Senior Manager: Leadership Learning and Development

Discovery People Senior Manager: Leadership Development and Learning

About Discovery

Discoverys core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fast-paced and dynamic environment enables smart, self-driven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.

Key Purpose

To support the design and development of learning and leadership solutions to ensure that Discovery talent develop the skills and competencies to fulfil short and long term business needs.

Areas of responsibility may include but are not limited to

• Develop insights from data and events and use this to support the development of learning and leadership capability solutions.
• Support the development of best in class learning and leadership capability solutions.
• Collaborate with expertise pillars to share current thinking, best practice and ideas to generate the best possible learning and leadership solutions.
• To network with external specialists, communities of practice and academic institutions to identify global Learning and Leadership development themes and issues.
• Support and lead the implementation of new programmes or changes to existing programmes.
• Continually assess and evaluate the costs and benefits of Learning and Leadership development programmes and recommend changes as appropriate.
• To ensure that the systems, processes, policies and tools meet audit requirements and reporting standards
• Support the design of interventions to ensure all managers have appropriate skills as individuals and as leaders to fulfil the organisations strategic ambitions.

Key Competency Areas

Strategy, Insights and Solutions:

• Networks with experts and communities of practice externally to understand current trends and innovations and develop shared insights and priorities.
• Evaluates impact and results of Learning and Leadership Development programmes to ensure these meet organisation needs
• Articulates HR Learning and Leadership Development priorities at all levels: Metrics, business updates, emerging business needs or share best practice.
• Considers the bigger picture at all times, observing connections, and draw conclusions about the impact of events and activities on each other

Learning And Capability Development

• Uses Business knowledge and skills gap diagnostic tools to assess the overall current and future Learning and Leadership Development requirements across the organisation. Determines short-, medium- and long-term strengths, gaps and needs.
• Uses internal and external insight to have a deep understanding of the required skills and capabilities to retain a competitive edge.
• Executes regular skills identification exercises across the organisation
• Ensures that business Learning teams & HRBPs understand and are fully engaged with skills identification and the development planning processes.
• Executes mapping exercises with external suppliers to determine potential skills shortages that need to be developed internally

Designing Learning and Development Solutions

• Designs and develops learning and leadership development interventions, collaborating internally and externally to incorporate relevant theories and models
• Works with Learning and Leadership development team to use leading edge interventions and adult learning and leadership theory /methodologies, to innovate on current thinking for Learning programmes
• Works with subject matter experts and takes the instructional design lead in the development of programmes.
• Uses external relationships to gain new insight on best practice interventions in the external marketplace and the evolution of profession
• Designs an appropriate blend of education, face-to-face training, experiential learning, e-learning, coaching and mentoring that are relevant to the learning styles of diverse groups.

Delivering Learning and Development Solutions

• Demonstrates advanced facilitation skills and can build this capability in others
• Facilitates learning events and workshops, delivering content as appropriate
• Ensures Learning Management programmes and communications are consistently activated across all Discovery companies

Supplier Management

• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with suppliers for learning events/programmes
• Manage third-party learning and leadership development suppliers against agreed standards, contracts or service-level agreements
• Manages some external learning vendor relationships.

Evaluation And Measurement Of Programmes

• Evaluates and continuously improves Learning and Leadership development processes and solutions to ensure that they deliver the intended outcomes using insight and feedback from HRBPs and pillar expertise leads
• Assesses and evaluates the costs and benefits of global Learning and Leadership Development programmes and recommends changes to improve business performance
• Demonstrates tangible business and performance benefits from pilots of learning interventions, and uses this data to communicate advantages to the business
• Develops processes to evaluate how the organisation's learning and capability plan is impacting the business. Uses feedback to identify gaps or unintended consequences
• Ensure Learning and Leadership development programmes are regularly refreshed

Organisation Development

• Embeds the Discovery values, leadership charter and behavioural standards into the organisation through Learning and Leadership development programmes
• Supports Capability change programmes by working with pillar expertise teams to ensure they fully understand the rationale behind the programmes
• Anticipates obstacles with dynamic learning and leadership landscape and proactively works to remove them
• Uses analysis of data to measure progress against the planned business case for change, for a global learning programme. Uses this to influence discussion as to next steps with Learning Expertise Leadership
• Understands the rationale behind capability change programmes and is able to communicate this to pillar expertise teams.
• Builds own capability in core change philosophies and coaching practices

Personal Attributes And Skills

Personally credible: Builds and delivers professionalism through combining commercial and HR expertise to bring value to the organisation, stakeholders and peers:

• Considers how best to add value and ensures own expertise is sufficiently developed to do so.
• Shows enthusiasm to broaden own experience, knowledge, skills and self-insight
• Passes on own skills to others, sharing knowledge and experience readily.
• Accepts and acts on feedback on own performance, reacting appropriately to both constructive criticism and praise.
• Offers sensible, impartial advice and is considered as wise counsel.

Role Model: Acts with integrity, impartiality and independence, balancing personal, organisation and legal parameters.

• Has a deep sense of own core values and operates within personal boundaries.
• Consistently acts according to organisational and legal principles and agreed processes
• Delivers to expectations and promises
• Accepts responsibility and takes remedial and developmental action when mistakes are made.
• Deals with personal data and information in a highly professional manner and within the boundaries of relevant legislation.

Education And Experience

• Relevant 3 year degree and / or post graduate qualification

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people living with disabilities to apply.

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The Companys approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.