Learning Solution Architect

Role Overview

• Collaborating with PDG’s Leadership, Sales, and Account Management teams to identify clients who would benefit from solution services and create strategies for client pursuits.
• Guiding the sales team through goal definition, opportunity identification, and the design of business performance solutions using problem-solving principles and experience.
• Determining the performance needs of the target audience and how those needs align with the overall business goals of the organization. Analyzing complex programs and making recommendations to streamline and enhance the learner experience.
• Designing and presenting learning, performance, evaluation, and communication strategies and solutions to clients.
• Performing needs analysis through interviews, focus groups, document review, technology evaluation, and additional discovery to determine gaps and opportunities in the performance of the target audience
• Leveraging emerging trends and technologies in solutions design by staying abreast of thought leadership via webinars, conferences, blogs, and articles. Supporting solution concepts with relevant research, literature, or experience.
• Creating solutions that solve business problems across a variety of learning modalities ensuring that these solutions link to our client's desired performance outcomes.
• Providing input, oversight, and guidance to the team building out the solution ensuring that the solution vision is fully realized.
• Engaging the client to understand strategic changes in their business and making recommendations for aligning the program to the changes; following through ensuring and the design team integrates newly aligned changes to learning solutions.

Requirements

• Experience working in the life sciences industries (pharma, biotech, or medical device) industries and/or experience designing sales performance solutions is required
• Master’s Degree in Learning and Development, Human Performance, or Organizational Leadership & Development is preferred; however, commensurate work experience will be strongly considered in absence of an advanced degree.
• Minimum of eight to ten years of experience in the areas of solution design, performance consulting, human performance technology, change management, or adult learning and development
• Strong communication skills, Builds strong relationships with internal and external customers easily.
• Outstanding leadership skills. Has the ability to influence without authority and can make suggestions that are valuable and are presented in such a way that makes the client feel fully committed.

Benefits

• PDG pays a generous hourly rate, and your invoices are paid on time regardless of when our clients pay us.
• We provide a wide array of tools and templates to make gigs easier for you while you work with us.
• Our team will make sure that you are set up for success with our thorough onboarding program and consultant toolkit.
• We treat our consultants like part of the family which they don’t find in their other clients.