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Training Strategy and Program Initiatives:- Leading site in implementation of training strategy and learning improvement projects. Provide structure for stakeholders in scope and measurement of success for these initiatives. Some scope of work done in this area include training effectiveness improvement, development plan metric tracking, core skill education, leadership foundations and effectiveness for people managers, mandatory training roadmap for operations employees.- Built series of programs for people managers of various experiences on Mindful Leader, Frontline Leadership, Manager Foundation Course, Real Talk Real Impact, Situation Leadership or Supervisory Skills Workshop to strengthen leadership effectiveness of the organization. - Implemented new courses such as Fearless Accountability and Critical Thinking as part of Organization Development and culture building.Competency Framework:- Developed and implemented Competency Framework for key operations departments. The competency definition and process enable systematic profiling of employees, leading to focused annual development plan.- The growth from this capabilities-building help employees with acquiring skills needed for their job, future skills for career movement and talent management.Management of L&D Function, Policy and Process:- Led team in managing end-to-end training processes, policy implementation, learning metric reporting and Learning Management System.- Managed New Hire Orientation (NHO) to on-board new employees in organization overview, department introduction, safety and quality expectations, site culture, pledge behaviors, and operational excellence.- Supported business units in learning needs analysis, identification of suitable courses or development of new in-house training program to support employees’ learning needs, intervention strategy or to fulfil quality compliance. - Managed site training budget and education sponsorship. Allocate budget to departments and track for usage. - Developed and implemented e-learnings or instructor-led trainings and coach subject-matter-experts in developing training materials.Lead Knowledge Management:- Led team to implement Knowledge Management portal for employees.Employee Engagement and Enterprise Sustainability:- Led Workstream actions to improve organization excellence and employees experience. - Member of site’s flagship employee engagement platform LIFE committee. Organized activities for employees to foster bond and sense of belonging.

Listed skills include Training Material Design And Development, Learning Needs Analysis, Conducting Teambuilding, Certified To Conduct Strong Inventory Tool, and 15 others.

• Training Manager At Abbott

  Abbott Nutrition

  Jun 2017 - Present - Singapore

  Site Training Manager for Singapore Abbott Nutrition Premier Plant.:Set up governance processes for employee development for work performance and competency building, act as consultant for training intervention solutions and lead projects in improving training effectiveness and excellence.1. Lead Knowledge Management for site.2. Developed Competency Framework for key stakeholders for systematic profiling of employees’ competency proficiency and annual development plans.3. Set up governance for end-to-end training processes. 4. Maintenance of training curriculums in Learning Management System.5. Manage learning programs and work with training vendors on relevant courses for employees.6. Implement Leadership Foundation for managers.7. Manage training budget.8. Coach SMEs in development of training materials and elearning content.9. Implement new courses such as Fearless Accountability, Critical Thinking as part of Organization Development. 9. New Hires Onboarding.10. Work with teams on employees engagement activities.11. Work with team on action plans to improve employees survey results.12. Lead training continuous improvement projects such as training effectiveness and digitalisation of training requests. 13. Conduct train-the- trainer and perform coaching for individual in-house trainers.