Job Description | Position Name- Learning & Leadership Development Manager

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 733,000 people serving clients worldwide, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Corporate Functions:

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Job Summary:

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Learning & Development Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive learning programs that align with the organization's strategic objectives. This role will benefit from comfort in  facilitation across a wide range of topics, strong decision-making capabilities, and the ability to independently manage a learning function for a given business unit.

Key Responsibilities:               

Incumbent’s responsibilities – Work with leadership, partners and stakeholders to ensure that learning outcomes are driven as per business objectives. This includes managing relationships with business leadership and employees to understand their needs and constraints, working with stakeholders to ensure learning objectives are met, communicating with them to drive this change and demonstrating performance improvements through output and throughput measures.

·       Design and deliver engaging training programs on various topics to meet the needs of employees at all levels.

·       Conduct needs assessments and identify skill gaps to tailor learning initiatives accordingly.

·       Develop learning related pitches/ materials such as presentations, manuals, and multimedia visual aids.

·       Evaluate the effectiveness of training programs through feedback and metrics analysis.

·       Collaborate with department heads and stakeholders to ensure training initiatives support business objectives.

·       Stakeholder management, client calls and client presentations would be a critical role for this candidate to play, as our customers are spread internally and externally. Candidate should be flexible and be able to maintain continuum to client calls and collaboration platforms.

·       Make informed decisions regarding learning methodologies, technologies, and instructional techniques.

·       Stay updated with industry trends and best practices in L&D to continuously improve training programs.

·       Manage budgets, resources, and external partnerships related to learning and development programs.

·       Support organizational change efforts by providing training and resources to help employees adapt effectively.

·       Oversee MD&I budget requirements for all relevant capability development funding. Respond to reporting-related tasks and track spend on a monthly basis.

·       Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional development within the organization.

·       Program management of Niche/standard initiatives

Job Qualifications

• Excellent ability to execute plans - Strong analytical skills planning and organizing capability
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills
• Flexible in taking up responsibilities utilizing a variety of skills. Comfortable with ambiguity
• Very Good oral and written communication skills required
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills
• Strong conceptual skills – should be able to synthesize and develop training frameworks and content
• Post graduate degree in HR or Management | Work Experience: 14+ years of relevant experience

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU:

• You’ll benefit from our network of global communities and collaborative culture that will help you build technical and functional skills and capabilities.  And because we serve more than 40 industries globally, you’ll have the opportunity to develop valuable industry-specific expertise.
• The scale of our capabilities and client engagements—and the unique way we innovate, operate and deliver value—will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest technology trends. 

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 742,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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