Learning and Development Manager

What we are looking for

Were recruiting a fulltime Learning & Development Manager. You will lead all learning and development initiatives for the nearly 250 team members across the firm including our biannual performance management process. Outside of performance management your primary responsibility will be designing implementing and championing the Curriculum. You will work closely with the firms senior leadership including the Partners Chief People Officer Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. You will report to the Chief People Officer.

Were not a development firm and is not seeking typical development skills. We will look to you to lead and deliver a robust learning curriculum for all team members across the firm that will encourage their professional growth while improving their ability to deliver excellent work.

What does the job involve

• Lead the deployment of the newly established Curriculum.
  • Work directly with Group Partners and other members of Group leadership to revise existing created content to reflect bestinclass practices emerging thinking and senior leaderships evolving perspectives
  • Oversee all reading discussions led by senior leaders across the firm coordinating timing and sharing best practices across sessions
  • Direct all training delivered by external experts both through inperson training sessions and online selfdirected courses
  • Extract feedback on all content and trainings and continuously adapt the Curriculum to reflect that feedback
• Expand our Curriculum to establish platformspecific Curricula
• • Design the Curriculum for each of our Advisory Investment Management and company.
  • Work with platform leadership to determine the content needed for each platforms own Curriculum while ensuring all material complements the existing Group Curriculum
  • Direct the development of all platformspecific content partnering with members of platform leadership to capture our unique approach method or perspective
  • Assign and coordinate ownership among platform leadership of all content delivered by our team members
  • Identify trial and select third party providers for all training delivered by experts external to our organization
  • Communicate each platforms Curriculum to all platform team members in such a way that inspires engagement and excitement
  • Implement all platforms Curricula incorporating all content into our learning management system and managing delivery of all live content
• Lead the delivery of our biannual performance management process
  • Design and communicate the timeline for each twiceannual cycle working in close partnership with the Chief People Officer to detail each step
  • Define the Career Management Council for each batch of team members schedule all sessions and provide prep materials for each ahead of time
  • Facilitate all Career Management Council discussions ensuring consistent review by senior leadership within each batch of team members while balancing completeness with efficiency
  • Draft summary feedback for every team member following each cycles completion and ensure all feedback is shared
  • Serve as the point person for all information and access on Engagedly our performance management system
• Organize and execute biannual inperson Analyst Trainings and Leadership Trainings combining established Group and platformspecific Curricula
  • Develop detailed agendas for each training working closely with the Global Head of Administration to coordinate all logistics
  • Work directly with the Chief Financial Officer to ensure alignment with training budgets
  • Direct the delivery of all content managing internal owners and facilitators as well as external trainers to optimize team members participation and engagement
  • Act as the point person for each training communicating all information to attendees before and during the training
• Direct and facilitate all Curriculumbased content planned for biannual Summits firmwide offsite in partnership with the Chief Operating Officer
• Ensure all 200 team members progress against their Curriculum requirements
  • Manage all team members Curriculum requirements on an ongoing basis through our learning management system
  • Assign all required content to new hires and newly promoted team members and communicate directly with them to ensure they understand their responsibilities and are aware when they are off track
  • Work closely with the Chief People Officer to ensure all team members eligible for promotion complete their learning requirements on time
• Identify and implement new learning tools that expand team members skills and respond to teams requests for additional training

Qualifications

• Excellent project management skills; ability to juggle and deliver complex projects across contexts and geographies
• Excellent people skills; ability to compel and excite team members to prioritize their learning and development beyond their daytoday work
• Strong communication skills; ability to communicate and connect with the most senior and junior team members across the firm to deliver on ones objectives
• Ability to think creatively to develop solutions and tools that work for team members with varied experience spread across continents
• Entrepreneurial mindset to creatively and independently solve new problems with no established paths or proven solutions

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and other benefits