Learning and Development Manager, Oceania

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Job Description

About Takeda

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best-in-class patient support programs. Certified as a Top Employer in Australia for eight consecutive years, we offer stimulating careers, encourage innovation, and strive for excellence in everything we do. Our values-based, collaborative workplace is united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

About the role

Are you passionate about developing talent and fostering a culture of lifelong learning across the enterprise?

As the Learning & Development Manager, Oceania at Takeda, you will evolve and lead the learning and development strategy to empower our customer facing and full enterprise teams to excel and deliver on business priorities.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Cultural Shift: Facilitate a mindset shift to embrace lifelong learning, the transition to skills-based organisation and the engagement with our digital learning platform.
• Customer Engagement: Elevate the customer engagement competency of our customer facing teams through targeted training and coaching initiatives.
• Strategy Development: Collaborate with local and global stakeholders to evolve and deliver the learning and development strategy in a rapidly changing environment.
• Needs Analysis: Conduct an organisational learning needs analysis to identify priority skills for capability uplift.
• Training Initiatives: Design, facilitate, measure, and continuously improve training initiatives. Leverage global resources.
• Onboarding: Deliver the onboarding of new employees
• Extended People Leader Development: Co-design and facilitate leadership workshops to hone the capabilities of our leaders.
• Communication: Create engaging communication campaigns to share initiatives and information transparently.
• Coaching: Coach leaders to build team effectiveness and personal development plans.

What we’re seeking:

• Experience: At least 10 years in Learning & Development, with experience in the pharmaceutical industry or a high-compliance environment with customer facing teams.
• Innovative Mindset: Ability to leverage modern adult learning methods to create capability programs that are as effective as they are engaging. You are a curious learner and proactively build your own levels of digital literacy and dexterity.
• Collaborative Spirit: Thrive in a matrix organisation, building strong relationships with stakeholders.
• Authentic Leadership: Natural influencer and storyteller with the ability to inspire and coach people at all levels.
• Strategic Toolset: Structured approach to project management, problem-solving, and change leadership.
• Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in an organisational development, learning or business discipline.

What awaits you:

We are committed to creating an exceptional employee experience, and we place your wellbeing at the heart of that:

• Work-life Balance: Flexible and hybrid work arrangements, including remote work opportunities.
• Growth and Development: Pursue rewarding career and development opportunities
• Generous Leave: Paid summer holiday leave, additional purchased leave, and gender-neutral paid parental leave.
• Inclusive Teams: Diverse and inclusive workplace fostering a strong sense of belonging. We aim for all employees to feel equally valued, supported, and celebrated. Your unique attributes—such as culture, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, and age—truly enrich our team, reflecting the diversity of our wider community.
• Attractive Salary & Benefits: Competitive remuneration packages and market-leading benefits.
• Stunning Workplace: Spectacular views of Sydney Harbour located at The Rocks

We welcome your application, even if you don’t have all of the required experience,and encourage you to email us if we can provide any reasonable accommodations to enable you to participate in this recruitment process.

If you're ready to play a pivotal role in shaping the capabilities of our workforce, we want to hear from you!

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