Lead Consultant Learning - Cbnz

Rabobank is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients.

Our purpose is clear: we enable our clients to feed the world sustainably. Our commitment to our employees and customers is at the heart of everything we do.

Job Overview/Purpose:

As an impactful Senior Learning Consultant CBNZ working within the HR team NZ, and the regional People, Culture and Talent Team, you will lead the learning and development advice and solutions, including technical capability for our people in Country Banking New Zealand (CBNZ) community and wider NZ business.

Through our Australia & New Zealand Rabobank business & people strategy framework we implement value add solutions, practices and processes that facilitate the achievement of the organisations goals. Conducting learning needs analysis, solution design, program development and facilitation and coaching of Learning & Development programs to address business, performance, team and capability gaps within our business units and teams. Advise the business on training plans, communication & prioritisation.

Context of Job:

The HR NZ team delivering on the People Plan for NZ across HR, learning and development. People, Talent and Culture sits within the wider RANZ Human Resources Division.

The team oversees a number of key functions including: learning support and initiatives; development of leadership capability of our people; development of technical capability of our people; strategic planning for our workforce; embedding the principles of diversity & inclusion throughout the organisation. In undertaking these activities, the team contributes to a number of the key strategic priorities of Regional, Australia and New Zealand including “Empower employees who live the standards”, “Leverage our knowledge and network to drive our impact” and “Being commercial and in control (everyone, at all levels)”.

The Senior Learning Consultant CBNZ will make a valuable contribution to the team’s activities, in particular those that relate to learning initiatives.

Country Banking NZ employees located in Regional offices (Agribusiness Analysts, Area Administration Analyst and Agribusiness Associates) deal with a number of systems and processes in their day to day work and these areas have been identified as a key need for ongoing up-skilling.

There are a number of systems development changes underway that will have a learning and upskill component to them. Changes are driven and managed from projects generally based outside New Zealand and this role will need to be across these updates on behalf of the NZ business.

Employees work with and in principle collaborate nationally to support a large network with a total staff number of approximately 521 employees in Rabobank New Zealand.

The challenge of the role is to enhance staff systems skills/knowledge and end to end process skills to deliver improved efficiencies for our clients.

The role will involve extensive travel with several days stay in offices/regions across NZ throughout the year. There may also be some travel to Australia.

The Senior Learning Consultant CBNZ will have sound training, facilitation and delivery skills. It is preferable the Senior Learning Consultant CBNZ has several years' experience in banking sector in a similar role delivering training.

Deep existing knowledge of the CBNZ Agri banking roles requirements and familiarity with our clients, culture and practices would be invaluable in gaining trust and having influence at the office/regional level and be a key factor in successful transfer of the training contents/knowledge. Sound knowledge of Country Banking skills, processes and systems supports capability solutions with the right outcomes.

This role will close Thursday 5 December 2024

Rabobank believe embracing inclusion, equity and belonging delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here.

At Rabobank New Zealand, we are committed to our values; we are client-driven, we take responsibility, we are professional and cooperative. We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, sex/sex characteristics, gender (Inclusive of all genders), gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability, age, or other diversity characteristics not mentioned. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Together, we can grow a better world.