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West Monroe is in search of a Senior Talent and Leadership Development Specialist to join the Talent & Leadership Development (TLD) team. You will be responsible for maintaining, developing and leading learning programs that cut across all practices in alignment with West Monroe’s overall skill development strategy. You will own all components of assigned learning programs across multiple workstreams, including managing vendors and stakeholders, and working with internal subject matter experts to develop skills across a range of topics.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Management
- Oversee and manage the assessment, selection, design, development, piloting, logistics, delivery, and ongoing maintenance of learning programs.
- Deliver training and facilitation sessions to small and large audiences, including facilitating strategic and alignment discussions with leaders.
- Create or curate materials for professional development, e-Learning, curriculum, and communications.
- Scope and develop project plans that integrate various resources, tasks, timelines, and stakeholder management into a cohesive plan.
- Recommend and implement updates to existing training material for continuous improvement of course content and program delivery techniques.
- Analyze all relevant data and take the appropriate actions to improve overall quality and effectiveness of learning programs.
- Partner with internal clients to build consensus and to gain sponsorship for various courses and programs and to gain a deep understanding of practice initiatives and organizational challenges.
- Keep project leaders, stakeholders and subject matter experts engaged in the development of learning programs, maintaining scope, high quality, and timeliness.
- Solicit and incorporate internal client, Level 1/end-user feedback to continuously improve professional learning experiences.
- Design documents, reports, and presentations that effectively and attractively connect with the audience and convey meaning while adhering to style guidelines.
Performance Consulting
- Partner with other organizational units to provide guidance on departmental or organizational talent and leadership development needs.
- Use a consultative mindset to partner with internal clients to build consensus and buy-in and to gain sponsorship for various courses and programs.
- Synthesize information to formulate recommendations or a course of action to gain agreement, support, and/or buy-in from stakeholders.
Client Service
- Proactively and openly communicate with internal clients; seeking to understand the bigger picture with genuine curiosity.
- Provide transparency and thoughtfulness while supporting internal clients by being empowered in answering questions and speaking up when support is needed.
Vendor Management
- Manage, partner with, and coach vendors to build relationships and onboard them to understand the West Monroe culture to enable the success of recommendations, implementations, and learning delivery.
- Partner with vendors, stakeholders, and West Monroe’s internal teams to manage executed contracts, submit invoices and ensure payment of invoices, while managing the overall relationship with the vendor.
- Provide participant feedback from vendor-taught courses to continuously improve the design and delivery of learning programs.
Required Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:
- Ability to create structure around ambiguous assignments and manage complexity in terms of the work and stakeholders to deliver results in a compressed timeframe.
- Experience in public speaking, facilitation, and training delivery required.
- Use best-in-class instructional design techniques to deliver new elements while meeting budget and timeline requirements.
- Experience with the creation of various training resources, including job aids, training guides, facilitator guides, and participant materials
- Demonstrated project management and risk identification and mitigation skills
- Strong foundation in problem-solving, analytics, and project management principles and tools.
- Strong communication skills; superior editing, writing, and critical reasoning skills and ability to influence stakeholders and senior leaders.
- Broad thinking and perspective of current learning and development trends and change management best practices.
- Demonstrated attention to detail and strong prioritization skills.
- Extremely strong written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to build strong relationships and influence.
- Ability to adapt to a constantly changing environment.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, nimble, professional environment.
- Ability to lift a minimum of 40 lbs.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of progressive talent development experience.
- Experience in a professional services environment desirable.
- Experience designing, delivering, and managing large-scale learning programs.
- Demonstrated understanding of adult learning theories, needs assessment, and instructional and eLearning design.
- Experience with the creation of various training resources, including job aids, training guides, facilitator guides, and participant materials.
- Demonstrated project management and risk identification and mitigation skills.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available for use after successful completion of one year of employment.
Seattle or Washington, D.C.
$92,100—$102,300 USD
Los Angeles
$96,500—$107,100 USD
New York City or San Francisco
$100,900—$112,000 USD
A location not listed above
$87,700—$97,400 USD
At West Monroe, we work with you.
We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.
The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next.
You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe, visit www.westmonroe.com/inclusion.
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What We Do
West Monroe is a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating value for our clients. We co-create solutions that accelerate results now and prepare industries to tackle what’s next. We’re excited by the possibilities that technology creates. We work with our clients to deliver on the possible, building on their goals, generating fresh insights and creating inspiring outcomes.
We excel at the intersection of industry, strategy, people and technology—always driving rapid impact. Our all-in approach comes from our unique employee ownership structure. Our clients’ success is our success. From the beginning, our growth has come from putting people at the center. Fortune and USA Today consistently celebrate West Monroe as a top workplace, and we’re recognized as a leading consultancy by Forbes and Forrester.
Why Work With Us
It’s our mission to help build the next generation of leaders, and we’re committed to partnering with employees to build an experience that’s challenging, fulfilling, and filled with constant opportunities to grow, and to make a real difference.
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