Learning & Development Consultant

Emerson Human Capital Consulting; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerson Human Capital Consulting is seeking a Learning and Development Consultant in the United States to lead learning initiatives for Fortune 100 clients. You will analyze needs, design blended learning programs, and apply AI-enabled tools to drive behavior change.

You will manage senior stakeholders, deliver projects on time and on budget, and collaborate with client teams to re-skill workforces for new business models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 5–10 years of external L&D consulting/training or instructional design experience.
• Advanced instructional design principles and best practices.
• Experience designing blended learning solutions (ILT, digital, social, experiential, performance support).
• Strong business/technical writing and editing skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Solid project management and data analytics capabilities.
• Experience working with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Willingness to travel and collaborate with client teams.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled learning solutions and prompt engineering is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct needs and gap analyses in skills, audience, and organization.
• Develop high-quality, impactful learning solutions with lasting effects.
• Leverage modern learning technologies, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools.
• Manage senior leader stakeholders and align on vision and outcomes.
• Deliver projects on time, on budget, and with high quality standards.
• Lead large-scale transformations at Fortune 100 companies.
• Work with clients to re-tool and re-skill their people for new business models.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Instructional design

Blended learning design

Data analytics

Communication skills

Project management

AI-enabled learning

Change management

Collaboration

Content development

Education

Bachelor's degree

Professional certifications (PMP/CLP/CPLP/CHRP)

Tools

Articulate Storyline

Adobe Captivate

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Salesforce

Palantir

Job description

Are you passionate about Learning and Development? Have you been successful at leading learning and development projects? Are you known for your excellence in creating top notch learning solutions? If you said “yes” to all of our questions, you might like to apply to our Learning and Development Consultant positions.

• Conducting thorough needs and gap analyses in skills, audience, organization, etc.
• Developing instructionally sound, creative, and high quality-learning solutions with high impact results that leave a lasting effect
• Leveraging modern learning technologies, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools to design, develop, and implement behavior change solutions.
• Managing senior leader stakeholders and aligning on vision, outcomes, and expectations
• Managing projects: delivering on time, on budget, and with unparalleled quality standards.
• Implementing organizational changes that come with large-scale transformations at Fortune 100 companies.
• Working with clients to re-tool and re-skill their people, so they support the new way of doing business.

Being a Learning and Development Consultant requires:

• A college degree from a 4-year college
• Typically, 5-10 years external learning and development consulting / training or instructional design experience
• Advanced level experience in instructional design principles and best practices
• Experience designing and delivering blended learning solutions that combine instructor-led, digital, social, experiential, and performance support approaches
• Superior business/technical writing and editing skills
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills’
• Strong project management and data analytics skills
• Significant experience working with people at all levels of an organization, particularly senior leaders at large organizations
• Passion for collaborating and supporting internal and client team members
• Demonstrated ability to leverage data, learner insights, and business metrics to inform solution design and measure impact
• Comfort working alongside technical teams and advising clients on practical applications of AI, automation, analytics, and digital learning ecosystems

It’s beneficial if you have professional certification (PMP, CLP, CPLP, CHRP) related to project management, change management, learning, or human resource management – as well as experience in the following:

• Vision alignment and learning needs analysis
• Persona design
• Competency design
• Program and curriculum design
• Blended learning experience design and development
• ERP or similar technology implementation training experience (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Palantir)
• eLearning authoring tools such as Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate
• Data analytics and dashboard development
• AI-enabled learning solution design and prompt engineering, rapid prototyping, low-code/no-code development, or AI-assisted solution development
• Big 4 Consulting experience
• Willingness to travel

Why Emerson?

• We were the first US company with a large team of full-time employees specializing only in behavior change . We employ only experts, like you. We’re not an IT consultancy or an accounting firm that also has a specialized practice – critical behavior change is all we do.
• We are thought leaders in human performance . For example, the Association for Talent Development published our book series, which covers some of our favorite principles, tips and lessons learned: The Change Book, The Learning & Development Book, and The Technology Change Book.
• We deliver for the best . We are the choice of some of the most successful and well-known companies in the world. We don’t like to drop names, mostly because our lawyers won’t let us. But if we did, we could tell you about an iconic clothing brand, an oil and gas giant, a global leader in hospitality, and a company that makes really fast shoes. Just to not name a few.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Emerson Human Capital Consulting might not be eligible for consideration. Applicants for employment in the U.S. must have unrestricted work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

$65 - $75 an hour