Associate Director - Learning & Development

Job Description

Associate Director - Learning & Development

• Strategy Planning and Execution:
  -  Develop annual and long term training plan and initiatives in line with the relevant business objectives.
  -  Enabling / Supporting Financial Performance by focusing / driving training interventions and joint field work with sales colleagues to improve their in-clinic effectiveness.
  - Formulate and manage training budget and resources in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.
• Capability Development:
  - Build / design innovative training programs to improve knowledge and skill quotient for field colleagues.
  - Execute training programs in line with adult learning principles and newer ways of interactive trainings.
  • Set up systems and processes for contonious feedback to determine gaps and next step planning for capability enhancement requirements.
  • Devise metrics for measurement of training programs to track progress of colleagues.
    - Partner with cross functional groups in the organization for successful business salience and become a strong enabler of business growth via training interventions.
• Business Partnership and Collaboration:
  - Alignment with BU priorities, leverage expertise of commercial operations and other support functions to enhance the engagement and development of sales team.
  - Collaborate with other learning teams in APAC and Global for learning intervention approvals and execute exemplified learnings from other countries.
  • Closely work with SFE & BPO teams on prioritizing organizational objectives while designing the programs accordingly.
  • Identify right partners / external facilitators / stakeholders to colaborate for newer training methods and practices and stronger facilitation.

• Training Content Design:
  - Enable innovative thinking for new age content design for shorter and smarter learning adaptability of colleagues.
  • Ensure consistent quality of content and facilitation with up-to-date business needs and industry standards
• People Management:
  - Participate in the recruitment process of the L&D team, allocate target objectives, track, monitor, review and guide performance, in order to achieve L&D objectives through a motivated team.
  - Review talent within the team, provide developmental feedback, suggest training programs and work on individual development plan of each team member.
  - Build collaboration, communication, open interaction and share best practices amongst the team.
• Qualifications:
  • Graduate + MBA (preferred) with overall 10+ years of total experience or 5+ years of management consulting experience (5+ years in people management preferred).
  • Experience in Training and Development in parallel pharma or consumer facing industries such as FMCG / Med Devices / Banking.

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