KONE is a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry: our job is to make the world’s cities better places to live. At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators, and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization, which add value to the life cycle of any building.

The People & Communications team enables business performance and competitiveness through engaged and capable people, strong reputation management, impactful internal and external communications and great employee experiences. We bring KONE’s strategy to life, supporting competence, capability and culture development as well as strengthening the KONE purpose and company story for all our stakeholders. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work across a diverse range of topics, while also working closely with our businesses, to help drive the People and Communications agenda.

We are now looking for a

Global Leadership and Change Management Trainer

to the Global Learning & Development (L&D) team.

Our Learning and Development Center of Expertise (L&D Co E) is one of the key organizations involved in competency development and needs to evolve its way of working as to how it supports the changing capability requirements of the business. This new role presents an exciting opportunity to join the L&D team!

Global Leadership and Change Management trainer supports the development and deployment of KONE Leadership and Change Management learning offering and delivers impactful learning to internal trainer network, management and employees. Global Leadership and Change Management Trainer collaborates with other L&D colleagues, P&C teams, business stakeholders, and external RTO’s (R egistered Training Organizations) to scale delivery of our global offering to achieve business outcomes, agreed targets and Key Performance Indicators.

This role reports to Learning offering manager, Leadership and change management .

As the scope of the role is global, we are flexible in terms of location, but preferably this position is based in Espoo, Finland.

Responsibilities and key activities:

Deployment Responsibilities

• Schedule, facilitate and evaluate leadership and change management offering to global audiences that are approved with global P&C and business stakeholders.
  
• Schedule, facilitate and evaluate leadership and change management offering train-the-trainer sessions with Area and Frontline colleagues responsible for facilitating offering in their geographies.
  
• Drive consistent global leadership and change management outcomes by advising Area and Frontline L&D colleagues how to contextualize global offering to meet local culture, learner and business needs.
  
• Where required, support vendors and RTO’s retained by Area and Frontlines to deliver aligned content and outcomes to global leadership and change management and business strategy.
  
• Build, support and nurture a Leadership Trainer Community that focuses on developing the facilitation and domain capabilities of our internal trainers to deliver impactful leadership learning experiences.
  
• Oversee the running of the regular leadership trainer community and network meetings.
  
• Drive engagement with the Leadership trainer community Teams channel creating an online community that supports and collaborates with each other to improve the delivery of Leadership programs.
  
• Manage the members of the network ensuring there is a current view of active members.
  
• Provide support to the change practitioner network to ensure they are up-to-date with current global change management learning offering and are equipped to support scaling deployment to the areas and frontlines
  

General Responsibilities

• Advocate and promote the global leadership offering while role modeling the leadership principles and competencies.
  
• Collaborate with global KONE change management business owners to drive competence development, improving change management maturity across the business.
  
• Contribute ideas and feedback from delivery teams on how to improve the offering to deliver defined outcomes.
  
• Collaborate with leadership trainer, change management practitioner networks and Ask HR to maintain Workday Learning data hygiene according to agreed common process and data quality requirement.
  
• Partner with leadership trainer and change practitioner networks to ensure there is discipline in capturing and recording learning evaluation according to global process and data quality requirements.
  
• Keep up to date with learning, leadership and change management research and trends to provide input to drive continuous improvement of global offering
  
• Explore, implement and promote the use of new digital learning methods in own responsibility area (e.g. mobile learning, gamification, VR, MOOCs).
  

Requirements for the role:

• L&D background either from Unit HR or L&D Centre of Expertise or L&D Services roles, minimum 3 years of professional experience in a learning and development role.
  
• Knowledge of all L&D disciplines (Instructional Design, Facilitation, Adult Learning Principles, Learning Evaluation).
  
• Demonstrated intermediate to advanced leadership experience and capability.
  
• Ability to effectively identify leadership capability development opportunities and effectively communicate the commercial value of relevant learning interventions to business stakeholders.
  
• Proven track record of organizing and facilitating leadership and change management training programs for mid-level managers and experience in train-the-trainer sessions.
  
• Intermediate to advance level of Change Management experience
  
• Prosci Change Management Practitioner Certification preferred
  
• Awareness of capabilities needed to work cross cultures in a global matrix organization; excellent collaboration and business partnering skills across diverse cultural in multiple geographies.
  
• Solid understanding of learning assessment and evaluation.
  
• Solid understanding of learning and development trends and a genuine interest to grow into expertise area.
  
• Proactive way of working with ability to work independently, advanced level of facilitation skills.
  
• Ability to travel on business occasionally
  

Want to #joinourflow?

KONE is building up a unique community, aiming to provide the most advanced People Flow® solutions for its customers and lifting the customer experience to the top. At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual and where we share actively ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and a daily practice. KONE is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We are proud to offer a range of opportunities that will support you in achieving your career and personal goals. We believe in improving performance through inspiring, engaging and developing our people.

You now have an excellent opportunity to join a group of competent colleagues, work in a truly global environment and be part of the journey in building the leading brand in people flow. At KONE you will be working in a supportive and friendly atmosphere and have flexible working hours to support your work & life balance. We offer comprehensive KONE benefits to our employees.

We´d love to hear from you!

For more information on the position, please contact the Hiring Manager, Global Learning Offering – Leadership & Change Nick Theori via email nick.theori@kone.com or by calling +61416669242 (please notice UTC+10 timezone).

If you see this as an inspiring chance, please submit your application with your CV and cover letter by October 20th 2024 via our Careers site.

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At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

Read more on www.kone.com/careers