Training and Development Specialist (LEGO Education)

Job Description

Are you passionate about creating and implementing training programs?  

These might be the opportunity to bring your fresh ideas and expertise that help us in our journey to achieving greater goals.  

Play your part in our team success!  

The Training and Development Specialist is responsible for improving the productivity and effectiveness of all roles within the US LEGO Education team, with an emphasis on upskilling and increasing performance, with the greatest focus on our direct selling team. It assesses organization-wide developmental needs to drive training initiatives and identify and arranges suitable training solutions for employees.  

In this role, you are expected to actively evaluate, creatively design, and implement effective methods to educate and enhance performance, with a primary focus on direct selling roles. You will need to apply the most effective modalities to deliver and measure the effectiveness of training and development being administered as the utilization of more than one modality will be required. This role will report to the Head of Sales Operations & Enablement.  

Core Responsibilities  

• Support the development and continuous improvement of a comprehensive training strategy by identifying training needs, creating, recommending, and implementing solutions.  
• Own the employee onboarding program that focusses on optimizing performance in key selling roles.  
• Plan, coordinate, calendarize and facilitate training programs.  
• Conduct standardized assessments to measure the effectiveness of training programs.  
• Design and apply systems and tools for the effective delivery and assessment of training programs. 
• Work cross-functionally with key partners to identify training needs and implement effective programs.  
• Perform all activities in accordance with the LEGO Group’s brand, ethical and legal standards, including relevant policies (such as those related to undue influence; gifts, hospitality & entertainment; engagement with public officials and funding; and conflicts of interest, among others) and laws.  

Do you have what it takes?  

• Experience in designing and implementing employee development programs.
• Experience with Direct Selling Methodologies and/or Certification in Professional Learning preferred. 
• Highly effective and proven presentation skills with experience in facilitating both in person and remote/virtual training programs. 
• Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods. Experience with online coaching platforms such as Rehearsal preferred.
• Proven project management experience.
• Good communication skills both verbally and in writing and comfortable in presenting complex ideas and conduct persuasive presentations in English. ​

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Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $75,436.00 – $113,154.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you’re interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme

Your workplace – When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                           
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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