Lead Consultant, Learning & Development

  • Full-time

Company Description

Hitachi Solutions is a core IT Company of the Hitachi Group, which employs over 330,000 people worldwide. Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Hitachi Solutions' reach extends to group companies in Japan and abroad, working with a worldwide network of alliance partners. Through systems integration, we strive to provide ideal solutions and products to customers in a diverse set of countries and regions including Asia, North America and Europe. Using a portfolio of management consulting, implementation, and support services, we help our clients compete with the largest global enterprises leveraging powerful, affordable, and easy to use industry solutions built on Microsoft technologies. Our vision is to help you achieve your vision through superior products, prices, and people.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

  • Support
    development, implementation and continuous improvement of the Hitachi L&D offering consistent with the T&A capability

  • Coach, mentor and develop consultants in Learning and development and organisational change management related skills

  • Support the projects and project teams as subject matter expert on learning and development specific areas focused on: Training Needs Analysis, Training Strategy and Implementation plans, Training materials development, Training delivery, including e-learning, Training Assessment and development

  • Design, commission and deliver as appropriate corporate learning activities across the HITACHI
    business; supporting the development of senior/executive learning across Hitachi

  • Demonstrate understanding of the factors in Systems implementations impacting on client
    success and delivery

  • Ensure learning interventions meet compliance, skills, and T&C requirements. In addition, L&D solutions should support the business strategy, messaging, and desired behaviours

  • Build rapport on projects with the relevant client interfaces to facilitate organisational changes

  • Develop project-based L&D WBS with clients, in line with the Consensus methodology, to take into account organisational and behaviour changes needed for best results which is validated and later executed by the client

  • Regular on-site meetings to review status of Training, strategy, approach, schedules, issues and litigation measures jointly with the client

  • Liaison with the allocated Project Manager(s) to ensure internal T&A knowledge is shared within the organisation & to client staff

  • Supporting Sales and Marketing activities around Training as required To actively seek Case Studies from existing Clients

Qualifications

Key Competencies:

  • Credible client facing personality

  • 7-10+ years of relevant work experience (Learning and development, organisational change management, international PM)

  • Communication skills: strong presentation/ communication / facilitation skills (oral and written)

  • Up to date knowledge of Learning and development methodologies and issues

  • Exhibits strong leadership abilities as role model, partner and mentor to project teams
    and clients

  • Results-focused with strong business acumen combined with analytical and structured thinking

  • Proven ability to build C- / top-management level rapport

  • General consulting skills, including: team facilitation, conflict management, business
    case development

  • Strong theoretical and applied experience in learning and development, organisational,
    business and behavioural change and relevant methodologies

Knowledge and experience of:

  • Front and back office business system implementations

  • Strong MS Office application experience

  • Dynamics 365 Operations (AX)

  • Experience with LCMS

  • Familiarity with other relevant software packages such as Adobe Captivate, Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop

  • English (Must)

  • French and German (strong plus)

  • CMI, APMG, PROSCI and related change management qualifications (plus)

Additional Information

The Hitachi Solutions Europe office is in London but our client offices are spread throughout the UK so candidates must be willing to travel and stay away from home during the working week.

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