Title:  Asset Management: Senior Learning and Development Manager (Cape Town)

About Nedgroup Investments

Nedgroup Investments is an award winning global investment manager with a growing footprint in Europe, offering a broad range of investment solutions to both retail and institutional clients. As a division of Nedbank Group Ltd, we leverage the deep investment and financial expertise of one of South Africa’s leading financial services groups.
Our in house offering comprises two main fund ranges. The Best of Breed™ range partners with carefully selected specialist fund managers, chosen for their ability to deliver consistent long term outperformance. These partnerships are typically long term, allowing managers sufficient time to execute and deliver on their mandates. Complementing this is our Core Range, which follows a disciplined, rules based (passive) investment philosophy. We are relentlessly focused on long term performance, with our primary objective being to deliver a superior investment experience for our clients.

Location

Role is based at the V&A Waterfront, Cape Town

Job Family

Career Stream

Organisational Effectiveness (Learning and OD)

Leadership Pipeline

Job Purpose

To create and manage the implementation of the Learning and Development strategy within business units to achieve business strategy.

Job Responsibilities

• Align and operationalise strategy for Cluster to meet objectives by interpreting the business, Group HR- and Group Learning and Development strategy.
• Design Business Unit/ Cluster Learning and Development Strategy and the implementation thereof.
• Address business needs by translating business requirements into Learning and Development requirements and by developing implementation plan/s.
• Bursary Management: Manage the end-to-end employee bursary process, including applications, approvals, funding, administration, stakeholder communication and reporting, ensuring effective governance and alignment to the organisation’s skills and capability priorities.
• Future Skills & Workforce Capability: Partner with business leaders and HR to identify emerging and future capability requirements within asset management and translate these into practical learning, reskilling and upskilling interventions.
• Strategic Workforce Planning: Lead and coordinate strategic workforce planning, working with business and HR leaders to assess current and future workforce requirements, identify critical skills and capability gaps, and develop practical workforce actions across build, buy, borrow and redeploy strategies.
• Capability Building: Design and implement capability-building strategies and programmes that strengthen critical and future skills across the asset management business, aligned to business strategy and evolving industry needs.
• Career Pathing: Develop and embed clear career pathways and capability frameworks that define the skills, competencies and development required for employees to progress across roles and levels, supporting internal mobility and talent retention.
• AI-Enabled Learning & Innovation: Lead the use of advanced AI within Learning & Development, including the design and creation of AI agents, automated learning solutions and AI-enabled self-service tools, to improve learning, knowledge sharing, productivity and the employee experience.
• Ensure culture survey results improve year on year.
• Ensure a client service culture through various by delivering world class service
• Ensure timelines are met as agreed with stakeholders.
• Provide agreed information, resources, professional advice and strategic contribution by analysing requirements and delivering Learning and Development solutions in the most cost effective manner, within agreed timeline and meeting financial and business objectives
• Ensure payment, analysing and approving all vendor invoices.
• Manage client relationships to enable strategy and address training needs.
• Engage with clients to determine and understand the learning needs that will address business objectives.
• Select and source vendors.
• Address identified business development needs.
• Ensure the development solution address requirements and ensure delivery within agreed timelines by contracting and negotiating with vendor/s, addressing any deviations.
• Create networks for building collaborative relationships.
• Optimise efficiency and embed the correct values by ensuring that team understand and support Nedbank' s vision, values and strategy.
• Manage performance of team and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their teams by implementing performance agreements and ensuring a clear vision
• Identify talent pool through conducting career conversations and utilising the talent grid principles and by developing talent retention programs
• Build depth of skills and knowledge in the team of managers by sharing knowledge and insight with team members
•  Achieve continuous improvement goals and create an environment whereby self, managers and team are encouraged to challenge the status quo by initiating constructive debates about work practices and areas for improvement.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

Honours Degree (HR Development, HR,  Education, Industrial Psychology, Business Management)

Minimum Experience Level

• 5+ years industry experience in Learning and Development 
• 5+ years experience in People Management 

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies

People Specification

We seek to employ highly motivated, capable, and quality focused individuals who perform effectively within a diverse, creative, collaborative, challenging, and dynamic environment. In line with our purpose of enabling investors to achieve their investment goals, Nedgroup Investments is committed to supporting employees in achieving their full potential and long term career development.
For this role, candidates should demonstrate:

• A high standard of personal presentation.
• Strong self-motivation and organisational capability, with the ability to adapt to and manage a broad range of challenges.
• The ability to interact effectively with both internal stakeholders and external clients.

Employment Equity Statement

Preference will be given to individuals from under-represented groups