Director, Learning & Strategic Capability Building

Overview

As Director, Learning & Strategic Capability Building, you translate strategy into a multi-year capability roadmap and develop a scalable skills architecture. You lead end-to-end learning programmes, embedding future skills across the business through diverse modalities. You work with senior stakeholders to align capability priorities and enable enterprise reskilling, including AI and digital fluency. This role combines strategic influence with hands-on delivery to drive sustainable capability growth in a global, matrixed environment.

Pay / Benefits

• Career development
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Pay transparency
• Global opportunities

Responsibilities

• Translate strategy into a capability roadmap and define needed skills
• Shape enterprise skills taxonomy and capability frameworks for consistency across units
• Use workforce data and market signals to forecast skills gaps and prioritise investments
• Define learning pathways and lead priority programs from concept to delivery
• Create multi-modal learning solutions (facilitated, digital, social, experiential, on-the-job, blended)
• Embed skills through manager enablement, communities of practice, and talent rhythms
• Oversee enterprise reskilling for AI and digital working from baseline to role-specific capability
• Partner with IT, learning partners and operating units to align learning with technology and processes
• Measure proficiency, behavior change and business outcomes to improve programs
• Lead and develop a specialist team in skills intelligence, learning architecture and digital capability
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders to align capability priorities

Key requirements

• Extensive experience in learning, capability building or organizational development in a complex multinational
• Proven track record translating strategy into enterprise capability frameworks and learning portfolios
• Experience leading enterprise reskilling across multiple modalities
• Strong command of workforce data and learning analytics
• Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed, multi-country environment
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (or equivalent professional experience)
• Business-level English and willingness to travel internationally
• Experience in industrial, manufacturing, engineering, logistics or supply-chain environments
• Familiarity with skills-based organization models, talent practices and learning technology (LXP, skills platforms, AI-enabled learning)
• Experience across EMEA, APAC and North America
• Postgraduate qualification or professional certification in related fields

• stakeholder influence
• curiosity
• leadership
• workforce data analytics
• learning analytics
• enterprise capability frameworks

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