fairlife

fairlife

Senior Manager, Learning & Development

Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior

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About the role

  • Success in this role depends on influence rather than authority.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a consultative partner to HR business partners and functional leaders, conducting needs assessments and recommending solutions grounded in performance outcomes rather than activity.
  • Manage the L&D budget in partnership with the Senior Director, including vendor selection, contracting, and spend against plan.
  • Design and personally facilitate the senior leader curriculum, including executive and director-level development programs, cohort experiences, and offsite sessions.
  • Deliver additional instructor-led and virtual training across the organization as business needs arise, covering topics such as management fundamentals, coaching, feedback, change leadership, and team effectiveness.
  • Develop and coach internal subject matter experts and leader-facilitators to extend delivery capacity across the enterprise.
  • Program Design & Delivery
  • Build blended solutions that combine instructor-led sessions, digital and self-paced content, coaching, and on-the-job application.
  • Oversee external vendors, consultants, and assessment partners, holding them to scope, quality, and timeline commitments.
  • Ability to move between strategy and execution - building the plan and then building the content.
  • Facilitation and storytelling that hold a room and drive application.

Requirements

  • skills/qualifications required:

Compensation

  • Partner with the Senior Director, Talent Management to define, refresh, and execute the enterprise L&D strategy, including annual priorities, roadmap, and success measures.

Benefits

  • Learning Strategy & Partnership
  • Translate business and talent priorities into a coherent portfolio of learning programs, and recommend where to build, buy, or retire offerings.
  • Create a credible, high-trust learning environment for senior audiences, adjusting content and facilitation approach in real time to the level and needs of the room.
  • Own the full instructional design lifecycle - needs analysis, learning objectives, content development, facilitator guides, participant materials, and evaluation.
  • Utilize the learning technology and LMS content lifecycle in partnership with Technical Training including curation, assignment logic, and reporting.
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • Five or more years of progressive learning and development experience, including ownership of enterprise or multi-site programs.
  • Strong instructional design skills and fluency with adult learning principles.

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