Instructional Designer

What we offer

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Magna is more than one of the world’s largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.

Introduction:
This role is primarily accountable for the design of a global training program to support one Magna Procurement strategy and standards. This role will work across Divisions, Groups, and business experts to align a program that sets consistent baseline knowledge and strengthens commercial performance.

• Program Design Consult with Business SMEs and Learning and Development (L&D) Team to conduct training needs assessment and identify critical knowledge and skills required for a set of key procurement roles.
• Define a scalable global training curriculum for each procurement role in accordance with Magna L&D design principles and standards.
• Design and develop training content (ex. presentation material, participant material, facilitator guides, manager guides, job aids, etc.) following the ADDIE model, including a feedback process from SMEs and critical Stakeholders at important design milestones.
• Using a blended approach, leverage up to date learning technology and multimedia tools (ex. Content authoring tools, virtual classroom, simulations, adaptive learning tools, audio, video, and graphics, etc.)
• Establish a process for maintaining and updating training material to ensure content is kept up to date, including any regional content customizations and language translations.
• Act as the central point of contact to manage the overall project and coordinate cross-group training activities.
• Establish a Procurement intranet site as a central entry point for all procurement related training and resources.
• Establish a Procurement communication hub to share relevant information to division/group/category
• Set up training evaluations consistent with L&D tools and processes, at all levels of the Kirkpatrick model and identify areas for improvement based on evaluation results.
• Vendor Management (if applicable) Collaborate with external partners to deliver quality content that aligns to the program learning objectives, L&D design principles, standards, and overall L&D strategy.
• Work with external eLearning providers as needed to curate content to compliment the program curricula.

• Practical experience and expertise in Procurement and / or Supply Chain
• Expertise in adult learning principles, instructional design process, learning evaluation and methods for measuring learning outcomes.
• University degree or college diploma in Business, Human Resources, Adult Education or related experience
• Expertise in content authoring, video creation and graphics software (ex. Articulate 360, video creation/editing tools, Adobe Captivate and other graphic design tools)
• Proficiency with MS Office 360 applications

• 5+ years’ experience in an Instructional Design role
• 5+ years’ experience in Supply Chain Management and / or Procurement.
• Experience working in complex de-centralized or matrix, multinational organizations an asset.
• Experi…