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Job Title
Learning & Talent Partner
Job Location
London
Job Type
Business Services
Country/Territory
England
Region
UK & Europe
Description
Title: Learning & Talent Partner
Department: Learning & Talent Development (HR)
Location: United Kingdom
Reports to: Senior Talent Development Manager (UK)
The Team
The Global Learning & Development team serves over 5,000 people
from over 60 offices across both fee earner and business services
teams and provides specialist advice and learning solutions across a
broad remit including: professional core skills training, continuing
legal education, talent development programs, talent planning,
coaching, career development initiatives and practice area or business
specific L&D.
This newly created role requires deep expertise across learning,
leadership and talent development, including managing complex end to
end programmes, driving operational excellence and influencing
stakeholders at all levels.
The Role
Working with a global remit, the Learning & Talent Partner role
serves as a strategic partner in designing and delivering effective
learning solutions while supporting strategic L&TD priorities and
ensuring operational excellence. As a new role, responsibilities may
evolve over time, requiring a highly collaborative individual with a
strong track record in driving change in L&D and supporting an
ambitious people agenda.
Reporting into the Senior Talent Development Manager, the role will
apply thought leadership, project management and strong facilitation
skills to successfully design and deliver talent programmes and
business change initiatives across learning, leadership and talent.
Deep expertise of managing, designing and delivering across all phases
of the learning cycle is essential, including ROI and learning metrics.
Adopting a trusted advisor approach, the role will collaborate
closely with HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and stakeholders to identify
and address specific learning and talent development needs across the
firm. The role will focus on equipping stakeholder groups with
essential professional development and behavioural skills, enabling
them to deliver exceptional client services.
Key Responsibilities
Project-manage key strategic priority projects focused on the
development and progression of the firm's top talent, ensuring
alignment with the firm's strategy and values.
Works closely with peers, HRBPs and stakeholders to design and
deliver/implement (including partnering with external experts)
scalable global learning and talent solutions that can be
effectively rolled out across different regions.
Facilitate diverse learning interventions and design tailored team
development sessions - supporting ad hoc requests by creating and
delivering targeted learning experiences and team development initiatives.
Works closely with Senior Talent Development Manager, HRBPs and
stakeholders to review effectiveness of existing talent programmes
and identifying any gaps in the key career milestones of the firm's
talent portfolio and implementing effective solutions.
Builds talent capability by developing and organising complex
learning needs analysis, designing learning outcomes and proposing
business cases for a wide variety of learning and talent development initiatives.
Drawing insights from metrics to assess and enhance learning and
talent initiatives and to make commercial decisions about future
investments, ensuring programmes deliver commercial value and
support our commitment to diversity and fostering an inclusive environment.
Oversees design and co-develops learning and talent processes that
are globally aligned and fit for purpose.
Engage in various talent development initiatives including the
review and enhancement of the firm's external coaching offering and
internal coaching capability.
Serves as a mentor (and may take on people management
responsibilities) to help develop junior L&D team members.
Supports the global team with budget management and makes
recommendations that are commercially smart and inclusive of
diversity across the regions.
Essential Skills &
Experience
Experienced talent development professional (experience in
Manager/ Business Partner level) with experience of working in
professional services.
Experience of facilitating and designing leadership programmes
using the most up to date learning methodologies and technologies,
tailoring to specific audiences.
Proven track record in partnering with external suppliers to
source high quality learning solutions and managing these relationships.
Demonstrated experience in effectively managing and allocating
budges for learning and talent development initiatives.
Prior experience of working with regional and global teams in
complex environments undergoing significant transformation and modernisation.
Strong communication skills with the ability to partner, advise
and influence at all levels of the business.
Enthusiastic and proactive approach with a supportive, commercial
outlook, client delivery focussed work ethic.
Highly organised and a good planner with an ability to manage and
deliver on multiple projects and strong attention to detail.
Experience and skills within leadership development is also desirable.
The Firm
Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the
sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely:
insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It
is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious
and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal
advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is
committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing
towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity
of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its
communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable
partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The
firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000
people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.
Our Values
Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite
us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for our clients and
our firm. We:
Work as one We are a globally connected team of talented people
who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
Excel with clients We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver
unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of
everything we do
Celebrate difference We help each other to be at our best and
believe our differences result in greater achievement
Act boldly We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we
go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and
contributes to growth
Business Services Competencies
Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and
professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to
be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to
fulfil their career aspirations.
The competencies are used to inform all aspects of Business Services
career development. They vary across levels and different business
areas and fall under the following areas:
