Associate Director Learning and Development

**GroupM Nexus**:
**Associate Director Learning and Development (Global Offshore - Latam Hub)**:
**Location**:Colombia - Bogotá**:
GroupM is the world's leading media investment company responsible for more than $60B in annual media investment through agencies Mindshare, EssenceMediaCom, Wavemaker and m/SIX. We are the #1 global buyer of all media, accounting for one in three ads placed around the world, and are therefore the largest media buyer across Google, Meta, Amazon, TenCent and Alibaba.

GroupM Nexus is the Performance organization that unites GroupM’s media activation capabilities (Search, Social, Programmatic, Commerce, Ad Ops, Digital I/O and Analytics), including proprietary solutions like Xaxis, Finecast (addressable TV) and INCA (influencer marketing), under a single operating structure. Globally, GroupM Nexus employs more than 9,000 biddable media specialists, of which 1500 are in Offshore Delivery Hubs in Mexico, Colombia, India, and Poland.

**About the role**

The Offshore hub in Latam is looking for an Associate Director Learning and Development (Global Offshore - Latam Hub). In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team of about 6 TA specialists to achieve the staffing requirements for the Latam hub. This role will have dual reporting to the head of Talent for Offshore hub and to the Associate Director Learning and Development (Global Offshore - Latam Hub) for GroupM Latam.

You will work to locate and attract the best and brightest talent to the Offshore hub by articulating the unique career opportunities available to specialists in the Offshore hub. You will need to be resourceful in meeting short-term spikes in demand coming from markets around the world. You will also have to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion within the TA team and in the profiles of specialists being hired. During peak hiring months, you will have to close 50-60 hires per month at different levels of seniority, and across different media activation specializations. The role gives an opportunity to work with Multiple stakeholders globally and focus on mid to senior positions.

**3 best things about the job**:

- Opportunity to work with the largest media investment holding company in the world, supporting a strategically important operating unit.
- Variety: You will work with a diverse range of talent across our businesses to understand their roles and requirements, constantly building your knowledge about the media industry.
- Team: Join a close-knit, world-class Talent team that will inspire and support you. To be part of a very dynamic HR team that has been adding value to the business through its strategy and HR initiatives y-o-y.

**Measures of success**:
**In three months, you would have**:

- Understood the GroupM local, regional and global operating model, with specific insight into GroupM Nexus Offshore vision and operations.
- Developed strong relationship and built trust with local and global stakeholders.
- Familiarized yourself with our current hiring approach and identify opportunities to improve upon it.
- Connect and build relationship with your internal team and with the rest of the GroupM India TA community which supports the local India operations.

**In six months, you would have**:

- You will have started making a significant business impact through your understanding, knowledge and initiatives.
- Created a talent pipeline for open and anticipated positions across Paid Search, Programmatic, Paid Social, Commerce, SEO and Analytics.

**In 12 months, you would have**:

- You would have successfully launched your most important and impactful TA strategy based on the needs of the agency.
- Created a network in the talent market.
- Understand the entire company's business context, composition, competencies, deliverables and their stakeholders and support leadership with hiring of key position

**What your day job looks like at GroupM**:

- Own end-to-end Talent Acquisition life cycle for all channels across geographies, with a strong focus on strategy, planning, driving fulfilment metrics and building world-class systems and processes.
- Provide leadership to the sourcing process across campus, volume, and niche hiring through all related channels of recruitment like an internal referral, job sites, media campaigns, and vendors.
- Continuously review, improve, and facilitate effective talent acquisition process yielding the best talent pipeline and efficient selection process to match current and future talent needs.
- Identify the skills and competencies required to support current and future business activities
- Develop relationship with hiring managers, global teams, and leadership level and strategically develop hiring plan for the unit.
- Planning off and on campus hiring to help build internal pipeline for the unit based on business requirement
- Competition mapping: Identify competition companies and gather key insights about their team structures and profiles
- Estab