Training & Development Senior Advisor

Job Description

The Training and Development Advisor serves as a crucial liaison between department leadership and the broader learning community, ensuring that the unique needs of each department are understood and addressed effectively. They will work closely with department heads to identify gaps in skills and training and collaborate with the wider learning team to customize or adapt learning programs that meet local demands. When global learning solutions are unavailable or insufficient to address specific challenges, this role will take a leadership role in developing and implementing targeted, locally relevant solutions that solve these issues. By fostering open communication and providing strategic guidance, the Training and Development advisor ensures that learning initiatives are both operationally aligned and responsive to department-specific needs. In addition to liaising, they will also play a key role in shaping and driving the development of a local learning culture. This involves promoting the value of continuous learning, encouraging knowledge sharing, and helping department leadership prioritize skill development as a critical part of their operational strategy. They will lead efforts to deliver effective local learning interventions that not only address immediate gaps but also build long-term capabilities within teams. By acting as both a learning advocate and a problem-solver, the Training and Development Advisor ensures that learning is a strategic enabler for business success and that the departments workforce is equipped to meet both current operational demands and future transformation goals. To manage learning processes ensuring mandatory training and skill-building programs are effectively delivered, supporting both current performance and future skill development. What you will do: Has a good understanding of the business or function strategy, model and goals; understands the skills, including critical skill gaps, needed to achieve those goals. Supports integration of the talent agenda into business/partnering local agendas. Support realization of the learning vision and strategy, contribute to development of the learning common process, continuous improvement of that process and show and drive process discipline in the team and remit. Owns the local compliance training matrix for their remit and aligns with the global compliance conformance training matrices. Drive the global learning standardization and modernization agenda locally. In addition, support the remit with complex performance consulting to address local skills learning needs. Contributes to the local demand planning processes in partnership with site leadership and site PC Partnering Develops learning and development solutions to meet specific site needs Sustain use of global and local products through continual delivery, for example, assignments, demand management, and marketing. Manages all global and local learning and development programs and events effectively at site. Identifies specific needs, for example, based on local regulations or equipment, that are not covered by global products; work with the relevant SPA to analyse the need and translate them into learning solutions where required to meet compliance / conformance needs Creates an inclusive environment in which to manage, coach, mentor and develop the team. Supports Training and Development Manager on cost and partner recovery for learning. Supports local career development programs in partnership with relevant members of talent organization. Manage the delivery of Operational and technical early career/ apprenticeship programs. What you will need: Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience in organizational development, business administration, engineering or related field. 3-5 years in a learning and development or delivery role, with a focus on managing learning program and processes within an organization or 5-years experience working within a production operations role. Skills: Business acumen Stakeholder management and communication Project and program management Learning and development expertise Problem solving and innovation Data analysis and reporting Knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements Influencing Systems thinking Continuous Learning Agility core practices Creating and measuring impact Customer centric thinking Data Analysis Marketing learning Performance Consulting Technical: Demonstrated experience in managing learning programs or projects from planning to execution, including resource coordination, scheduling and working with cross-functional teams Understanding and experience of interfacing learning support or in the relevant business, in leading managing the (learning) processes and knowledge of local training related legislation are needed Behavioural: Understands the business they support Learning management and programme management expertise Some roles require fluency in multiple languages