Learning Lead (AD), Global Clients

Company Description

Publicis Groupe is one of the world’s largest communications holding companies, present in over 100 countries and employing about 80,000 professionals.  The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.

Job Description

The Learning lead is responsible for driving a key talent pillar and partnership with the Global Client Leaders (GCLs), in their mission to consistently deliver with Excellence, retain clients and drive exponential growth across their clients. 

The opportunity lies in bringing the very best of the Groupe’s global learning opportunities to the Global Client Leaders, their core leadership teams and the high potential and future leaders that work on Global Clients. The role has existing scope with some key outputs and practices but holds real potential to be evolved given the autonomy and reach of the topic being such a corner stone of our talent offering.

The candidate will be passionate about talent development and delivering, measuring, and scaling growth through learning. They will be comfortable with operating with influence, and with both an interdependent and entrepreneurial mindset. They will be excited to partner with learning teams and spot new opportunities to strategically support GCLs around the world and represent their needs. A curiosity for commercially led Power of One modelling and the behaviours required to drive it are also key. As is an interest in and excitement for marketing services and Publicis Groupe.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Areas of focus:

• Bring the Best of Publicis Groupe’s global learning opportunities to Global Client Talent across the Groupe – advocate, network and engage, drive participation and support in the identification and tracking of high potential talent.
• Identify learning gaps and opportunities through insights from current offerings and new opportunities that are linked to growth (e.g. Scotwork Partnership, coaching program).
• Attend and understand business planning sessions and build relationships with the GC and Learning communities to consult on Client level learning needs and opportunities.
• Own and evolve our Onboarding proposition for all key populations (GCL, GCFL, GC Team).
• Manage all nominations and tracking for global learning programs. Bring these opportunities to GC team leadership and their teams and drive participation through advocacy and understanding (community pages, newsletter, connect calls etc)
• Create and drive measurable impact, lead tracking of learning instances linked to development and capability gaps.
• Build playbooks for scale and act as an SME when partnering with CDLs and Global Client Teams to plot and drive a learning culture through coaching and development 
• Be a conduit for DE&I led learning instances and projects in partnership with the TE&I teams, to include (but not limited to) Multi Cultural Talent Partnership, Inclusive Teams learning programs. Inform and advocate with GCLs in aligning to their client transformation commitments in this space and support with roadmaps aligned to growth and impact.
• Develop and drive a learning agenda for the GCGP team and be an active participant in team learning moments and opportunities including participating on the people and culture squad for the team.
• Where relevant and appropriate, lead training for workshops on driving power of one team operating culture and transformation with client teams and the GCLs.
• Manages external vendor relationships where appropriate

Qualifications

THE PERSON

An Advocate:  for the practice, the model and realising the Groupe potential. Recognises the need to promote great work and ideas and maximise partnerships. Advocates relentlessly for the importance of driving a learning culture to unlock growth.

A Partner: to the business; consultative and collaborative.

Curious: about our industry, Publicis Groupe’s products, offerings, capabilities, and the Global Client Growth practice.

Globally Minded: Thinks at scale and elevates outside of a singular market, or brand led view.

Consultative and Strategic: Comfortable communicating at the senior most levels of our organisation with gravitas, simplicity and with a client service mindset. Joins dots to spot opportunity and flag / escalate wider topics. Manages vertically upwards as well as horizontally across the org and team.

Action orientated: Is focused on measurable impact and able to operate with purpose and intention without requiring permission. Assumes a mindset of being the SME to advise and consult on strategy.

Restless: Does not settle,