What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Learning & Development position at Swiss RE?
About the Role:
You will be designing a new learning strategy that'll help 14,000 people develop the capabilities and skills needed to bring business strategy to life. You will lead a lean, but award-winning team of experts to design a learning architecture for Swiss Re Group. All of this, while choosing where and how you work.
You will be an SVP-level role with a mandate to revamp and re-design our approach towards Learning & Development based on our business strategy, the best practices in the industry and the latest market trends. You will also be the decision-maker on our learning infrastructure, ensuring that it remains at par with the best in the industry.
Key Responsibilities
- As a senior expert, you will understand the organisation's business strategy and design an appropriate learning and development architecture to support it
- You will lead and develop a team of consultants, and work collaboratively with other teams and vendors to support and land your strategy and bring it to life across Swiss Re
- As part of this effort, you will own, re-design, standardize and continually improve our existing learning portfolios and programmes and standards
- You will also influence, govern, and optimize (but not own) large-scale decentralized learning programmes that take place across the organisation, with a particular focus on consulting during strategic business transformations and the technical and non-technical capabilities derived from them
- You will develop a fit-for-purpose skills taxonomy for the organisation, collaborating with our broader team and other areas such as Strategic People Planning, while drawing on industry best practices
- Review and improve our approach to managing learning needs, our learning infrastructure, and our learning delivery to ensure that we embed learning in the flow of work for our people
- You will work with our broader team to re-design career development and growth, leverage the skills taxonomy and ensure that we have the best technology solutions to support a seamless learning experience for our people
About the Team:
Human Resources at Swiss Re is here to unlock the potential of our employees and to help bring our company vision - to make the work more resilient- to life. We partner with line managers and all employees by working as one integrated team to enable the delivery of sustainable business performance through people and foster a culture of performance where clear expectations result in accountability for outcomes.
We strive to enable Swiss Re to offer an environment where employees find purpose and can perform at their best thanks to an attractive, flexible, and inclusive work environment which adapts strategically to changing needs.
We're People Development (PD), a part of Group Human Resources at Swiss Re. We're the strategic consulting, design, and transformation arm of HR. We leverage thought leadership and the latest research to design and enhance our people and culture strategy and own a connected suite of processes and solutions as a lean, diverse, and global team
About You:
As an experienced consultant who has led or been part of HR CoEs, you're a naturally design and execution oriented professional. Leveraging innovative learning practices stimulates you, and you are great with prioritization and quick in delivering results. In addition, you're a confident communicator who can engage with senior leaders.
Essentials
- Minimum 10 years of experience in global HR CoEs, with a strong background in topics such as learning and development, strategic workforce planning, etc.
- Ability to navigate a global organisation, and quickly build relationships within the team and beyond, with significant stakeholder management experience
- Strong language skills – top-notch written (and spoken) English is a requirement
- A background in "new ways of learning" and traditional learning approaches, with a sound understanding of progressive learning trends, and technology supporting and driving learning
- Experience taking topics from ideation to executive proposals to a functioning strategy at pace, and guiding its implementation across a global organisation
- Excellent presentation skills (authoring and presenting) are a major plus
For Armonk, NY, the estimated base salary range for this position is $ to $. The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget. At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.
About Swiss Re
Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world.
Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.
Reference Code: 124999
Salary : $161,000 - $204,000
