Specialist Learning amp Development

Profile

Job Description
Job Description
The ideal candidate will support the Durham Learning and Development (L&D) team by planning and executing learning programs and activities, along with providing on-going support for the Durham Integrated Learning Plan.
In this role, you will combine strong facilitation skills with an ability to service multiple stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a reliable problem-solver with strong project management and communication skills.
Responsibilities:
•            Create and maintain training records in the Learning Management System (LMS) (e.g. training records, course scheduling, training completions, training coordination, regulatory audit support)
Maintain and execute learning plan assignments and requests (Curriculum/Job Code Updates)
•            Support all activities associated with New Hire Orientation (facilitation, course material preparation, classroom setup, scheduling/coordination, trainer material preparation, content development/modification, as required)
•            Facilitate MMD Job Skills Training program.  Coach and evaluate participants
•            Facilitate other assigned training, as required
•            Track, trend, and submit multiple training reports on training activities, training effectiveness and overall compliance metrics
Consult with stakeholders to understand their needs to make appropriate learning assumptions and solutions.  Support needs assessments and/or capability gap analyses
•            Partner with stakeholders to develop area capability plans linked to business requirements, inclusive of job, functional and leadership skills
Identify required skills and knowledge that need to be included in learning interventions
Act as liaison between LSS and stakeholders to ensure alignment with learning needs
•            Support the organization in Permanent Inspection Readiness and CGMP Compliance
Manage documentation to ensure compliance to internal and external regulatory standards
•            Ensure adherence to all Learning & Development policies and processes from site, MMD Learning and Global
•            Support EHS or Quality Compliance regulatory audits/inspections, as required
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Education Minimum Requirement
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience and Skills
Minimum of five (5) years of experience in a people development role (L&D/HR/OD) or demonstrated ability to proactively develop employees
Preferred Experience and Skills:
Working Knowledge of Learning Management Systems
Curriculum Management
Experience in Lean Manufacturing Production Systems
Knowledge of Manufacturing E2E Business Process & Functions
Working knowledge and application of Adult Learning Principles and Evaluation Methodologies
Quality Management systems, cGMP, and regulatory inspections
Basic understanding of change management methodology and processes to drive adoption of changes (new processes, new systems, role changes)
Competencies:
Working Across Boundaries:
Thinks and acts broadly, beyond one's silo – bridges boundaries across teams, functions, divisions, geographies, external stakeholders, and customers. Demonstrates an understanding of how one's job responsibilities contribute to the department's goals and a knowledge of the business's core strategy for long-term success.
Fosters Interpersonal Relationships & Collaboration:
Actively listens and seeks to understand differing perspectives; work together to achieve the common goals of Merck and MSD. Demonstrated skill in applying approaches, tools, and techniques for working with individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner, including the ability to build and maintain critical networks and collaborative relationships.
Productive Communications (Oral & Written):
Ability to distribute accurate information and craft messages for appropriate target audiences, with guidance if needed. Speaks and writes clearly and concisely with the ability to select the appropriate form of communication to share information.
Drives Results
: Set clear performance standards; overcome obstacles; hold ourselves and others accountable for achieving results.
Learning System Operations
: Demonstrates an understanding of the role of learning technology in employee capability development and an awareness of data standards and system maintenance structure.
Adult Learning Theory and Practice
: Familiarity with the concepts and practices of adult learning and its application to the workplace.
Learning Consultation
: Applies knowledge of the business and/or stakeholder to identify learning strategies to enable critical success factors required to achieve objectives. Conducts needs assessment and capability gap analysis for single learning solutions. Applies learning industry expertise to identify potential learning solutions.
Agile Learning Design & Execution
: Use elements like experimentation to arrive at innovative solutions and strategies needed to holistically develop worker capability and workplace and work conditions to achieve business goals. Includes execution of learning technologies and interventions; agile, scrum, and continuous learning methodologies; facilitation; conducting train the trainers; and skills qualification. Leverage internal and external assets and facilitate information, knowledge, and expertise sharing relevant to a particular topic or area of interest to achieve business outcomes.
Digital Acumen:
Develop digital workplaces and digital workforces, deploy technology that changes how people work, relate to each other, and learn using a wide variety of tools to build a digital organization, workforce, and workplace based on awareness of emerging technologies. Collaborate with IT and the business to integrate learning into the digital and automation strategies.
Learning Analytics:
With an understanding of the talent factors that drive performance, monitor business KPIs, talent metrics, and performance metrics and tell a story with data to influence and help the business make better strategic and tactical decisions and appreciate how learning initiatives are impacting business performance.  Provide employees with data to help them continue to improve.
Learning Measurement & Evaluation
: Ability to gather, analyze and report information regarding the impact of learning solutions against key business drivers and evolving strategic priorities. Ability to present information in a way that is meaningful to the organization, and to use learning metrics and analytics to inform organizational decision making.
Modern Learning Champion:
  Act as an advocate for L&D by messaging vison of Merck's learning culture by building people capabilities through relevant continuous learning experiences. Specifically focused on - Personalized Adaptive Learning, Modernizing the Learner experience, and integrating learning in the flow of work.
Current Employees apply HERE
Current Contingent Workers apply HERE
US and Puerto Rico Residents Only:
Our company is committed to inclusion, ensuring that candidates can engage in a hiring process that exhibits their true capabilities. Please
click here
if you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process.
For more information about personal rights under Equal Employment Opportunity, visit:
EEOC Poster
EEOC GINA Supplement?
OFCCP EEO Supplement
Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination
We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.
Search Firm Representatives Please Read Carefully
Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, also known as Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., Kenilworth, NJ, USA, does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All CVs / resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at our company without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of our company. No fee will be paid in the event a candidate is hired by our company as a result of an agency referral where no pre-existing agreement is in place. Where agency agreements are in place, introductions are position specific. Please, no phone calls or emails.
Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
No relocation
VISA Sponsorship:
Travel Requirements:
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Shift:
Valid Driving License:
Hazardous Material(s):
Number of Openings:
1
Requisition ID:
R169252
Job Requirements
(see job description above)

Company info

Sign Up Now - HRCrossing.com