21 Oct
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Manulife
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Waterloo
Position Responsibilities:
Driving future growth and AI Enablement(35%)
- Identifies and develops strategy synergy between training, sales and marketing for future focused growth, including increasing our digital footprint, competitive analysis, identifying pilot groups, research, testing and application with a focus on sales effectiveness
- Leads the exploration of emerging learning, performance, and enablement practices, identifying future capabilities, technologies, and approaches needed to support evolving sales audiences and business strategies.
- Evaluates, pilots, and applies emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools and performance support solutions, to improve learning effectiveness, capability development, and business outcomes.
- Collects sales data and marketing data to tie into the training team data, creating robust summaries to be shared out
- Questions the status quo and consistently looks for the most innovative and engaging solutions with continuous improvement mindset
- Builds capability strategies that anticipate future workforce, customer, and industry needs, ensuring learning solutions remain relevant and aligned to evolving business priorities.
- Work with L&D; Manager/s to oversee audience learning journey and career pathways in the organization
- Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders to anticipate needs across multiple businesses
- Proactively seek feedback from clients to continuously evolve and improve services provided individually and by the broader T&D; team
Facilitation and Learning Experience Design (35%)
- Facilitates high-impact learning experiences, workshops,
and strategic sessions that drive capability development, behaviour change, and business performance across sales audiences.
- Design consistent training solutions that meet the needs of the adult learners across multiple businesses, writing and editing content; testing solutions for readiness and usability
Enterprise and Sales Alignment & Strategy (30%)
- Uses performance data, learner insights, business metrics, and stakeholder feedback to evaluate capability development initiatives, measure impact and ROI, and inform future learning and enablement strategies.
- Performs the full consultation cycle by identifying capability and performance gaps, conducting needs analysis, recommending learning and non-learning solutions, and measuring business impact.
- Manages concurrent complex design projects from end to end; communicating with partners and key stakeholders, influencing and adhering to tight timelines and ensuring strong communication plan and workback schedules
- Demonstrates inclusive behaviors and provides opportunities to collaborate across teams
- Fosters an environment where team members share insights and generate ideas, to become more innovative and create value for business partners across the organization
- Maps road to readiness path including implementing change management tools where required, across multiple businesses
Required Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to facilitate engaging learning experiences and influence behaviour change through coaching, facilitation, and stakeholder consultation.
- Demonstrated curiosity and interest in emerging learning practices, technologies, AI-enabled tools, and future workforce trends.
- Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning principles, behaviour change strategies, and performance consulting practices.
- Strong critical thinking, needs analysis, and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify capability and performance gaps.
- Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and communication skills with the ability to influence and engage audiences at all levels.
- Robust organizational, consulting, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and complex initiatives.
- Experience translating business needs into scalable learning, performance, or capability solutions that support measurable business outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience facilitating workshops, leading discussions, or supporting behaviour change across diverse audiences.
- Demonstrated interest in future workforce trends, digital transformation, AI-enabled capability development, and emerging approaches to learning and performance.
- Experience in learning and development, sales enablement, organizational development, facilitation, performance consulting, or other capability-building functions.
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📌 Strategic Sales Capability Consultant (Waterloo)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Waterloo