Senior Specialist : Learning & Development

Absa Group; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Group is seeking a Senior Specialist in Learning & Development to enhance employee capabilities through innovative training strategies. The role involves close collaboration with business leaders and HR to craft impactful learning solutions that align with strategic goals, utilizing modern technologies and methodologies to ensure effectiveness.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in a specialist-level role within a complex environment.
• Experience in Investment Banking, Learning, or Consulting preferred.
• Proven ability to design and deliver training solutions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HRBPs to drive impactful learning and development strategies.
• Design and deliver learner-centric solutions aligned with business needs.
• Provide specialist expertise in practice formulation and improvement tactics.

Skills

Learning and Development Strategy

Talent Management

Data-informed Solutions

Design Thinking Principles

Education

Bachelor's Commerce Degree in HR

Honours Degree in HR or Business-related Fields

Job description

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together… one story at a time.

With over years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

The Senior Specialist: Learning & Development role is designed to provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics, enabling the provision of specialist learning and development expertise.

The role focuses on partnering with HRBPs and business leaders to design, implement, and drive impactful, future-focused learning and development strategies that empower individuals and teams to perform at their best.

The successful incumbent will have a Bachelor's Commerce Degree in HR or a related field (Honours Degree in HR or Business-Related Fields preferred), with a minimum of 5 to 7 years in a similar specialist-level role within a complex, fast-paced environment such as Investment Banking, Banking, Learning, and Consulting.

Job Description

The Senior Learning and Development Specialist will work in close partnership with business leaders and HR to design and deliver innovative, data-informed, and learner-centric solutions that build critical skills, enhance leadership capability, and support the organisation's strategic objectives.

By leveraging emerging technologies such as Generative AI and applying design thinking principles, the Senior Specialist will ensure that learning is aligned with business needs, accelerates performance, fosters agility, and delivers measurable value across the enterprise.

Accountabilities

• Provide advice and support in practice formulation and associated best practice improvement tactics, enabling the provision of specialist learning and development expertise.
• Partner with HRBPs and the CIB Lead – Learning and Development (LLD) to support the analysis and scoping of the L&D and talent management components of the overall CIB Strategy.
• Consult and partner with HRBPs and LLD to ensure global consistency and execution of all L&D objectives and strategies aligned with the CIB Strategy.

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas in Education, Training, and Development (Required).

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of , preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achieving an equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.