Learning & Development Partner (Maternity Cover)
Location: Bishopsgate, London (Hybrid)
About Us
McCann Worldgroup, part of the Interpublic Group, is one of the world's largest marketing communications networks. Our operations are united across 100+ countries by a single mission: to help brands play a meaningful role in people's lives. This commitment focuses on creating work that earns a role in people's lives by being interesting, evocative, and useful. It's powerful and effective creativity that helps clients grow their brands and businesses.
We're now looking for a Learning & Development Partner in London. The main role is to support the design and delivery of the learning and development strategy for the UK and Europe region. This is achieved by designing, delivering, and coordinating a mixture of high-quality learning and development interventions to meet the diverse needs of the region and to consistently develop and grow our people in alignment with their development needs and organizational goals.
The scope of work includes ideation, design, delivery, and coordination of virtual or in-person training solutions, online and other learning interventions in collaboration with other L&D team members, relevant stakeholders, and external partners.
The Part You'll Play as Learning & Development Partner
- Ensuring the delivery and effective coordination of existing L&D programs.
- Building and implementing a comprehensive employee upskilling and MH & Wellness learning calendar.
- Ideating, developing, and implementing various L&D interventions (outsourced and/or in-house).
- Partnering and working closely with key stakeholders (HRDs, HR teams, Learning Ambassadors, global L&D team etc.) to understand L&D challenges, needs, and wants and help create effective and successful learning and development solutions.
- Designing and delivering live, virtual, and blended learning workshops, trainings, and other presentations.
- Developing, designing, and curating online content.
- Driving innovation and best practices in how we deliver learning to anyone, anywhere.
- Identifying and utilizing current learning vendors and exploring new external partnerships to ensure best learning experiences for our employees.
- Working with Associate Director, Learning & Development - UK & Europe, to negotiate best prices and work with external training and other providers to deliver most effective learning solutions.
- Ensuring effective, clear, and engaging communication of the L&D programs and other L&D interventions.
- Measuring the success and assessing the impact of regional L&D programs and other L&D interventions and reporting it to McCann Worldgroup agencies or other relevant stakeholders.
- Supporting Associate Director, Learning & Development - UK & Europe in conducting training needs analysis in and identifying skill or knowledge gaps.
- Partnering with agencies on various L&D enquiries, requests and different add hock learning solutions.
- Providing excellent customer service and motivating employees to engage with L&D activities.
- Partnering with Associate Director, Learning & Development - UK & Europe to continuously improve L&D processes and practices.
- Staying up to date on and practicing progressive L&D interventions and emerging practices and providing creative ideas how these could be successfully tailored and applied in MW learning environment.
- Working closely with the global L&D team to ensure alignment, effective L&D delivery for the region, sharing best practices and supporting the global initiatives.
- Supporting Associate Director, Learning & Development - UK & Europe in delivering Management & Leadership and Mentoring & Coaching Academy interventions.
- Monitoring L&D expenses in collaboration with the finance team.
- Tracking and managing the L&D budget.
This is just a snapshot of the many things you'll be involved with at McCann. It's a varied role in an ever-changing environment, where we can promise that no two days will be the same.
- Advanced organizational, time management and planning skills.
- Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and prioritization skills.
- Ability to complete full training cycle: assess needs, plan, develop, communicate, train or coordinate, monitor, evaluate andimprove.
- A high comfort level with public speaking and presenting to large groups of people while encouraging engagement and participation.
- Engaging presentation and verbal as well as written communication skills.
- Proficiency in creating PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations.
- Communicating clearly and knowledgeably with stakeholders, learners, and colleagues.
- Being proactive and able to act on own initiative.
- Ability to design a high-quality content (training and online).
- Creativity in all aspects of L&D.
- Delivering the role with consciousness of the budget and with an emphasis on cost effectiveness.
If this sounds of interest, we'd love to hear from you. Share your CV below!
Diversity & Inclusion:
At McCann Worldgroup, we believe that Diversity & Engagement are foundational to achieving our mission of helping brands play a meaningful role in people's lives. As a globally integrated community that influences and shapes culture, our talent must reflect the multicultural marketplace we serve. And we know that when employees of all socially and culturally diverse backgrounds and identities feel empowered to share their unique perspectives at work - game-changing and market-leading ideas come to life. To that end, and in service to cultivating such empowerment, we strive to create the conditions that foster a sense of connection, belonging and shared purpose among those who come to work in our agencies.
We do this by developing internal and external global initiatives to reach our goal of embedding inclusive practices into everyday business decisions and interactions. Our efforts include, but are not limited to:
1) Leveraging strategic partnerships to source and create a pipeline of diverse talent.
2) Curating bespoke programs and events to engage emerging diverse talent.
3) Utilizing proprietary tools to mitigate bias during the recruiting process.
4) Providing our hiring managers and recruiters diversity training as well as effective talent acquisition tools.
5) Supporting internal affinity groups and external community programs serving marginalized groups, and much more.
McCann helps brands build the most meaningful brand platforms that drive exponential growth and leave a lasting impact on culture. Founded 100+ years ago with their own platform, "Truth Well Told", McCann is the world's leading advertising agency network, creating some of the most creatively and commercially impactful advertising globally. McCann is the founding unit of McCann Worldgroup marketing services company, part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG).