Finance Capability & Learning Project Lead

Experis; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global organization in the role of Finance Capability & Learning Project Lead. This position entails managing innovative finance learning programs while working with senior stakeholders and leveraging adult learning principles. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic environment, contribute to strategic initiatives, and enhance the skills of finance professionals aiming for leadership roles.

Qualifications

• Experience in learning and development, ideally in large organizations.
• High proficiency in managing and delivering complex training projects.
• Familiarity with adult learning theories and various learning formats.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of finance capability learning programs.
• Coordinate senior stakeholders and manage content production for training.
• Analyze data to measure learning impact and adjust programs accordingly.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Influencing & Stakeholder Management

Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

Consumer Centric Mindset

Education

Professional HR/Learning & Development Certification

Learning Design Certification

Project Management Certification

Coaching Certification

Tools

Learning Management Systems (LMS)

Learning Experience Platforms (LXP)

Digital learning authoring tools (Articulate 360)

Job description

Job Title: Finance Capability & Learning Project Lead

Contract Length: Six month

Location: London (Hybrid)

At Philip Morris International (PMI), we're totally transforming our business, and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to improve the lives of a billion smokers worldwide. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you'll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

The scale of our transformation means we're effectively building a vast new business, at pace. In Finance, giving our people the tools and support to continue to evolve as coaches to the business who shape and influence business decisions with their challenge and insight, is key to creating value and driving for a stronger smoke-free future. In the SFS Capability Team we are building the capabilities of the future with innovative, forward looking and integrated approaches to capability transformation.

It's an exciting, ever-changing environment. If you're comfortable with ambiguity and excited by the challenge of shaping things from the ground up, you'll be in your element here.

The Finance Capability and Learning Project Lead position sits within the SFS Capability Team, which is part of the Global S&PD Finance function within SFS.

Job Role

In this role, you will be responsible for supporting the design, development and delivery of best in class technical capability and learning in support of our Finance Capability Model, and in line with our Global SFS Talent strategy. In particular, you will focus on the learning project management of the Finance Masters Challenge - a brand new, strategic global development program that aims to equip our Finance leader pipeline with future ready skills, and improve their readiness for promotion to a Finance Director role.

The role requires a multidimensional approach including influencing, coaching and interacting with a range of global expert SMEs and leadership level sponsors, and working with other PMI Communities and teams to ensure that the inaugural running of the Finance Masters Challenge is a success. There is an event and management aspect to the role, and you will need to bring your experience of deploying blended learning programs in fast moving, complex organizations. At its heart, this role is about blending technical learning and development expertise with excellence in execution, and needs a subject-matter expert who can help shepherd the organization to a successful outcome for the program.

Role Accountabilities

• Manage the co-ordination of senior stakeholders (Finance Masters Challenge working group, finance technical SMEs, other PMI Capability teams) to source and develop content and materials for the program that are timely, contextually relevant, engaging, and impactful.
• Lead interactions with the design and delivery teams when needed.
• Manage the content and materials production process to ensure integration and application of instructional design best practice, validation and sign off of content, and overall program flow.
• Manage external partner vendors including budget logistics support and holding to account for quality and timeliness of deliverables.
• Orchestrate all preparatory activities needed for onsite elements of the program (including but not limited to venue liaison, contracting, social activities, local market engagement, participant and line manager communications and engagement, baselining, registrations), working with the Senior Process Lead assigned to the team.
• Oversee delivery and logistics of VILT sessions included in the program, providing co-facilitation support to SME delivery teams and leveraging appropriate functionalities of MS Teams
• Manage and execute engagement and communications activities for the program, including through sharing, posting, and promoting content with relevant audiences.

• Partner with P&C Business Partner team to conduct participant gap analysis and align on the on-the-job and social learning elements that will run alongside structured learning, including project allocation, coaching and mentoring programs.
• Analyze learning measurement and audience engagement data and produce reports showing the learning impact for key stakeholders, identifying trends and insights (learn, adjust and improve).

Key Core Capabilities:

• Consumer Centric Mindset
• Project Management
• Influencing & Stakeholder Management
• Communication
• Achievement Focus & Results Orientation
• Problem Solving & Critical Thinking

Key Technical Competencies:

• Learning Design:
  • Highly experienced in using adult learning theory and science to design a variety of learning formats and techniques including: experiential, social/peer-to-peer, learning communities, games/simulations, videos, articles, infographics, and digital resources, live-online etc
  • Working to a 5Di or 6Ds outcome driven learning design standard model
  • Wide understanding and experience implementing full (4 levels), evaluation across all programs, initiatives and content.
  • Understanding and awareness of social media platforms, content engagement techniques.

• Learning Delivery:
  • Highley experienced in managing projects to deliver training across multiples cultures, both virtual and in-person.
  • Experienced delivering, deploying and managing train-the-trainer (T3), models.

• Also desirable:
  • Desktop publishing and production skills, Adobe Suite, Canva, Video Editing software etc.
  • Experience in using digital learning authoring tools (Articulate 360, Article/HTML).
  • Practical understanding of User Experience (UX) theory.
  • Experience working with LMS (Learning Management Systems), and LXPs

Certifications (recommended)

• Professional HR/Learning & Development Certification
• Learning Design Certification
• Training Delivery Certification
• Project Management Certification
• Coaching Certification

Critical Experience

• Experience in working in a multi-cultural organisation with colleagues in different countries and time zones
• Experience in learning and development either in a large organization or a consultancy
• Experience of managing large projects in a matrix organisation
• Experience of using Learning Management Systems and Learning Experience Platforms