Sr Learning and Development Consultant

About the company:

NIIT is a leading Skills and Talent Development Corporation building a workforce pool for global industry requirements. The company, set up in 1981 to help the nascent IT industry overcome its human resource challenges, today ranks among the world’s leading training companies owing to its vast, yet comprehensive array of talent development programs. With a footprint across 40 nations, NIIT offers training and development solutions to Individuals, Enterprises, and Institutions.

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Job Title: Senior Learning and Capability Development Partner / Senior Consultant (NIIT)

Location: UK Remote – travel to Derby and London offices when required

The Position

As a Senior Consultant, specialized in Learning and Capability Development, at NIIT MTS, you will lead the design and implementation of top-tier learning initiatives by leveraging the capabilities of the NIIT Center of Excellence teams directly. You\’ll play a pivotal role in aligning learning portfolios with strategic business objectives, ensuring continuous improvement and business relevance. Join us today and be part of shaping the future of organizational learning.

In addition to a competitive remuneration package, here’s what working at NIIT MTS can offer you:

• Global Collaboration, Diverse Perspectives: Become part of a truly global team with consultants spanning Europe, the US, and India. Work alongside diverse, experienced consultants who are ready to share their insights and coach you to excellence. Conversely, you will be encouraged to leverage your uniqueness and coach others.
• Agile Growth, Endless Possibilities: NIIT\’s Consulting team is on a fast-paced, agile trajectory. As a member, you\’ll have the chance to leave your mark, contributing to our ascent as a key player in the L&D consulting industry. Enjoy the flexibility to organize your work and steer your own growth path, supported by coaching and mentorship that empowers you to thrive.
• Flexibility at its Core: Embrace a work environment tailored to your needs. Our team operates fully remotely, with the option to work from an office if available in your country. While you may be asked to travel occasionally, our flexible working arrangement allows you to enjoy the freedom to balance your professional and personal life, creating a work setup that suits you best.
• Holistic Learning Experience: Step into a role that goes beyond traditional consulting. NIIT MTS is a full-service firm, offering exposure to all facets of L&D. Your journey with us ensures a comprehensive understanding, putting you in a prime position to advise clients and make a real impact on their learning strategies.
• Broad Industry Exposure: Dive into a diverse portfolio of clients spanning Aerospace and Aviation, Banking and Financial Services, Consumer Products and Retail, Insurance, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Mining, Technology, and Telecom. Gain insights into multiple industries, allowing you the flexibility to specialize in areas that resonate with your passion.

We look forward to welcoming you as a vital part of our dynamic team, where growth, flexibility, and excellence are the cornerstones of our work culture.

You will be responsible for

Strategic Alignment: Aligning learning strategies with organizational capabilities involves ensuring that learning initiatives are closely aligned with the existing and future capabilities required by the organization to achieve its strategic objectives. This includes assessing organizational needs, identifying learning priorities, and developing targeted interventions to address capability gaps effectively.

New Learning Solutions Development: Consultancy for new learning solutions deployment entails providing expert advice and support for the development and implementation of learning solutions within the organization. This includes assessing learning needs, identifying appropriate interventions, and co-creating the product scoping with internal design centre of expertise teams (build, borrow/bot-curate, buy strategy) and leading the product development process aligned with the product strategy as well as supporting the execution and rollout of learning initiatives to ensure successful adoption and impact.

Project Management for Product Development: Project management for learning initiatives involves applying Agile methodology based project management principles to plan, execute, monitor, and control new learning projects. Agile methodology in learning design and project management emphasizes iterative development, collaboration, and flexibility to respond to changing learner needs and business requirements effectively. This includes defining project objectives, creating project plans, aligning NIIT Centre of Expertise teams and leading agile teams, removing impediments, and ensuring successful and efficient delivery of high-quality learning outcomes within scope, schedule, and budget constraints.

Performance Consultancy: Performance Consultancy for the new learning projects involves assessing and evaluating the effectiveness and impact of learning initiatives and programs on learner performance, knowledge acquisition, skill development, and behavior change is a critical responsibility. This entails defining performance metrics and indicators, collecting and analyzing data on learning outcomes and achievements, measuring the ROI and business impact of learning investments, and leveraging performance measurement insights to inform continuous improvement and decision-making in learning design and delivery.

Portfolio Management: Ensure that the strategic capability aligned portfolios maintain dynamism while aligning them with the E-W Strategy to drive impactful business outcomes. This includes strategically aligning learning portfolios with customer business priorities, continuously curating catalogues to ensure relevance and incorporating industry trends, utilizing data and analytics to evaluate performance and make informed decisions, fostering stakeholder engagement to ensure alignment with business goals.

Customer Experience Management: Customer experience management in learning programs involves managing and cultivating relationships with internal and external stakeholders involved in or impacted by learning initiatives. Customer experience in learning projects involves identifying, engaging, and communicating with customers/stakeholders involved in learning programs. This includes understanding stakeholder needs, soliciting feedback, and addressing concerns to ensure stakeholder buy-in and support throughout the program lifecycle.

Quality Management: Quality management in learning service delivery focuses on ensuring that learning services and programs meet established quality standards and expectations. This involves defining quality criteria, monitoring service delivery against these standards, and continuously improving service quality to deliver value to stakeholders.

Risk Management: Risk management in learning projects focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks associated with learning initiatives. This involves analyzing potential threats and opportunities, developing risk response strategies, and implementing contingency plans to minimize project disruptions and maximize success.

You will add value by

• Solving Complex Problems: Address complex business challenges that span process, people, and technology domains, fostering synergistic solutions that drive organizational success.
• Delivering Excellence: Consistently produce high-quality work while actively collaborating with peers to create and deliver an exceptional client experience.
• Bringing a Global Perspective: Employ a broad and diverse perspective to adeptly solve problems, integrating a global outlook to generate innovative solutions.
• Utilizing Industry Insights: Leverage your business, industry, and sector trend knowledge to advise on the potential impacts on a customer business trajectory.
• Driving Thought Leadership: Construct and contribute to pioneering thought leadership content through conducting research and sharing insights with our client.
• Supporting Decision-making by Utilizing Data-Driven Insights: Utilize data analyses and translate insights into well-informed recommendations that strategically shape and support the customer learning and development strategy.

What we ask of you

• Prior experience in consulting services strongly preferred.
• Strong expertise in performance analysis and learning evaluation and transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage complex projects.
• Comfortable with navigating ambiguity.
• Available and open to travel when requested.
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Proven track record of building and maintaining client relationships.
• Experience in Agile project management and leading cross-functional teams within SCRUM framework.
• Deep understanding of AI technologies and their applications in learning
• Preferably, C2* proficiency in reading, listening, speaking, and writing in German

Education & Qualifications

• BSc/BA in relevant field & 8-10 years of relevant work experience
• Preferably certification in project management and Agile methodologies.

*NIIT is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. *