Learning & Talent Partner (MEA) - Urgent HR Jobs in Dubai

Job Description

About the job

Title: Learning and Talent Partner, MEA

Department: Learning, Leadership and Talent (HR)

Location: Dubai (minimum 3 days in the office) with travel requirements (circa 10%) to offices across MEA region, in particular to Jeddah and Riyadh.

Scope: Middle East and Africa Region

Reports to: Global Head of Learning and Talent

Line management responsibility: 1 Learning and Talent Advisor

Budget responsibility: Yes

The Team

The Global Learning & Talent 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 requirements.

The Role

This role serves as a strategic partner to the MEA region in designing and delivering effective learning solutions while supporting strategic global HR priorities and ensuring operational excellence.

Reporting into the Global Head of Learning and Development, 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 the Regional Head of HR, local HR Business Partners (HRBPs), Global Learning, Leadership and Talent team and regional Practice Group 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
 

• Regularly engage with key regional stakeholders to align the regional business priorities with global learning and talent projects.
• Review existing talent mapping initiatives, analysing data to identify gaps and opportunities for development and integrating findings into talent development strategies in collaboration with HR Business Partners in the region.
• Design and deliver engaging and relevant learning solutions for diverse audiences, partnering with external suppliers where required and ensuring alignment with existing content that is available globally.
• Design a strategy and approach for delivering team development days to drive higher performance and build cohesive teams across the region.
• Ensure that learning administration support delivered from the central service centre (UK based) is of a high quality and in compliance with regional and regulatory requirements.
• Provide line management support to the Learning and Talent Advisor, facilitating their professional growth and performance management, ensuring that their assigned projects are delivered effectively.
• Oversee the delivery and impact of the second phase of the hybrid KSA Trainee Programme in collaboration with the Global Learning and Talent team and key stakeholders, ensuring that mandatory requirements are tracked and reported.
• Provide project management and support to the Global Learning and Talent strategic priorities.
• Review effectiveness of existing global talent programmes and identify any gaps in the key career milestones of high potential talent in the region.
• Draw insights from metrics to enhance learning and talent initiatives and to make commercial decisions about future investments, ensuring programmes deliver value for money and the required impact.
• Oversee the firm’s external coaching offering and internal mentoring capability.
• Hold budget management responsibility for the regional allocation of learning and development costs.
• Oversee contracting and negotiations with key external suppliers in the region, in alignment with global requirements.
• Provide regular progress reports to regional and global leadership as required.
   

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experienced learning and development professional (experience in Manager/ Business Partner level) with experience of working in professional services environments.
• Demonstrated skills in facilitating and designing learning curricula and leadership programmes using the most up to date 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 budgets for learning and talent development initiatives.
• Prior experience of working with regional and global cross-functional teams in complex environments undergoing significant transformation and modernisation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to partner, advise and influence at all levels of the business.
• Strategically minded with strong attention to detail.
• A self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable in working at pace in sometimes ambiguous situations with strong project management skills and a solution focused, pragmatic approach.
• Accreditation with psychometric tools is desirable, e.g. Discovery Insights, Hogan.
   

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

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness
   

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimina