Hourly rate: $85-$125/hr paid corp to corp or 1099 (commensurate with experience)

About PDG

Performance Development Group (PDG) is an award winning, global leader helping Life Sciences companies improve business results through improving sales performance. Recognized as a premier company in our field, we provide collaborative advisory services and innovative sales performance solutions that help our clients to exceed their business goals.

Here at PDG, we complement our learning and creative teams with professional consultants who help us to scale effortlessly, optimize creativity and deliver award winning learning programs. Our network of consultants love to work with us and here are some of the reasons why they find a relationship with PDG to be so valuable to them:

• Variety is the spice of life: PDG’s wide variety of learning projects gives you the opportunity to be a part of the design and development of award-winning programs that help to move the needle on employee performance while enhancing your experience and skills
• We enable you to "stay in your lane": We have a super star team of salespeople who work with some of the most exciting companies in the world. We handle all the business development, scoping, and proposal writing so you can focus on doing what you enjoy doing the most.
• The devil is in the details: We contract with the clients and handle all the logistics, absorbing the risk so you don’t have to worry about a thing. We also provide a wide array of tools and templates to make gigs easier for you while you work with us. Our team will make sure that you are set up for success with our thorough onboarding program and consultant toolkit.
• We show you the money!!: PDG pays a generous hourly rate, and your invoices are paid on time regardless of when our clients pay us.
• We are just nice: When we ask our professional consultants what they like best about working with PDG, we always hear that our team is super friendly, and we treat our consultants like part of the family which they don’t find in their other clients.

PDG is pipelining Contract Performance Consultants to join our network of talent to support PDG’s ongoing needs. The work to be performed will be on a project basis and will be paid on a 1099. This job posting is to attract pipeline candidates only and not for a specific need.

Position Summary

The Contract Performance Consultant assists companies in gaining maximum value from their people by designing and overseeing the implementation of innovative business-oriented learning solutions. The goal is to improve human performance and as a result, the business. These solutions may include learning and development recommendations, curriculum design, performance improvement and measurement strategies, and change initiatives. Working with internal PDG resources and the client, the Performance Consultant is passionate about improving performance and maintaining standards of excellence in all project deliverables.

Responsibilities

The Contract Performance Consultant will:

• Collaborate with PDG VPs of Business Development and Engagement Managers, and clients to define the business objective, the assessment process, identification of structural and cultural changes; and the learning recommendations required to achieve business objectives.
• Guide and work with clients through goal definition, opportunity identification, and learning solutions using problem-solving principles and experience.
• Create actionable solution designs that solve client issues such as learning journeys across a variety of media and program modification for extensive system changes, ensuring the link to our clients' performance outcomes.
• Use diagnostic and assessment tools, analyze textual and numerical data, identify root causes/trends, and create a simple, effective summary/design for the client to solve their challenges.
• Plan and manage efforts to define organizational processes, capabilities, change management, application of key technologies, and performance metrics.
• Design and present learning, performance, evaluation, and communication strategies and solutions to clients.
• Analyze complex programs and make recommendations to streamline and enhance the learner experience.
• Engage the client to understand strategic changes in the business and make recommendations for aligning the program to the changes; follow though by ensuring design team integrates newly aligned changes to learning solutions.
• Build business cases and monitor achievement of strategic, financial, and operational benefits, ensuring planned business outcomes are achieved.

The Contract Performance Consultant will have expertise in:

• Problem Solving Methods and Learning Needs Analysis
• Diagnostic and Assessment Tools
• Solution Design
  • Curriculum Analysis, Mapping, and Design
  • Thought Leadership
  • Design Thinking
  • Business Solution Strategy
• High Performing Learning Organization Acumen
• Change Management
• Learning Modalities
• Learning Technologies

Education and Professional Experience

The Contract Performance Consultant has:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related discipline, Master’s Degree in Learning and Development, Human Performance, or Organizational Leadership and Development preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience working with large corporations (not academia or K-12) the areas of performance consulting, adult learning, human performance technology, change management, or training and development
• Experience in the Life Sciences Industries strongly preferred

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