Leadership Development – Learning Specialist

Guided by our leadership principles and our company values, the Learning & Organizational Capability (LOC) Team aims to create an environment where every employee can do their best work. We thrive in an environment where inclusion and openness are valued. We believe that innovation only truly happens when we explore diverse perspectives and have the freedom to take risks and learn from failure. We only truly succeed when we bring ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to the solutions we create for our learners. We are compelled to make new breakthroughs in learning design that not only helps our employees but positively disrupts and democratizes education for the world. We work with integrity and obsess about helping our learners achieve their goals and realize their purpose at Microsoft. Together, we are on a path to empower the world through learning.

As part of enabling this transformation, we have an opportunity to help drive learning as a key differentiator for Microsoft. The Leadership Development Team is seeking a Leadership Development – Learning Specialist to join us who is motivated and passionate about developing the skills and abilities needed to successfully manage programs through complex changes to meet the challenges of the future.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your project management and learning expertise to run scaled Leader development programs, continuously improving operations to drive efficiency and effectiveness. This will include working to make sure the programs have the impact and consumption required across our executive leaders.

If you enjoy working across boundaries, are energized by partnering with a large set of executive stakeholders across Human Resources (HR) and Talent Management with a goal of driving operational efficiencies, scaling our programs and increasing their impact then this role is for you.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Program Planning and Development

• Develops, guides, and manages learning programs and initiatives for relevant audiences by identifying organizational needs, securing resources, driving awareness and alignment with executive stakeholders, and prioritizing work.
• Drives the demand planning and scaling of programs in alignment with the organization KPI’s for the most impact .
• Consolidates and connects information across a variety of inputs to build holistic planning in a given segment, coordinate integration efforts, and define the skilling story.
• Supports and prioritizes short and long-term planning efforts that capture the voice of the learner.
• Defines and scopes learning objectives, outcomes, and what others should do with them using a learner-centric approach.
• Determines how to best leverage and apply resources available across the business to execute on the plan, leveraging economies of scale and driving improvements where applicable.
• Manages financial planning and forecasting and determines budgets through assessing organizational and financial trends.

Program Execution

• Leads the implementation of core learning programs and systems at a regional level including using the learning process and technology to drive efficiencies and improvements in learner experience.
• Drives the content improvement process through collecting, examining, and incorporating 360-degree feedback and data to make content adjustments.
• Implements and executes tactically on a strategic end-to-end learner journey and collection of learning experiences and programs.
• Drives the mapping of the necessary points of engagement with relevant stakeholders to enable program and content execution and address operational needs.

Program Success Analysis and Metrics

• Drives the use of data to evaluate relationships and trends across data, create and tell the data story, define capability gaps for the business, improve benchmarking, and drive learning priorities through learner-centric methodology.
• Drives assessment and change management of learning programs and content to determine how they are being consumed