What are the responsibilities and job description for the Global Learning and Talent Development Leader position at Sylvamo?
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Location: Memphis, TN
Purpose:
Strategic partner within OD/TM and for global HR to enhance the organization’s workforce capabilities, align learning initiatives with business goals and drives leadership and organizational effectiveness. Ensures that the organization’s learning and development efforts are strategic, effective, and aligned with its global business needs. Leads L&D initiatives, with a heavy focus on Leadership Development and when required, contributes to broader TM/OD initiatives related to culture, engagement and organizational development to strengthen overall impact. This is a hybrid role, following Sylvamo’s work-flex schedule (3 days onsite in office).
Role Responsibilities:
The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Sylvamo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Come grow with us!
Location: Memphis, TN
Purpose:
Strategic partner within OD/TM and for global HR to enhance the organization’s workforce capabilities, align learning initiatives with business goals and drives leadership and organizational effectiveness. Ensures that the organization’s learning and development efforts are strategic, effective, and aligned with its global business needs. Leads L&D initiatives, with a heavy focus on Leadership Development and when required, contributes to broader TM/OD initiatives related to culture, engagement and organizational development to strengthen overall impact. This is a hybrid role, following Sylvamo’s work-flex schedule (3 days onsite in office).
Role Responsibilities:
- Leads the Global L&D Strategy and Governance:
- Strategy design and governance:
- Ensures local/regional programs are aligned with the global strategy and framework, processes, programs, and initiatives.
- Ensure mechanisms are in place to evaluate the effectiveness of L&D initiatives to meet desired outcomes.
- Ensures learning solutions meet the unique needs of a global workforce, considering cultural and regional differences, allowing appropriate flexibility.
- Enables HR partners to lead learning & development assessments and strategies for their respective functions and businesses.
- Develops and maintains tools, templates, and standards to ensure high quality and relevance of training programs.
- Owns the global learning systems strategy, including LMS, LCMS, and other platforms / tools that enable learning delivery and tracking.
- Establishes a measurement strategy so all L&D solutions have measures of success in place.
- Assures global alignment, consistency, and sustainability of the implemented solutions.
- Establishes and leads Community of Practices, as needed, and maintains strong relationships to leverage best practices, L&D expertise, collaboration and identify synergies.
- Partnering & Enablement:
- Partner to HR partners / business leaders in the development and updating of L&D strategies that support the organization’s overall objectives and growth plans.
- Provides L&D related consultancy to managers, HR Professionals, and other stakeholder groups as needed to facilitate identification of adequate learning solutions.
- Provides specialized knowledge to ensure that training programs are effective.
- Reinforces building the skills and competencies needed for the organization to succeed in the long term.
- Program Ownership & Project Leadership:
- Serves as process owner and project manager leading cross-functional (business partners, Global Sourcing, Finance, HR, IT) project teams to develop and implement key L&D projects and initiatives, and other organizational effectiveness strategies with a particular focus on Leadership Development.
- Support and/or lead, when needed, other TM/OD initiatives related to culture, engagement, and organizational development to ensure integrated solutions across the employee experience.
- Program Design & Delivery:
- Creates & delivers required L&D solutions / program (i.e. training, facilitation) to dedicated audience addressing the identified objectives.
- Facilitates training sessions, workshops, and seminars, both in-person and virtually.
- Systems, Platforms & Vendor Management:
- Identifies opportunities for optimization and implements solutions that enhance user experience and learning effectiveness related to LMS usage and other learning platforms/software.
- Works with vendors/consultants for advanced solutions and creates service agreements, contracts, project plans and manages vendor performance against goals.
- Measurements, Effectiveness & Continuous Improvement:
- Leverages L&D data, metrics, stakeholder feedback and external best practices/trends to continuously improve global L&D strategy and related development solutions to maximize organizational effectiveness.
- Stays up to date with the latest trends and new learning technologies and methodologies to keep the organization at the forefront of industry trends and continuously improve training programs.
- BA or BS degree in a relevant field such as organizational development, organizational psychology or industrial-organizational psychology, instructional technology, educational technology, human resources or business management. Master’s Degree in Learning Design and Development or Human Resources is preferred.
- 10 years of work experience with career progression in the field of learning, development and training, L&D strategy development and execution, or strategic human resources in large organizations preferably in manufacturing.
- 5 years management/leadership experience.
- Foundational knowledge and experience in broader talent management and organizational development strategies i.e. change management, performance management and improvement, career development, organizational culture, etc.
- Project Management, stakeholder management, change management and effective communication leadership on large scale initiatives.
- Successful program design, development and implementation for a diverse audience crossing many cultures and languages.
- Industry certifications in instructional design, curriculum development, project management or change management certifications would be an asset.
- Ability to solve complex problems while delivering simple solutions, analytical and strategic thinking, ensure strategic alignment of solutions.
- Works effectively in ambiguous situations by engaging stakeholders, fostering open dialogue, and building consensus to clarify priorities and drive aligned decisions.
- Ability to translate learning theory and concepts to real-world situations in a relevant and practical way to be applicable in both office and manufacturing realities.
- Ability to accommodate periodic overnight travel.
- Courageous
- Entrepreneurial
- Agile
- Inclusive and Collaborative
- Analytical & Data-Driven Decision Making
The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.
Sylvamo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.