Associate Director - Learning & Development - FMCG/BFSI

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 continuous 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 collaborate 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.