Manager - Talent Acceleration Programmers - HR - Kuwait

Job Purpose: 

Leads the leadership development portfolio related to developing talent for future roles e.g. Grow with us, Alshaya Leadership Programme - focused on accelerating the potential of leaders in role.

Accountabilities (but not limited to):

Defining high level priorities and  solutions related to portfolio

• Works with head of leadership to define overall strategy for talent development to ensure impact. Design the high-level offering as the SME in this area – engages social learning to support in effective embedding and ongoing application beyond formal learning solutions.

Collaborating with stakeholder and the TX design team to build impactful solutions

• Works closely with design team to build and update required learning assets to support business impact.
• Works directly with the business as an SME to provide consulting supporting and to build understanding of organizational needs.

Facilitation of programmes / deploying performance support

• C 30% facilitation of key programmes focused at E and D population.
• Team development support to Top 700 teams.

Resource investigating / staying current on business needs and emerging trends for portfolio area

• Maintains SME status by staying close to external trends, works closely with vendors and external experts to bring the best practice into Alshaya.

Collaborating with wider T&D community in Alshaya to support portfolio area

• Active member of the T&D team and wider Alshaya Learning Community.

Upskilling T&D deployment team to support delivery of portfolio

• Ensure deployment team is fully equipped to achieve the desired business impact – accountable that their solutions can be effectively deployed.

Tools & Resources

• Accredited as a master facilitator in relevant solutions e.g. Core Strengths etc.
• Access to relevant content hubs and portals to facilitate ongoing self led development.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree.
• Fluent in English. Arabic is desirable. 
• MS Office.
• Collaboration, problem solving influencing and stakeholder management.
• Minimum on the job experience: 6 years in learning / talent development – 3 years in leadership development, specific experience of talent development.

Competencies – Functional (job specific):

• Adaptability: Can respond flexibility to customer requests enabling the organization to get the most from the development solutions available.
• Customer Orientation: Understands customer needs and can coach them to provide expert advice.
• Facilitation skills:  Able to facilitate senior team D-E.
• Communication & Presentation skills: Effective presenter, experienced running leadership development workshops.
• Questioning skills: Effective in questioning to diagnose needs.
• Coaching & Mentoring skills: Good coaching skills, able to mentor colleagues.
• Measure the effectiveness of learning solutions: Experienced in measuring key learning inputs and outputs, able to understand how impact is achieved through their solutions.
• Interpersonal skills: Able to build effective relationships as a trusted partner.

Work Context: 

• Solution high level design: Talent development addressing individual, team and organizational capabilities.
• Programme facilitation: C 30%.
• Communicating with Stakeholders, Peers, customers: Works with succession planning team and local HRVPs to identify target group for acceleration of potential to meet strategic workforce planning needs.
• Scope of work: Designing and deploying the solutions talent acceleration.