Global L&D Project Manager

Company Description

Publicis Groupe UK is a marketing and digital transformation business made up of 5,000 talented and versatile people with expertise in media, creative, influence, technology and data, working across 21 agencies.

Publicis Groupe UK creative agencies include Saatchi & Saatchi, BBH, Digitas, Leo Burnett and Publicis•Poke. Also, within the stable are PR agencies MSL and Kekst CNC and sustainability consultancy, Salterbaxter. Publicis Media is home to Zenith, Starcom and Spark Foundry as well as specialist practices PMX, Performics, Publicis Sport & Entertainment and Publicis Content, providing expertise across media strategy, investment, data and technology.

Langland, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness and Digitas Health serve clients across health and wellness, science and medicine. They combine expertise across advertising and branding, clinical trial experience, data and analytics, technology, medical strategy and education and public relations and policy. 

Employees share a common purpose, consistent ways of working and a financial structure that encourages collaboration.

In 2015 Publicis Groupe introduced the Power of One. Simplifying the traditional agency structure, the model removes silos between agencies and disciplines to put clients’ needs at the heart of the structure.

Job Description

Placed within the Global Learning and Development Team, the Global L&D Project Manager will be a key support in the management of the healthcare learning strategy for Publicis employees working across the Groupe in multiple markets outside of the US (Ex-US). You will report into the Global L&D Senior Business Partner, who reports into the Director of L&D for the Global Business.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end healthcare-related training, strategy development and cross-functional alignment (media, production, data)
• Help improve employees' understanding of Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) e.g. GPs and Physicians, and the role the play
• Support in the development of healthcare learning material and toolkits through strong collaboration with key stakeholders (Clinical Education, Regulatory, Legal, Medical, etc.)
• Build and manage the learning/onboarding community, ensuring that learning content is updated and communicated effectively
• Work with discipline and market leads to ensure that the learning needs and market nuances are being met and guiding teams through the right learning for their roles
• Provide professional project management support to ensure global project plans are designed and executed in line with planned time, cost and quality
• Work closely with external medical experts to better understand the medical compliance, essential for teams to be aware of
• Collaborate with the US L&D team working on healthcare learning to align on strategies, share content and then localise for Ex-US relevance
• Coordinate and schedule training sessions
• Facilitate and host training session within the Global Business team
• Manage the onboarding process from and L&D perspective

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar L&D training role, preferably within an agency environment
• Proven ability to build and deliver learning strategy that caters to a varied multi-channel team (many non-healthcare experts) with the support of your senior leader
• Willingness to participate in meetings to communicate the learning plan and address stakeholder concerns with a true partnership mindset
• Excellent storytelling capabilities with clear communication skills (written and verbal), to easily distil the complexities of the healthcare vertical
• Empathy and understanding of the learning needs across markets (e.g. different languages)
• Ability to work with technology, such as translation tools, to enhance training material
• Strong Microsoft skills (PowerPoint, Excel and Teams etc.)
• Familiarity with Legal, Regulatory and Medical parameters in multi-stakeholder matrix environment is advantageous