Skills Taxonomy Manager

Skills Taxonomy Manager

• Location London, United Kingdom

• Job ID 0000020410

• Category Human Resources

Job Description

Play your part in the LEGO Group’s pioneering skill-based approach to help thousands of employees develop and grow in their career.

The core purpose of this role is to maintain and manage a dynamic skills framework aligned with industry standards and organizational needs. If this matches your interests and skills, keep reading to learn more!

Please note: No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

Maintain and manage Skills Framework (keeping it current).

• Support implementation of a coherent taxonomy that categorizes and details all relevant skills across the organization and then helps manage it.

• Make sure the Taxonomy is aligned/integrated into existing people processes where relevant (example – Job Architecture, One Learning Plan).

• Update the taxonomy to reflect changing industry standards, labor market changes, organizational needs using the Skills Governance process.

• Assist Global Skills Architecture Lead to facilitate and chair the Skills Governance Forum and ensure the right Skills changes are made as per the processes set.

Stakeholder Collaboration.

• Work closely with HR People Partners, Learning & Development (L&D) and Skills Families, and Functional leaders within Business to understand skill requirements and ensure the taxonomy aligns with Business Goals.

• Collaborate with Business subject matter experts (Skills to accurately define and validate skills).

Skills Data Management and Analysis.

• Use data-driven approaches to identify skill gaps and opportunities for development by working closely with the People Analytics expert supporting Skills and Learning.

• Maintain an organized Workday database for tracking employee skills.

• Help set up, implement and maintain standard Skills reports and Dashboard insights for Functional Leaders, L&D, Skill Families and HR Partners.

Maintaining the Skills Solution Design with Technology Product owner and teams.

• Ensure the skills taxonomy is set up and working as per the LEGO U Solutions Design (SkyHive and Workday) and the right results are visible and available to colleagues, People leaders and HR partners.

• Support the development and deployment of tools and platforms that use the skills taxonomy. This could be new learning solutions being integrated to support Skills and Learning experience development.

Support Learning and Development and Skills Families.

• Guide the creation of learning and development programs based on identified skill needs.

• Provide inputs to career path frameworks and progression plans that use the skills taxonomy as an advisor.

Skills Compliance and Quality Assurance.

• Ensure the taxonomy meets industry standards (Outside in influence).

• Regularly review and refine processes to maintain accuracy and relevance with Business subject matter experts.

Promotion, Awareness and Process.

• Educate employees and leaders on the use and benefits of the skills taxonomy.

• Produce documentation and training materials to support its implementation and ongoing use.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Global Skills Taxonomy Manager will be responsible for developing, managing, and maintaining a comprehensive skills framework for categorizing skills within the LEGO Group. This role will be crucial in ensuring that the LEGO Group can effectively identify, assess, and develop the skills of its workforce depending on their PLANS.

Do you have what it takes?

• Several years of experience in HR (Human Capital Management), or skills management.

• Strong analytical and organizational skills.

• Proficiency in data analysis and familiarity with HR, Skills Inferencing tools and Solutions and Learning platforms.

• Excellent communication skills (proficiency in English) and collaboration abilities.

• Experience with taxonomy or classification frameworks is a plus but not a must.

• Travelling would be 10% and below across a business year.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you’re interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing – We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace – When you join the team you’ll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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