Contract duration: 1 year
Role Purpose
The Senior Learning & Development Consultant supports the development of people and leadership capabilities across ASEAN. The role designs and delivers selected soft-skills programmes, manages customised learning requests, supports the implementation of global leadership and high-potential development initiatives, and ensures effective learning operations, vendor management and reporting across the region.
Key responsibilities
1. Learning Needs and Portfolio Planning
- Partner with the P&C Head, HRBPs and business stakeholders to understand business, talent and capability development needs across ASEAN.
- Translate agreed priorities into a focused annual learning plan and programme roadmap.
- Review the learning portfolio regularly and recommend which programmes should be improved, scaled, consolidated or discontinued.
2. Learning Program Design and Delivery
- Design, develop and deliver selected ASEAN soft-skills programmes using sound adult-learning and instructional-design principles.
- Work with internal SMEs and external partners to develop blended learning experiences, materials, facilitator resources, workplace application activities and evaluation methods.
- Promote learning culture through design and delivery zone-level learning activities, such as Lunch & Learn sessions, community-based learning.
- Support the P&C Head in designing customised learning solutions requested by HRBPs and take ownership of their implementation and delivery.
3. Programme, Vendor and Learning Operations Management
- Manage programme implementation against agreed scope, timelines, budgets and quality standards.
- Source, select and manage external facilitators, coaches and learning vendors, ensuring relevant solutions and reliable delivery.
- Manage learning-related procurement, purchase orders, invoices, contract administration and budget tracking in partnership with Procurement, Finance and other relevant functions.
- Manage learning calendars, programme communications and day-to-day learning platform operations across ASEAN.
4. Learning Analytics and Continuous Improvement
- Track participation, completion, learner feedback, workplace application and relevant learning and development outcomes across the portfolio.
- Translate data and feedback into clear insights and recommendations to improve programme effectiveness and participant experience.
- Apply appropriate digital and AI-enabled tools to improve learning design, delivery, administration and access.
5. Leadership and High-Potential Programme Support
- Support the localisation and implementation of global leadership programmes across ASEAN, maintaining core standards while strengthening local relevance.
- Support the implementation of ASEAN high-potential development initiatives, including mentoring, coaching and stretch-development components.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Education, Organisational Psychology, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least five years of relevant experience in Learning and Development, Talent Development, Leadership Development or a related field.
- Experience in a large multinational company is strongly preferred, particularly within a matrix organisation involving global, regional and country stakeholders.
- Strong written and spoken English; an additional ASEAN language is an advantage.
- Demonstrated ability to independently design, develop and deliver soft-skills learning programmes, applying adult-learning and instructional-design principles.
- Strong programme and project management skills, including managing multiple priorities and coordinating delivery across countries.
- Experience managing learning vendors, programme budgets and procurement-related processes.
- Familiarity with learning management systems, virtual learning tools and learning analytics, with the ability to translate data into practical insights.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder coordination skills, with the ability to clarify needs, align expectations and secure support across functions and levels.
- Strong facilitation skills and confidence engaging diverse audiences in both virtual and in-person settings.
- Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgement and follow through on agreed outcomes.
- Willingness to travel within ASEAN as required.