Performance & Learning Solutions Manager

Company: Fortive
Location: Washington
Posted on: April 12, 2025

Job Description:

Fortive is seeking a knowledgeable and dynamic Performance and Learning Solutions professional to support our commitment to cultivating leadership excellence and fostering a culture of continuous learning. Reporting to the Senior Director of Global Talent Development and Learning, this influential, highly visible role will design and implement strategic solutions that support the workforce to meet the evolving needs of the business. This individual will lead the full lifecycle of development experiences - from needs analysis, to design and delivery, impact evaluation, reporting, and cross-functional stakeholder management and socialization. The leader will contribute at both a hands-on and at a strategic level to shape the future of leadership development and learning at Fortive in ways that are aligned to the broader talent strategy.Responsibilities:

• Design and implement strategic learning solutions that align with business needs, following best practices to drive employee growth and development that result in improved business performance.
• Act as a performance and learning consultant to business leaders, ensuring learning programs address critical capability gaps found in organizational strategic talent planning and assessment data.
• Measure effectiveness of initiatives by managing a comprehensive evaluation framework, including business impact and ROI of solutions.
• Facilitate in-person and virtual summits, workshops, and learning experiences for global audiences.
• Manage enterprise-wide solutions that impact a variety of stakeholders, which requires strong project management and organizational change management capabilities.
• Build and maintain relationships with key influencers and stakeholders to effectively manage initiatives and stay abreast of organizational needs.
• Develop people and stakeholders through effective leadership, coaching, mentoring and performance assessment at all levels.
• Consult with subject matter experts to formulate program scope and technical support necessary to support performance and learning solutions.
• Manage a pool of subject matter expert vendors (e.g., coaches, consultants, facilitators) in the deployment of performance and learning solutions. Evaluate effectiveness of vendors and continuously align vendor capabilities to address the needs of the organization.
• Collaborate with business leaders, other HR Centers of Excellence, and the Fortive Business System Office to identify and address current and future learning needs, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with business leaders, HR vice presidents, HR business partners to identify and remove obstacles related to learning content, technology, and program implementation.
• Integrate performance and learning priorities across the talent lifecycle and within embedded employee experience moments.
• Leverage the latest learning technologies, including artificial intelligence, to enhance learner experiences, support knowledge retention, and sustain behavior change.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and professional growth by increasing visibility and accessibility to existing learning resources.
• Lead process improvements by evaluating and enhancing learning strategies, frameworks, and operational workflows.
• Administer, forecast, and manage budget for performance and learning initiatives.
• Design and continuously optimize the key operational frameworks and processes of the COE to improve effectiveness and quality of service delivery.You're Good At:
  • You have a customer-centric approach, viewing people leaders and employees as clients and ensuring that performance and learning solutions contribute to organizational success.
  • You thrive working autonomously yet also love to collaborate - you are self-driven, anticipating challenges or bottlenecks and are planning effectively around them.
  • You think systematically about implementing solutions across the enterprise - with strong project management expertise, ability to escalate risks to leadership, and ability to bring various stakeholders together to co-design towards the solutions that work best.
  • You are excited to manage multiple priorities and drive results in a fast-paced environment, while working together with a high-performing team.
  • You are skilled and able to learn new technologies and systems quickly and willing to try things to see what works, what does not and how we can make things better.
  • You build strong working relationships across seniorities and quickly gain trust with your key stakeholders.
  • You keep an open mind, embrace change positively and flex to different situations.
  • You have an entrepreneurial mindset and a continuous learning orientation. You are excited to co-create the Center of Excellence as it matures over time and are motivated to grow yourself alongside it.Basic Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Development, Business Administration, Learning & Development, Education, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
    • Relevant experience through one of the following: Professional services role with a global management consultancy firm or niche consultancy, internal leadership development, or learning and performance role in industry or related line role in industry, in which you gained exposure to and led large-scale, highly visible projects.
    • Must have 2 years of experience in advising and guiding organizations on complex transformation programs with key domain expertise in change strategy, business readiness, business adoption, visioning, execution, stakeholder management, and communication.
    • Must have 2 years of experience managing a team of professionals.
    • Must have 1 year of experience presenting and interacting with executive audiences to achieve sponsorship and leadership alignment on initiatives.
    • Strong knowledge of human performance, adult learning theory and instructional design principles.
    • Experience with a variety of learning modalities, including e-learning, virtual classrooms, in-person training, and embedded on-the-job learning.
    • Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to inspire across diverse stakeholder groups and learning styles.
    • Strong writing and organizational skills.
    • Experience working in global team environment with multiple time zones.
    • Willingness to travel up to 25% of the time, if needed.Preferred Qualifications:
      • Certification in Human Performance Improvement, Executive Coaching, Change Management or similar area of expertise.
      • Advanced degree in Adult Learning, Organizational Development, or related field preferred.
      • Broad experience and specific knowledge of organizational transformation, organizational design, talent management, employee experience, learning and performance management.
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