Senior Consultant – Learning Solutions

<p><b>Band</b></p>Level 5<p><br/> </p><p><b>Job Description Summary</b></p>Location Dublin, Prague, Mexico or Hyderabad <br/><br/>Closing Date for Applications: 1700 BST 18th August 2025<br/><br/>Reports to: Director – Learning Solutions and/or Global Head of Growth and Upskilling <br/><br/>Novartis aims to be the best company for learning and development opportunities. In this role, you will significantly contribute to the skills and learning experiences of Novartis associates, impacting company performance. <br/>You will partner with business/functions learning teams, P&amp;O, Talent Development communities to design and deploy learning and skills initiatives supporting our strategic capabilities agenda. <br/><br/>You will collaborate across the Learning Centre of Excellence (CoE) to leverage the latest in digital learning technologies and innovations to transform learning solutions within your portfolio, ensuring adoption, engagement, and impact.<br/>In addition, you are the owner of our Learning Solutions and accountable for the end-to-end of our Global Learning Solutions including the continuous improvement and reporting of our learning and skills solutions to ensure impact on our people and talent strategy and business priorities.<p><br/> </p><p><b>Job Description</b></p><p><b>Major Responsibilities</b></p><ul><li><b>Strategic Learning Partnering:</b> Partner and engage with stakeholders across the enterprise to understand their learning and skills needs and serve as the single point of contact (SPOC) for the business on learning and skills initiatives.</li><li><b>Learning Solutions Demand Planning and Scheduling:</b> Collaborate and engage with colleagues across the Global Learning Community to identify and prioritise learning demand and schedule learning and skills solutions for deployment.</li><li><b>Learning Solution Design and Deployment:</b> Collaborate across the Learning CoE and partner colleagues from learning teams in the business/functions and from across P&amp;O and Novartis enterprise to build, deploy, and embed learning solutions for learner engagement, effectiveness, and impact.</li><li><b>Learning Community Mobilisation:</b> Collaborate and engage with colleagues across the Global Learning Community in the deployment of learning and skills solutions where required – including program nominations, stakeholder engagement and communications and learning solutions delivery</li><li><b>Facilitator Faculty Management:</b> Leverage both internal and external facilitator faculty as part of learning and skills solutions deployment, and ensure adherence to requirements and budget where relevant</li><li><b>Learning Solution Continuous Improvement:</b> Leverage learning analytics and other insights to ensure that learning solutions are reviewed periodically for continuous improvement</li><li><b>Learning Solutions ‘ownership’: </b>Act as ‘owner’ of our Learning Solutions (ie: end-to-end accountability for the specific learning solution) leading on all aspects of Learning Solutions design and deployment including continuous improvement and reporting  </li><li><b>Learning Solutions Transformation:</b> Lead the transformation of our learning solutions for greater impact, engagement and to demonstrate the opportunity to leverage the latest in learning and talent technology and innovations</li><li><b>Learning and Skills Consultation:</b> Provide learning and skills consultation and expertise on strategic projects and initiatives as agreed with project sponsors and/or Global Head of Growth and Upskilling</li><li><b>Skills to Learning: </b>Ensure integration between skills strategy and learning solutions design and deployment through partnership and collaboration with Talent Development teams and learning teams in the business/functions for highest impact  </li></ul><p></p><p><b>Experience Required:</b></p><p><b>Essential</b></p><ul><li>Experience designing and deploying learning and skills initiatives across multiple geographies with clear business outcomes.</li><li>Experience in de-commissioning learning and skills initiatives for global alignment and/or efficiency, costs.</li><li>Experience integrating strategic capabilities and skills agenda with learning program design and deployments, including the use of skills and other metadata tagging.</li><li>Experience leveraging learning and talent technologies (such as T/LXP, LMS, skills systems, testing systems) in the design and deployment of global skills, capabilities building, and learning solutions.</li><li>Experience with HR-related analytics and insights, including learning analytics, skills, and talent data sources.</li><li>Extensive experience in corporate training, learning, and/or leadership development in complex matrix organizations.</li><li>Experience in learning content curation and demonstrated success in embedding curated content in business-specific learning initiatives and requirements</li><li>Degree in organizational change, adult learnin