Manager, Skills Acceleration
Position Summary...
The Manager for Skills Acceleration leads and executes on enterprise transformational learning programs and projects related to the acceleration of skills development. This leader consults with business partners, vendors, technology stakeholders, data scientists, learning design and delivery to develop enterprise solutions for learning. They will manage budgets, resources and timelines for end-to-end transformational projects and technology deployments associated with learning. They proactively plan for the integration of new skills to programs, courses and learning pathways. They manage resource requirements and support on-plan delivery of functional project budgets. They will at times lead temporary vendor or contract resources associated with projects and programs and will manage security reviews and contract sourcing for projects as required.What you'll do...
Contract Position - Temporary
1. Develops and executes upon project plans to support the full lifecycle of enterprise level transformational learning projects from inception through development, deployment, and evaluation. Manages internal projects and holds weekly project status meetings with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project timelines, project outcomes and budget are met. Meets with support teams regularly to forecast upcoming work and possible conflicts.
2. Works with business partners and internal learning team to proactively plan for the integration of new skills to existing programs, courses and learning pathways. Identifies third party content and existing content to support the creation of curated development pathways. Independently leads all required security reviews and contract sourcing for any third-party content providers.
3. Collaborates with peers on the evolution of the Design SLA and socializes all requirements and required commitments with stakeholders. Leverages a COE/ROR after every project to ensure we are gathering feedback and continually refining our approach. Works with translation to support requirements for bilingual deployment. Ensures QA for print materials and testers for online content are in place and managed on time and to expectation.
4. Researches, sources, initiates legal contracting and coordination of all technology approvals for new learning partnerships and technology integration for enterprise-wide solutions. Proactively manages resource requirements within projects and raises risks as appropriate. Supports in flow leadership of vendors and temporary design or technology project resources as required.
5. Adapts plans based on changing business priorities, is flexible and agile in creating solutions that best serve the needs of the business and end user while communicating clearly with all business partners about possible trade-offs.
6. Manages scope creep and difficult conversations with business partners while proactively maintaining positive work relationships and work environment through collaborative partnerships.
7. Keeps informed on new technology, content providers, shifting FoW capabilities and with global partners to identify new solutions and trends to incorporate within our strategy. Operates with an innovative mindset and a human centric approach to create proposals to enhance our 5-year plan.
8. Manages the design, deployment and facilitated delivery of skills programs and curated pathways in partnership with the horizon 1 learning experience team and against the requirements identified by the Talent, SSC HRBP and People Strategy Teams to support career development and role success profiles.
Qualifications
- Strong communication skills and proficiency in Microsoft programs
- Has experience working on multiple projects concurrently (various scales) and can quickly identify interconnectivity, resourcing, impacts, risks, and uncertainty
- Target focused with the ability to engage and motivate others to meet timelines
- Understands process, complexity and finding unique agile ways to come in on time
- Seeks continuous improvement with an innovative & agile mindset
- Strong relationship management skills. The successful candidate needs to be able to articulate all areas of the project, knowing when to escalate, push back but know when to be flexible
- Experience and comfort in working in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrates resiliency and growth mindset when under pressure
- Strong problem solving and analytical skillset, the ability to think differently about how to approach problems
- Experience working with the integration of new technology platforms and programs
- Experience with Design fundamentals (ADDIE Model, Learning delivery modality and pedagogy)
- Strong change management experience specifically around stakeholder management and communication
Minimum Qualifications...
Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.
Preferred Qualifications...
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Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.
Primary Location…
1940 ARGENTIA RD, MISSISSAUGA, ON L5N 1P9, Canada