Talent & Development Functional Lead

**Talent & Development Functional Lead**

**Hybrid work
- 3 days from our Mississauga, Canada office**

**Reports to**:Learning Tech Service Delivery and Release Lead***

**1 Opening with Learning Systems, 1 Openings with Talent Technologies**

AstraZeneca (AZ) is transforming the future of healthcare by unlocking the power of what science can do. In support of this, we are growing our Operations and Technology Solutions team, a key part of our global Talent & Development (T&D) function which sits within Human Resources. Talent & Development is a fast-paced, creative, and purposeful environment where innovative thinking is encouraged. Our role is to develop every employee, manager, and leader, while also looking after the learning technology and the talent agenda for the company.

We’ve been on a transformational journey building a culture of lifelong learning, growing our capabilities, developing our talent, and designing an integrated learning technologies infrastructure. Now we are looking to consolidate our new ways of working, delivering value for the business by having the right talent available at the right time and helping to unlock the potential in everyone every day.

**Responsibilities**:
**Learning Systems Product Ownership**
- Act as the system product owner for AZ global learning systems that are both being implemented and/or are already live (i.e. Degree, Xyleme, Realizeit, Cornerstone SBX)
- Supervise the configuration of our global learning systems ensuring that they are successfully implemented, maintained, and integrated with our learning systems ecosystem, as well as, ensure a seamless user experience for learning and administrators
- Work directly with the business to capture an understanding of their learning system requirements and assists in the configuration and implementation of the platform

**Learning System Integration**
- Partner with global IT to coordinate the integration of learning systems and technologies (i.e. content authoring tools) to facilitate smooth data flow, interoperability, and integration with existing learning ecosystem platforms, HR, and talent management systems.

**Requirements Gathering and Analytics**
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and analyze business requirements for learning systems
- Translate these requirements into functional specification system design, and implementation plans
- Ensure that the learning systems meet the needs of diverse user groups, including learners, instructors, administrators, and managers.

**User Acceptance Testing**
- Own the test strategy and plan for product enhancement releases. Guide test scope/strategy for new solution implementations.

**Vendor Management**
- Manage relationships with learning system vendors, including vendor selection, and ongoing vendor performance evaluation
- Collaborate with vendors to ensure successful implementation, customization, and support of learning technologies.

**Data Analytics and Reporting**
- Leverage learning system analytics and reporting capabilities to gather insights, measure learning effectiveness, and provide actionable recommendations for continuous development.

**Essential Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5 years + experience in gathering and analyzing business requirements, translating them into technical specifications, and leading system implementation projects
- Familiarity with learning standards, and protocols such as SCORM, xAPI, etc.
- Strong networking, communication, and relationship-building skills, with experience in collaborating and sharing knowledge between diverse teams
- Ability to interpret and communicate complex information in business language
- Strong detail orientation
- Experience working within matrix project teams, including virtual working with teams across multiple regions

**Desirable Qualifications**
- Experience with popular LMS and LCMS systems

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