Business Partner

• Design develop and curate development content that is accessible, relevant, and engaging. Able to develop core skills development and deliver face to face or virtually; but also, to work with ‘technical experts’ to assist them in developing learning
• Budget Management: Assist in forecasting L&D annual departmental budget, monitoring spends, and ensuring training costs are in line with defined budgets.
• Connect with staff members across the Lifestyle business, understand their strengths and areas of development and organize appropriate trainings for learning needs identified.
• Deliver an effective onboarding process which enables new starters to get up to speed quickly and embeds the culture and organizational values
• Coach and mentor staff on a regular basis providing support for self-development and drawing on the full potential of individuals and teams
• Create & maintain a network of buddy trainers who would drive the in-store learnings.
• Assist in managing accounts for all L&D suppliers and content providers, ensuring that the company gets best value for money; and utilizes contracts fully
• Travel across regions to deliver specific learning needs to stores & partner with stores to support their needs
  

Requirements

• Professional qualification in Learning & Development and Coaching / Mentoring
• Minimum 6-9 years’ experience in the learning & Development
• Advanced verbal and written English and Arabic languages
• Coaching and influencing managers to solve L&D issues
• Familiar with 70/20/10 principle to personal development Understands frameworks to develop talent and build career pathways
• Confident at developing digitalized improvements to learning solutions