Sr. Manager, Learning & Development

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Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Manager of Learning & Development will lead efforts to advance enterprise learning strategies that build employee capabilities, support career growth, and drive business performance. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating impactful learning programs while partnering closely with HR and business leaders to ensure alignment with organizational goals.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Enterprise Learning Strategy & Program Design:

• Lead the development and implementation of learning programs that support leadership, professional, and functional capability development.
• Design blended learning solutions (e.g. virtual, instructor-led, e-learning) using modern instructional design practices.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to deliver scalable learning experiences.

Business Partnering & Learning Consultation:

• Build strong relationships with leaders, HR Partners, and subject matter experts to assess learning needs.
• Translate business priorities into actionable learning strategies.
• Serve as an internal L&D consultant on capability building and development planning.

Program Management & Delivery:

• Oversee the execution of enterprise-wide and targeted training initiatives, including logistics, communications, facilitator coordination, communications, facilitator coordination, and participant engagement.
• Support vendor sourcing and management, including contract execution and program evaluation.
• Ensure content is accessible inclusive, and aligned with organizational values and performance expectations.

Measurement & Continuous Improvement:

• Establish and track learning KPIs to measure the effectiveness and ROI of programs.
• Collect and analyze learner feedback and performance outcomes to continuously improve offerings.
• Support the development of dashboards and reports to share insights with HR and business leaders.

Qualifications

ESSENTIAL

• BA or BS degree in Organizational Development, Learning & Development, Business, Human Resources or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in the Learning & Development, including program design, facilitation, and measurement.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into effective learning strategies.
• Strong understanding of adult learning theories, instructional design principles, and emerging L&D technologies.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience managing LMS platforms, e-learning tools, and digital learning ecosystems.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with a results-oriented mindset.

PREFERRED

• Master’s degree in Industrial Psychology, Leadership Development or related field.
• Experience in a global organization with multi-region L&D strategy implementation.
• Certification in instructional design, digital learning technologies, or related L&D disciplines.

Additional Job Details

Management – M3

Organizational Impact

• Establishes tactical and operational plans with major impact on immediate or short-term results (e.g., less than 1 year)  towards and significantly influences the achievement of results of the department and/or job family
• Develops new products, processes, standards or operational plans in support of the job family group and/or department strategy
• Responsible for revenue and/or expenditures in a specific area or for the team. Additional oversight and review provided by next level of people leadership

Communication & Influence

• Communicates with parties within and outside of own job family or department, which may include external clients or partners depending upon the family/department
• Requires ability to influence others to accept the department’s or job family group’s view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches
• May require ability to communicate with senior leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the department

Innovation & Complexity

• Responsible for making moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems, or products to enhance performance of department and/or job family
• Problems and issues faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis, and investigation to understand the problem
• Problems are difficult and moderately complex. Problems typically impact multiple teams. Problems are typically solved by drawing from deep prior experience and analysis of issues

Leadership & Talent Management

• Manages a large team typically comprising experienced professionals
• Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for area of responsibility to ensure availability of talent necessary to accomplish departmental business results
• Typically has hiring, firing, promotion, and reward authority within own area, in accordance with corporate guidelines

Knowledge & Experience

• Requires broad management knowledge to lead project teams in the department
• Typically has deep-level knowledge and skills within a specific technical or professional discipline with broad understanding of other areas within the job family group/business unit
• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certification and 7 years of prior relevant experience

Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action at Nidec
Nidec is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, genetic information, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following website: http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf

No Soliciting

Nidec will not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third party recruiting agencies in response to Nidec job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers. Pre-approval from the Nidec Talent Acquisition team is required before any external candidate can be submitted and such candidate must be submitted to the Nidec Talent Acquisition team.