Learning Creative Development Manager

Job Title/Req Number: Learning Creative Development Manager (12 month FTC)

Base Location: London plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

The KPMG People function is a cornerstone of our business. Operating from London we do work that matters, serving the country with diligence and expertise.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies. We've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

By encompassing a wide range of disciplines across a breadth of areas such as Customer Experience and Digital, Strategy, Forensic, Risk and Regulatory, People and Talent, and Operational and Financial Transformation, we become immersed in our clients' organisations, applying sector knowledge and technology solutions to deliver the best possible outcomes and get it right first time.

Why Join KPMG as a Learning Creative Development Manager

Connected Learning is an integral part of KPMG’s Consultancy practice and a growing part of our business. It is an exciting capability area that seeks to tackle the full breadth of clients’ learning needs. Our work covers a whole spectrum of services at the scale and quality that the market is demanding. By closely monitoring market drivers and learning trends, we have combined a best of breed technology enabled platform with a modular approach, a library of re-usable digital content and a service delivery capability.

Our Connected Learning curriculum is designed to deliver more than just training. A core part of our offering is to help clients make the connection between what their workforce has in terms of measurable skills, what they don’t have and what they need to have. This helps clients to realise their immediate and future strategic business aims. We are investing in our Connected Learning team so that we can grow and service more clients and are looking for passionate and talented individuals to join us on this journey.

The Learning Content team design and develop a huge range of engaging, inclusive learning solutions for a wide client base across all sectors. From on demand context setting animations, inclusive digital learning and eye-opening podcasts, to facilitated in-person and virtual classrooms and action-orientated peer working sessions, we know learning. To help us continue to grow, we are looking for a Learning Creative Development Manager to join us.

What will you be doing?

• Manage a multidisciplinary on-shore and off-shore development team, responsible for creating engaging deliverables and utilising great visual design to equip learners with the right skills and knowledge when they need it most.
• Lead the development workstream of our largest engagements, working collaboratively with senior stakeholders to drive quality, standards, and inclusive design.
• Manage and support lead developers as they deliver during the development phase of each project, from scoping, to ensuring deliverables are developed to the agreed standards and meet all legal requirements for accessibility.
• Take ownership of the visual identity of projects, helping to scope the solution.
• Work closely with Delivery Managers, Senior Instructional Designers and Learning Services leadership to scope the development of solutions.
• Works with the management team to build capability and capacity across the team.
• Contribute on proposals and bids from a development and design perspective utilising professional design experience and how it aligns with the wider Learning Services business strategy.
• Works with the broader business to drive industry engagement and promote KPMG as a learning business.

What will you need to do it?

• Extensive experience in the learning industry, with proven experience leading large and complex projects running simultaneously.
• Strong proficiencies in rapid authoring tools such as Evolve, Storyline and Captivate.
• Experienced multi-media designer with strong proficiency in motion graphics, video editing, audio post-production, publishing tools and graphic design.
• Experienced in all aspects of accessibility, from online builds to PDFs and document accessibility.
• Able to lead, organise, mentor, and manage others across different time zones.
• Demonstrable stakeholder management skills with good communication skills both verbal and written.
• A strong attention to detail, proficient in reviewing deliverables, and ability to provide constructive feedback to colleagues to ensure a high-quality product.
• Strong engagement management skills including managing risk with clients, working to scope, and contributing to costings and assumptions for upcoming projects.
• Ability to support a team across different time zones and cultures and create a strategy to build a cohesive team of on-shore and off-shore developers.
• Understand engagement management and how to drive efficiencies in our costs and development approach that aligns with our commercial models.
• Develop strong client relationships and can effectively bring SME expertise to support solutions on proposals and bids.
• Understand different sector requirements for our learning solutions and can tailor the solution to their needs.
• Ability to create and implement the standards, processes, and level of quality that all learning deliverables will adhere to.
• Has a comprehensive and deep technical understanding of accessible and inclusive design and can set the standard for how all learning deliverables will meet legal requirements.
• Drive innovation and provide insight to the wider team and to clients on the future of learning and design of digital learning.
• Supports the Developer Capability Lead by maintaining quality and standards and driving the team’s upskilling and capability development.

To discuss this or wider Consulting roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.

Our Locations:

We are open to talk to talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are:

• Leeds
• London Canary Wharf

This position will largely be based from London.

With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

Find out more:

Within Consulting we have a range of divisions and specialisms. Click the links to find out more below:

• Consulting at KPMG: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/consulting/
• ITs Her Future Women in Tech programme: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/people-culture/it-s-her-future/
• KPMG Workability and Disability confidence: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/applying-to-kpmg/need-support-let-us-know/

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