Training Program Sourcing Manager

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do. 

We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day.

That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way.

Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.
 

The Training Program Sourcing Lead at John Holland secures and manages external training providers to ensure quality, cost-effectiveness, and compliance with accreditation and company standards. This role involves vetting providers, negotiating rates, and maintaining partnerships, while overseeing training quality and alignment with industry regulations. The Lead ensures all tasks are organized, timely, and meet John Holland’s high training standards.

 Establish Partnerships:

• ­    Identify and assess potential external training providers that meet the needs of project training requirements, ensuring they comply with RTO, industry and John Holland’s quality training standards and needs. 
• ­    Negotiate, obtain and uphold best possible terms, including competitive rates, without compromising on quality of training delivered. 
• ­    Maintain strong relationships with these providers to facilitate ongoing collaboration and service improvement.  

Quality Assurance: 

• ­    Implement and maintain quality control processes to ensure that all training meets or exceeds John Holland’s and industry standards. 
• ­    Develop metrics and evaluation processes to measure the effectiveness of training providers and courses. Collect feedback from participants and stakeholders to inform future training partnering decisions.

Reporting & Record Keeping: 

• ­    Maintain records of all training organisations, agreements, communications, and evaluations. 
• ­    Prepare reports when required on training provider performance, cost-effectiveness, and compliance.
• ­    Supply training information / data to support reporting efforts as required.

Training Provider List: 

• Maintain a comprehensive list of training providers used at John Holland, including
  • National Partnership organizations
  • Preferred Provider Panel – listing all vetted training organizations. 
  • Market Place Panel – new providers yet to establish themselves on the Panel.

Qualifications: A qualification or degree in business, human resources, training (Cert IV TAE), or a related field. Highly Desired Certifications in procurement or quality assurance.

Knowledge & Experience    

• Construction Industry Knowledge: Specialized knowledge of construction industry training.
• Training Standards & Compliance: Understanding of the Australian Qualification Framework (AQF), RTO certification and regulatory / legislative requirements relating to construction industry training.
• Vendor Management: Knowledge of sourcing, evaluating, and managing relationships with external vendors, including negotiation skills and contract management.
• Budget Management: Experience in optimizing costs and ensuring a good return on investment for training expenditures.
• Project Management: Skills in organizing, managing, and tracking multiple initiatives simultaneously, often under tight deadlines.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Capacity to interact well with a variety of external and internal stakeholders, including training providers, accreditation bodies, government agencies and industry experts. 
• Performance Evaluation: Experience in developing and implementing evaluation metrics to assess the effectiveness of Training Programs.
• Quality Assurance: Familiarity with quality assurance methodologies and experience in implementing processes to ensure training quality and effectiveness.
• Learning & Development Best Practices: Awareness of current trends, technologies, and methodologies in training and professional development.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.  We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority. 

 We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits. 

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.  Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.  Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.  Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.  Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation. Flexible working that works for you as we know flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.