Manager, Learning and Development

at  ABBYY

Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Innovation and excellence run through our veins, and you will work with experts who are creating market-leading technologies, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an advanced and sophisticated tech stack.
In this position you will shape ABBYY’s learning and development culture in support of our strategic objectives. This role will build and deliver a variety of learning programs, identify skill gaps needs and design programs that close these gaps and build ABBYY’s talent density. This role will be a key member of the People Leadership team and will be a trusted partner to business and HR leaders to identify learning needs and drive organizational performance.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• 8+ years of experience as L&D Manager or similar experience
• Proven experience in managing multi-stakeholder projects across all levels of the business, including remote collaboration
• Strong planning, leadership, project management and analytical skills
• Familiarity with e-learning platforms and practices, MindTickle is a plus
• Experience in driving learning campaigns from concept to implementation
• Experience in project management and budgeting
• Experience identifying and leading process and workflow improvements.
• Fluent English
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills; sharp business acumen
• Ability to build rapport with employees and vendors
• Data driven mindset

• Shape learning culture by partnering with People Partners, leaders and employees to understand and anticipate the company’s learning needs
• Design and develop learning programs and initiatives for both leaders and individual contributors that improve performance and facilitate organizational success
• Construct framework to conduct skill gap analysis and provide effective development solutions to build employee skills
• Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities; ensure the quantitative and qualitative feedback of employees and managers lay the foundation of the L&D activities
• Develop and implement various learning methods (e.g. coaching, mentorship, job-shadowing, online training) based on business needs and optimize LMS platforms and HRIS (in partnership with People Ops) to deliver programs at scale and measure effectiveness
• Work in close collaboration with People Team and leaders to oversee and streamline whole employee lifecycle, support employee engagement, goal-setting and performance management initiatives. Guide People Team and provide resources to deploy learning programs at a team, local or individual level
• Create framework for company-wide succession planning, and partner with People team to advise leaders
• Partners with key stakeholders in the business to regularly update content for compliance trainings, and drives annual training calendar utilizing our LMS, MindTickle