Career pathways and a learning plan for process management
Heijmans engaged an external L&D specialist to develop clear career pathways and a learning plan across six levels of process management. The formats connect to the Heijmans Academy and are ready to use in development conversations.
Domain
Learning and development
Approach
Co-creation and validation
Deliverable
Pathways and plan
Within Heijmans, process management brings together employees at very different stages of development, from entry level roles to senior positions. The organisation already had function levels and expectations in place, but lacked a shared way to translate those into visible growth paths.
That made development conversations harder than they needed to be. Managers had limited tools to discuss progression clearly, while employees had too little visibility into what growth within the discipline could actually look like.
The challenge
Across six function levels, Heijmans needed career pathways and a learning plan that could support real conversations about development. The output had to fit the structure of the Heijmans Academy, work in practice for managers and remain maintainable by the team itself.
Blackbear's role
Blackbear first helped sharpen the scope of the assignment. The focus stayed on building the pathways and learning plan themselves, while new training design, long term implementation support and bespoke individual trajectories remained outside scope. From there, the work was organised around inventory, alignment with managers and validation with the target group, so the final formats would be both accurate and usable.
Result
For each of the six levels, visual career pathways are being developed together with a learning plan linked to the Heijmans Academy. The formats are built as practical tools for development conversations and can be updated independently when roles or training options change.
