Chief Manager - Learning and Development

Organization Context Position Title: Lead – Leadership & Professional Skills Development Reports To: Head – Talent, Learning and Culture Location: Gurgaon
A. Job Purpose
• The incumbent would be responsible for shaping and executing Air India’s leadership and professional development strategy. This role shall ensure that leaders at all levels are equipped to drive a high-performance, people-centric culture.
• The incumbent shall also enable professional skills development of Air India employees to make them more productive & effective in their roles
• The role entails diagnosing learning needs, designing and executing impactful learning / capability development interventions to scale, collaborate with key internal & external stakeholders to build immediate & long-term capability across the organization

B. Key Accountabilities
• Lead design & implementation of overall Leadership Development strategy & initiatives / programs, aligned with business priorities and leveraging relevant learning methodologies for leaders and people managers across levels
• Design & implement capability development programs for special talent groups like High Potentials, Critical role successors, women leaders etc.
• Develop professional skills based on Air India’s competencies or otherwise to enable Air India employees to be more effective & productive individuals, thus succeeding in their roles and getting ready for future roles
• Leverage interventions like learning journeys, immersions, coaching / mentoring programs, projects, feedback etc. to build capabilities in a sustainable way
• Assist in developing a learning culture in the organisation
• Plan and manage budgets optimally
• Calendarize interventions and communicate the same to all stakeholders
• Define, track and assess measures of success / impact of different learning interventions
• Engage senior business and HR leaders to identify capability gaps and co-create impactful learning solutions.
• Partner with HRBP colleagues across the life cycle of interventions. Collaboration is key in this role
• Build a strong learning partner ecosystem and partner with them to build required organisation capabilities
• Leverage digital learning tools & new-age methodologies (blended learning, simulations, social learning, etc.) to enhance leadership and professional skills.
• Assess, develop and implement leadership development processes, tools, resources, solutions, and organization development interventions to achieve the overarching goals of the organization.
• Lead the team and provide direction on execution / implementation of tasks by prioritizing functional and organizational goals accordingly.
• Support, nurture, and develop the team members’ skills in all relevant aspects.

C. Skills Required for the role
- Learning intervention design / ID
- Expertise in leadership development models, methods etc
- Leadership & people management skills
- Project Management Skills
- Digital acumen
- Facilitation skills
- Content Creation skills
- Business acumen
- Partner Management skills
- Collaboration skills
- Strategic mindset
- Internal client relationship management skills

D. Key Interfaces Internal Interfaces Leadership Teams
• Work with Senior business and HR leadership to partner for their & their teams’ development HR CoEs
• Partner with other HR CoEs like talent management, performance & rewards etc. to create linkage of the leadership & professional skills development programs External Interfaces Learning partners
• Evaluate and onboard learning partners
• Assess their performance and outcomes of their interventions Industry associations
• To stay abreast with what’s current in industry & domain

E. Educational and Experience Requirements
Minimum Education requirements
• Masters/MBA/PGDM/PGP/PG degree/diploma in Personnel/Human Resource Management from a premier institution
• Relevant professional certifications shall be an added advantage

Experience
• 12-15 yrs’ experience with significant focus in leadership development, learning journeys & capability building
• Rich experience in leveraging different leadership & professional skills development methods, coaching models, OB / OD interventions, AC/DC & digital learning tools