Learning & Development Manager
Accountable for learning priorities, the programme portfolio, its evaluation and the learning and development team.
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomesNeeded in 1 of 3 tasks
- 2Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a changeNeeded in 1 of 3 tasks
All 3 tasks, where people get stuck and all 65 skills
Tasks
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Review supplier performance against contract obligations and recommend renewal or remedy
- Evaluate whether workplace learning changed performance
Where people get stuck
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
All skills
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
- Applying research ethics and participant consent
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Assessing data-service continuity and recoverability
- Assessing privacy risk through data protection impact assessments
- Assessing supplier dependency, data-handling and exit risk
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Choosing an analytical method to fit the question and data
- Classifying AI uses against regulatory obligations
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing experiments
- Designing implementable change plans
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating product outcomes and metric integrity
- Evaluating responsible AI use risks
- Evaluating supplier total cost and value
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Interpreting policy scope and delegated authority limits
- Interpreting supplier contract duties, terms and exposure
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Investigating procurement spend leakage and duplicate commitments
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Measuring campaign outcomes with valid denominators
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Variance analysis
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Weighing conflicting evidence by design strength
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Writing verifiable requirements and acceptance criteria
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
Leading Analytics and AI Change
Lead adoption, diagnose learning needs, coach and assure team capability.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomesNeeded in 2 of 6 tasks
- 2Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a changeNeeded in 2 of 6 tasks
All 6 tasks, where people get stuck and all 92 skills
Tasks
- Assess data and AI capability gaps in a function and plan their development
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Review supplier performance against contract obligations and recommend renewal or remedy
- Evaluate whether workplace learning changed performance
- Produce an accountable operating budget
- Oversee an automated or AI system in operational use and correct, restrict or withdraw faulty outputs
Where people get stuck
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
All skills
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
- Analysing business drivers and contributions
- Analysing costs, allocation and margin drivers
- Analysing error patterns and failure modes in models and AI systems
- Analysing pay equity with raw and adjusted pay gaps
- Analysing working-capital drivers and cash conversion
- Applying research ethics and participant consent
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Assessing data-driven fairness and bias
- Assessing data-service continuity and recoverability
- Assessing privacy risk through data protection impact assessments
- Assessing supplier dependency, data-handling and exit risk
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building driver-based financial forecasts
- Choosing an analytical method to fit the question and data
- Classifying AI uses against regulatory obligations
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Constructing a controlled cash-flow plan
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing auditable decision models
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing experiments
- Designing implementable change plans
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
- Diagnosing forecast accuracy and bias and comparing methods fairly
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating fitness and full cost of AI-assisted work
- Evaluating product outcomes and metric integrity
- Evaluating responsible AI use risks
- Evaluating supplier total cost and value
- Exercising human oversight of automated and AI outputs
- Explaining control types, dependencies and compensating controls
- Explaining how business events flow into accounting records
- Forecasting business trends and turning points for planning
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting averages, weighted measures and mix effects
- Interpreting budgets and planning assumptions
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Interpreting policy scope and delegated authority limits
- Interpreting supplier contract duties, terms and exposure
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Interpreting workforce metrics and populations
- Investigating anomalies
- Investigating procurement spend leakage and duplicate commitments
- Investigating workforce movement and attrition trends
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether and how to use AI for a task
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Measuring campaign outcomes with valid denominators
- Monitoring model fitness and drift
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and containing suspected personal data breaches
- Recognising cybersecurity threats to data work
- Recognising personal data and privacy duties
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptions
- Specifying AI transparency and explanation duties to affected people
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Variance analysis
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Weighing conflicting evidence by design strength
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Writing verifiable requirements and acceptance criteria
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Tool Path
Excel for Analysis and Decision Models
Build and check Excel workbooks others can trust.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Runs in
- Your browser
Skill Path
Leading Analytics and AI Change
Lead adoption, diagnose learning needs, coach and assure team capability.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI workNeeded in 5 of 5 tasks
- 2Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomesNeeded in 2 of 5 tasks
- 3Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a changeNeeded in 2 of 5 tasks
- 4Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning developmentNeeded in 2 of 5 tasks
All 5 tasks, where people get stuck and all 93 skills
Tasks
- Assess data and AI capability gaps in a function and plan their development
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Review supplier performance against contract obligations and recommend renewal or remedy
- Evaluate whether workplace learning changed performance
- Oversee an automated or AI system in operational use and correct, restrict or withdraw faulty outputs
Where people get stuck
All skills
- Diagnosing capability gaps from work evidence and planning development
- Evaluating learning transfer and performance outcomes
- Evaluating whether people understood, adopted and sustained a change
- Giving specific developmental feedback on data and AI work
- Analysing business drivers and contributions
- Analysing costs, allocation and margin drivers
- Analysing error patterns and failure modes in models and AI systems
- Analysing pay equity with raw and adjusted pay gaps
- Analysing working-capital drivers and cash conversion
- Applying research ethics and participant consent
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Assessing data-driven fairness and bias
- Assessing data-service continuity and recoverability
- Assessing privacy risk through data protection impact assessments
- Assessing supplier dependency, data-handling and exit risk
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building driver-based financial forecasts
- Choosing an analytical method to fit the question and data
- Classifying AI uses against regulatory obligations
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Constructing a controlled cash-flow plan
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing auditable decision models
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing experiments
- Designing implementable change plans
- Diagnosing forecast accuracy and bias and comparing methods fairly
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Estimating and challenging causal effects
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating fitness and full cost of AI-assisted work
- Evaluating product outcomes and metric integrity
- Evaluating responsible AI use risks
- Evaluating supplier total cost and value
- Exercising human oversight of automated and AI outputs
- Explaining control types, dependencies and compensating controls
- Explaining how business events flow into accounting records
- Forecasting business trends and turning points for planning
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting averages, weighted measures and mix effects
- Interpreting budgets and planning assumptions
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Interpreting policy scope and delegated authority limits
- Interpreting supplier contract duties, terms and exposure
- Interpreting trends and seasonality
- Interpreting workforce metrics and populations
- Investigating anomalies
- Investigating procurement spend leakage and duplicate commitments
- Investigating workforce movement and attrition trends
- Judging the materiality of defects and deficiencies for the intended use
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether and how to use AI for a task
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Measuring campaign outcomes with valid denominators
- Monitoring model fitness and drift
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and containing suspected personal data breaches
- Recognising cybersecurity threats to data work
- Recognising personal data and privacy duties
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Running sensitivity and break-even analysis on model assumptions
- Sampling and reviewing a team's work against standards
- Specifying AI transparency and explanation duties to affected people
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Testing, implementing and sustaining measured improvements
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Variance analysis
- Verifying AI-assisted outputs against sources
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Verifying project progress against accepted outcomes
- Verifying reports and dashboards before and after release
- Weighing conflicting evidence by design strength
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
- Writing verifiable requirements and acceptance criteria
All tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Power BI
- Workday
- Cornerstone OnDemand
- Docebo
- Coupa
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Tool Path
Excel for Analysis and Decision Models
Build and check Excel workbooks others can trust.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Runs in
- Your browser
Skill Path
Leading Analytics and AI Change
Lead adoption, diagnose learning needs, coach and assure team capability.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
About the role
Accountable for learning priorities, the programme portfolio, its evaluation and the learning and development team. Decides where learning budget goes and what evidence counts as a change in performance. Data and AI judgement sits in evaluation design and in governing AI-generated learning content.
Also called L&D Manager
