Learning Solutions Project Manager

The Learning Project Manager’s responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Employing project management principles, processes, and tools to drive end-to-end delivery of learning solutions and projects – ensuring, e.g., communications, meeting notes/agendas, project plans, tasks, and agreed scope and/or scope changes are tracked and managed effectively.
• Applying instructional design and learning experience design processes – e.g., conducting learning needs analysis, and ensuring the design of activities, and assessments are appropriate and meet the needs of target audience/s.
• Managing the end-to-end vendor management process – from selection through to project delivery.
• Implementing evaluation methods to ensure that learning solutions efficacy and impact can be measured.
• Building and development of strong sustainable relationships with all internal and external stakeholders, working collaboratively with them to achieve common goals and share knowledge and best practice.
• Ensuring the legal, compliance, localization, and translation needs/requirement of learning solutions are met.

• Regularly reinforcing the need for the organization to consider Learning Needs at the earliest point possible when resolving any ‘business gaps’, ‘capability gaps’, and/or ‘skills gaps’, for example, when a large/small-scale organisational transformation is being planned or in progress.
• Conduct and document retrospective and/or lessons learned sessions at appropriate intervals across the delivery cycle of learning solutions & projects.
• Designing and delivering ‘Train-the-Trainer’ sessions, e.g., engagement, activation, and coordination of participants as well as session facilitators (virtual and/or physical).
• Staying up to date with the latest trends in Learning, Learning Technologies (especially, AI), Learning Assessments, Evaluations, etc.

Requirements & what you will bring to the role

The ideal candidate will have:

• A strong background in project management and experience in successfully delivering complex learning (or similar) solutions as well as managing multiple stakeholders, projects/solutions, tasks and accountabilities simultaneously
• Training, teaching, and/or ‘Train-the-Trainer’ experience
• Advanced comprehension of learning theory and practice
• Pharma and/or health care and/or commercial sector experience (distinct advantage)
• Excellent presentation and communication skills and can, for example, articulate suitable methods for engaging and activating target participants onto learning initiatives; interact with senior leaders and stakeholders across the organization, and resolve issues and challenges when/where they arise
• Experience working with learning management systems and/or learner experience platforms (distinct advantage)
• Vendor selection and management experience
• A Project Management accreditation, e.g., PMP / Agile / Scrum / PRINCE (distinct advantage)

• A Community of Practice mindset – engaging, leveraging and sharing best practices in areas such as, project management, learning experience design, and AI with direct team members and colleagues from the wider organisation
• Effective leadership skills with an ability to manage non-direct reports within a matrix organisation
• Experience with ambiguity, comfort with managing change and scope, and working with an agile/flexible mindset – adapting and growing to meet the evolving needs of the business.

Languages :

• Fluent written and spoken English (additional languages are advantageous)

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