Senior Specialist

Location: Edinburgh, GB

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape.

For over 50 years our work has guided the decisions of the world’s most influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions and governments.

Now, with the world’s energy system more complex and interconnected than ever before, sector-specific views are no longer enough. That’s why we’ve redefined what’s possible with Intelligence Connected.

By fusing our unparalleled proprietary data with the sharpest analytical minds, all supercharged by Synoptic AI, we deliver a clear, interconnected view of the entire value chain. Our trusted team of 2,700 experts across 30 countries breaks siloes and connects industries, markets and regions across the globe.

This empowers our customers to identify risk sooner, spot opportunities faster and recalibrate strategy with confidence – whether planning days, weeks, months or decades ahead.

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The Talent Development Specialist ensures the effective day-to-day operation of the Talent Development function. The role coordinates the shared mailbox, learning management system, course calendar, training records and reporting, enabling the wider team to focus on delivering high-quality learning experiences.

The role provides a strong foundation in learning operations, facilitation, systems, data and reporting. It works with colleagues in India, the wider Talent Development team, facilitators, external course providers and learning-system vendors.

What You'll Do

• Manage the Talent Development mailbox, answering routine queries and routing the rest
• Administer courses and training in our LMS, bookings, enrolments and records
• Schedule internal and external courses, liaising with facilitators and vendors
• Track training spend against budget and flag anything that looks off
• Build and maintain reporting dashboards on usage, spend and feedback
• Produce a monthly update, what's coming up and news to promote across the team
• Support face-to-face delivery in India, including training junior colleagues there
• Focus on new AI tools that could make admin and reporting quicker

Key Relationship

• Talent Development team, your day-to-day team, supporting everyone's programmes
• Talent Development Lead, your line manager and mentor for growth
• India team, supporting our growing presence with training and materials
• External course providers & LMS vendors (Workday, Docebo) booking and admin

Skills & Experience

• Excel (strong)
• PowerPoint
• Dashboards & reporting
• LMS platforms, ideally Workday and Decebo
• Organised, with an eye for detail
• Curious about AI and new tools

About You

• Well organised, with strong attention to detail
• Confident with Excel, PowerPoint and building simple dashboards
• Keen to build a career in Talent Development
• Comfortable juggling several schedules and deadlines at once

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at www.eeoc.gov