Leadership Training Manager

As a leader in luxury retail in the Middle East, Al Tayer Group's retail division, Al Tayer Insignia, hosts a portfolio of some of the world’s best luxury brands in the fashion, jewellery, home and department store categories. Complementing its position in luxury retail, Al Tayer Insignia has also built new frontiers in lifestyle retail, representing leading brands in the Beauty, Home, Fashion and Hospitality sectors. Our brands include Bloomingdales, Harvey Nichols and Armani to name just a few!

About The Role

Design, deliver, implement, and evaluate a range of leadership and management development programs in line with organizational training and learning needs. The role holder will focus on designing training and development programs to enable leadership capability development, effective job learning, succession planning and cultivate a culture of collaboration, trust, customer focus, agility, and diversity in line with ATI people and organizational development strategies and plans.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop the best-in-class leaders by enhancing managerial and leadership skills of our Business Support Functions & Commercial population
• Provide a development map / journey of customized leadership development curriculums to elevate leaders in their present and future roles
• Work closely with commercial stakeholders, brand trainers, and HR Business Partners to identify training needs and create long term learning solutions for improving skills and capabilities across all levels
• Partner with external training partners for best in class learning solutions
• Design and deliver ad hoc learning initiatives as requested by the business leaders.
• Implement effective methods to optimize the learning roadmap, budget and allocate resources, and market programs internally
• Ensure all floor managers have an IDP, and it is being regularly updated.
• Create leadership dashboards and templates to track the leadership development journey, learning impacts, and training ROI
• Deliver superior stakeholders experience by being seen as a trusted learning business partner
• Support the Head of Talent L&D and Employee Experience to build a customer driven organization aligned with the business strategies
• Ensure a proper roll out of the EVP in all learning and training initiatives.
• Support the Head of Talent L&D and Employee Experience with the annual talent identification and review cycle. including Talent Calibration, Succession Planning, Identification of high-potential employees, assessment of flight risks, mobility and the completion of employee Talent Profiles to drive improved insight into the capabilities of ATI employees
• Work closely with the Leadership Teams and HR Business Partners to build career paths for retail roles and create development plans to fast track talent
• Facilitate Internal / External Leadership Assessments to understand skill gaps.
• Update the Talent Management toolkit as needed, create talent profiles, and facilitate capability building sessions for HR Business Partners and Line Managers
• Create Talent Profiles and ensure all high potentials have IDP
• Share insights from talent calibration employee performance review cycle

About You

• Graduate or Post Graduate Degree in any relevant field.
• Professional certification (CIPD or SHRM) would be an advantage.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Talent Development, Talent Management, or related experience in building, delivering, and measuring high-impact learning experiences to a diverse audience
• Demonstrable basic commercial and business acumen with excellent analytical and critical thinking skills. Experience in the Retail industry, ideally with exposure to both corporate and stores
• Good influencing, interpersonal and coaching skills.
• Good change management and stakeholder management skills
• Strong project management, planning, and execution.
• Knowledge of adult learning practice, facilitation and training techniques and ability to apply instructional design and content writing methods to deliver impactful learning programs.
• The ability to organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting and / or exceeding deadlines
• Demonstrated success in designing, delivering, and measuring high-impact learning experiences for the leadership population
• Strong personal leadership, organizational, and relationship-building skills and deliver results through influence and excellent communication
• Technical experience in adult learning theories and / or instructional design and leadership development and masterful facilitation skills with strong diagnostic skills (listening, probing, analyzing).
• Proven ability motivating, training, and coaching employees, assigning priorities to workload, and advocating needs of the team
• Experience using data to identify insights and problem-solve and ability to switch seamlessly between strategic thinking and tactical execution within a fast-paced environment
• Strong Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), Teams, Zoom and project management applications; e-learning development is an advantage (i.e., Articulate, Adobe Captivate, etc.) Knowledge and usage of e-learning design and delivery and use of Digital Learning Technologies
• Most importantly, the Leadership Development Manager needs to live and breathe the ATI Culture, DNA and Employee Value propositions (EVP). They need to have excellent authentic communication and influencing skills and be energized by working in a fast paced, dynamic environment.