Learning & Talent Partner

Key Responsibilities

• Regularly engage with key regional stakeholders to align the regional business priorities with the global learning and talent agenda.
• Develop and deploy clear and engaging regional and global communications plans with the global team.
• Review existing learning initiatives, analysing data to identify skills gaps and integrating findings into the global strategy and priorities, in close collaboration with HR Business Partners in the region.
• Design and deliver engaging and relevant learning solutions for diverse audiences as part of our Global Curricula, partnering with external suppliers where required and leveraging existing global and local content.
• Design and deliver plans for team development days to drive higher performance and build cohesive partnerships across the region.
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• Provide support to more junior members of the global team, facilitating their professional growth and role modelling high performance.
• Provide experienced project management support to a wide range of Global Learning and Talent projects, ensuring alignment with regional strategies and gaining buy-in from stakeholders.
• Draw insights from metrics to enhance learning and talent initiatives and to make commercial decisions about future investments, ensuring programmes and projects deliver value for money and are high impact.
• Hold regional budget management responsibility for the regional allocation of learning and talent costs, ensuring these are managed effectively in line with the overall Global Learning & Talent budget and process.
• Oversee contracting and negotiations with key external suppliers (delivery partners) in the region and on a global scale, in alignment with global and regional requirements.
• Provide regular progress reports and insights to regional and global leadership as required, using data to identify relevant skills development at the right time in a fee earners career.
  
  

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experienced learning and development professional (experience at Manager/ Business Partner level) with experience of working in professional services environments.
• Demonstrated skills in facilitating and designing learning curricula and a wide variety of development programmes using the most up to date methodologies and technologies, tailoring to specific audiences.
• Proven track record in partnering with external suppliers to source high quality learning solutions. Effectively managing these sometimes-complex relationships, giving regular feedback and making commercial decisions based on impact.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively managing and allocating budgets for learning and talent development initiatives.
• Prior experience of working with regional and global cross-functional teams in complex environments undergoing significant transformation and modernisation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to partner, advise and influence at all levels of business.
• Strategically minded with strong attention to detail.
• A self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable in working at pace in sometimes ambiguous situations with strong project management skills and a solution focused, pragmatic approach.
• Accreditation with psychometric tools is desirable, e.g. Discovery Insights, Hogan.
  
  

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.

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