Learning and Talent Partner, APAC

The Team

The Global Learning & Talent team serves over 5,000 people from over 60 offices across both fee

earner and business services teams and provides specialist advice and learning solutions across

a broad remit including: professional core skills training, continuing legal education, talent

development programs, talent planning, coaching, career development initiatives and practice

area or business specific requirements.

The Role

This role serves as a strategic partner to the APAC region in designing and delivering effective

learning solutions while supporting strategic global HR priorities and ensuring operational

excellence.

Reporting into the Head of Learning and Talent Delivery, the role will apply thought leadership,

project management and strong facilitation skills to successfully design and deliver talent

programmes and business change initiatives across learning, leadership and talent. Deep

expertise of managing, designing and delivering across all phases of the learning cycle is

essential, including ROI and learning metrics.

Adopting a trusted advisor approach, the role will collaborate closely with the Regional Head of

HR, local HR Business Partners (HRBPs), Global Learning and Talent team and regional Practice

Group stakeholders to identify and address specific learning and talent development needs

across the firm. The role will focus on equipping stakeholder groups with essential professional

development and behavioural skills, enabling them to deliver exceptional client services.

Key Responsibilities

. Regularly engage with key regional stakeholders to align the regional business priorities

with global learning and talent projects.

. Review existing talent mapping initiatives, analysing data to identify gaps and

opportunities for development and integrating findings into talent development strategies

in collaboration with HR Business Partners in the region
. Design and deliver engaging and relevant learning solutions for diverse audiences,

partnering with external suppliers where required and ensuring alignment with existing

content that is available globally.

. Lead the design and delivery of team development and strategy days to drive higher

performance and build cohesive teams across the region.

. Provide direct support to partners and regional leadership, working in collaboration with

Partner Relations, to facilitate coaching, leadership development and strategic team

effectiveness initiatives that strengthen leadership capability and support high

performing teams across the region.

. Ensure that learning administration support delivered from the global business services

centre is of a high quality and aligned with APAC operational processes and in compliance

with regional and regulatory requirements.

. Provide coaching and support to the Learning and Talent Advisors and Senior Advisors

when working on projects together in the global team, facilitating their professional

growth and performance management, ensuring that their assigned projects are delivered

effectively.

. Oversee the delivery and impact of the Early Careers Curricula in collaboration with the

Early Careers Programme Lead and other key stakeholders ensuring that mandatory

requirements are tracked and reported.

. Provide project management and support to the Global Learning and Talent strategic

priorities, ensuring effective implementation and adoption across the APAC region.

. Review effectiveness of existing global talent programmes and identify any gaps in the key

career milestones of high potential talent in the region, including supporting regional

succession planning and leadership pipeline development.

. Draw insights from metrics to enhance learning and talent initiatives and to make

commercial decisions about future investments, ensuring programmes deliver value for

money and the required impact.

. Oversee the firm's external coaching offering and internal mentoring capability, including

supporting internal coaching and career development conversations for lawyers in the

region where appropriate.

. Hold budget management responsibility for the regional allocation of learning and

development costs.

. Oversee contracting and negotiations with key external suppliers in the region, in

alignment with global requirements.
. Provide regular progress reports to regional and global leadership as required, including

updates on regional learning initiatives, programme impact and emerging capability

needs across APAC.

. Work in partnership with Business Development colleagues to support the development

of lawyers client relationship and business development capabilities, aligning learning

initiatives with the firm's client growth and key account priorities.

. Support the implementation and embedding of the firm's performance management

framework and performance coach role by developing capability in areas such as

feedback, coaching conversations, objective setting and development planning across

the region.

. Oversee regional Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements where

applicable, working with office managers and relevant stakeholders to ensure

compliance with local regulatory obligations while aligning CPD activity with broader

development priorities.

Essential Skills & Experience

. Experienced learning and development professional (experience in Manager/ Business

Partner level) with experience of working in professional services environments.

. Demonstrated skills in facilitating and designing learning curricula and leadership

programmes using the most up to date methodologies and technologies, tailoring to

specific audiences.

. Proven track record in partnering with external suppliers to source high quality learning

solutions and managing these relationships.

. Demonstrated experience in effectively managing and allocating budgets for learning and

talent development initiatives.

. Prior experience of working with regional and global cross-functional teams in complex

environments undergoing significant transformation and modernisation.

. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to partner, advise and influence at all levels

of the business.

. Strategically minded with strong attention to detail.

. A self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision.

. Comfortable in working at pace in sometimes ambiguous situations with strong project

management skills and a solution focused, pragmatic approach.

. Accreditation with psychometric tools is desirable, e.g. Insights Discovery, Hogan.