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Senior Program Manager, Brooks Academy
Brooks RunningUnited Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 31 Dec 2024
💰 $162,605/yr($108,403/yr – $162,605/yr)
About the role
Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line. Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation. Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success: · Runner First We act in the best interest of the runner · Word is Bond We do what we say we’ll do · Champion Heart We give our all in everything we do · There is no “I” in RunWe stay generous with our humanity · Keep MovingWe find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic! We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job:
The Brooks Footwear Product Operations team exists to enable and empower product teams to achieve their best possible outcomes. This function, within Global Footwear, focuses on operational excellence by defining, communicating, and constantly improving operational processes, internal communication, and strategic project & portfolio management. In support of these efforts, Product Operations develops, deploys & maintains tools and targeted solutions. As the Senior Program Manager, Brooks Academy, you will design and curate comprehensive curriculums and development plans aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of Brook’s footwear team members through the Brooks Academy training program. This program is created for our Footwear employees with the goal of accelerating and expanding their knowledge in all aspects of product creation and product leadership. This involves working closely with managers and footwear leadership to identify individual and collective skill development opportunities across the team and leverage internal and external tools to create training programs, strategies and roadmaps that foster continuous professional growth and excellence within these areas. The successful candidate will be a strong leader across the organization and have a passion for creating development opportunities for employees.
At Brooks, we believe movement is the key to feeling more alive. That’s why we’re driven to create gear and experiences that take people to the place that makes them feel more alive — whether it’s a headspace, a feeling, or a finish line. Everyone who works at Brooks is propelled by a company culture that sparks excitement, fuels collaboration, inspires creativity, and ignites innovation. Our brand values help bond us together and drive our success: · Runner First We act in the best interest of the runner · Word is Bond We do what we say we’ll do · Champion Heart We give our all in everything we do · There is no “I” in RunWe stay generous with our humanity · Keep MovingWe find ways to move every day, because joy is kinetic! We welcome everyone from every walk of life looking to inspire others through the power of movement — because we’re all moving towards something. Let’s run there.
Your Job:
The Brooks Footwear Product Operations team exists to enable and empower product teams to achieve their best possible outcomes. This function, within Global Footwear, focuses on operational excellence by defining, communicating, and constantly improving operational processes, internal communication, and strategic project & portfolio management. In support of these efforts, Product Operations develops, deploys & maintains tools and targeted solutions. As the Senior Program Manager, Brooks Academy, you will design and curate comprehensive curriculums and development plans aimed at enhancing the skills and capabilities of Brook’s footwear team members through the Brooks Academy training program. This program is created for our Footwear employees with the goal of accelerating and expanding their knowledge in all aspects of product creation and product leadership. This involves working closely with managers and footwear leadership to identify individual and collective skill development opportunities across the team and leverage internal and external tools to create training programs, strategies and roadmaps that foster continuous professional growth and excellence within these areas. The successful candidate will be a strong leader across the organization and have a passion for creating development opportunities for employees.
Your Responsibilities:
- Work closely with Senior Footwear Leadership to identify key knowledge opportunities to accelerate current and new employee impact on the footwear creation process.
- Brainstorm creative ways to deliver knowledge while maintaining high engagement and retention.
- Innovate, build and own Brooks Academy programs that have a measurable impact on footwear employee knowledge.
- Collaborate with Senior Manager, Footwear Product Operations to define the roadmap for the Brooks Academy Program.
- Build out a detailed plan and budget for delivering against the Brooks Academy objectives and partner with content subject matter experts to implement the plan and execute within budget.
- Establish goals for each Academy training project and methods on how to measure success.
- Implement and manage various education materials and tools to broaden footwear employee learning ranging from entry level to advanced experiences levels.
- Act as the subject matter expert on footwear employee education and develop, institute, and maintain unified onboarding programs specific to the footwear department to create universal new employee experiences.
- Build relationships across Footwear and cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales, Apparel and Operations to stay informed on current business landscape in order to keep Academy content up to date.
- Evaluate current and future training needs for Brooks academy and develop plans to meet training goals with an eye towards trends in best practices and current business and industry trends.
- Lead multiple programs while simultaneously maintaining ownership for deliverables and any associated change management for each program.
- Lead the planning and facilitation of multi-day training sessions with up to 20 participants.
- Create and maintain detailed project plans for each Brooks Academy program.
- Create e-learning content in our enterprise Learning Management System (LMS) to greater engage and ed
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