From learning strategy to performance culture
We’re looking for a strategic, creative Global Corporate Learning & Development Manager to define and evolve our global corporate learning offer.
In this role, you’ll shape the concept, content, and intent of our learning portfolio - building critical capability in our people leaders and directly enabling a high-performance culture. Working closely with regional L&D teams, HR and talent partners, you’ll turn business and capability priorities into impactful, scalable learning solutions that land across regions and cultures.
This is a role for someone who can think big, connect the dots, and translate strategy into learning that genuinely changes behaviour and drives the IHG high-performance culture.
What You Will Do Day-to-day
- Shape and continuously evolve the global corporate learning offer to meet current and emerging capability needs.
- Define clear learning concepts, themes, and outcomes aligned to business strategy and talent priorities.
- Partner with regional L&D, HR and talent teams to identify priority learning needs.
- Enable co-creation and feedback to ensure solutions reflect real-world challenges.
- Ensure clarity on learning objectives, audiences, success measures, and learner experience.
- Craft a compelling, easy-to-navigate narrative for the corporate learning offer.
- Oversee the creation of high-quality materials and channels to promote and distribute learning globally.
- Track uptake and effectiveness, using insight and data to continuously improve impact.
- Stay close to L&D trends, technology, and best practice to keep the offer relevant and future-focused.
Key Skills & Experience You’ll Bring
- Significant experience in learning and development within a corporate, matrixed environment.
- Experience of building a centralised, large-scale learning strategies within a corporate environment.
- Proven experience working closely with HR and Talent functions, translating talent priorities into strategic learning solutions.
- Experience partnering with instructional designers and external vendors.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, operating confidently across cultures and geographies.
- Clear communication and storytelling ability, articulating the value of learning initiatives.
- Familiarity with learning technologies and platforms to enable scale and accessibility.
- Proven project management capability, delivering multiple initiatives at pace.
- Strong analytical skills, assessing effectiveness and learning ROI.
- Practical, outcomes-focused mindset with a strong 80/20 approach.
- Curious, externally minded, and committed to continuous learning.
Why apply?
At IHG, we’re transforming learning- away from lengthy workshops and toward bite-sized, high-impact experiences that matter to our business. This role is key to that journey. If you’re a forward-thinking learning or leadership development professional with a proven track record of doing things differently, we’d love to hear from you.
This position offers a hybrid setup: three days in our Windsor office and two days working from home
At IHG Hotels & Resorts, we work together to deliver True Hospitality for Good on a global scale. With corporate offices and over 6,000 hotel destinations worldwide, a career at IHG is the perfect way to broaden your horizons. You’ll experience our unique culture and brilliant colleagues who will support and inspire you. With a host of corporate opportunities to choose from, wherever you are on your career journey, and whatever you want to achieve there’s Room for You at IHG.
Over recent years, we’ve transformed our company. We have bold ambitions to drive performance and maintain our relentless focus on growth in order to be the hotel company of choice that guests & owners love.
We are a hospitality business at our core and value connections and being together helps us foster a unique sense of belonging that also supports productivity. That’s why here at IHG, we give our colleagues flexibility and balance – working in a hybrid way, blending office and remote working collectively. We recognise that every role is different, that’s why leaders work with teams to determine how and when they collaborate.
We provide a wide range of benefits designed to help you live your best work life. These include impressive room discounts across our many properties, recharge days and volunteering days throughout the year. Through our myWellbeing framework, we are committed to supporting wellbeing in your health, lifestyle, and workplace. We offer a unique and inclusive culture, where there is always Room for You to belong, grow and make a difference.
Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams where we celebrate difference and encourage colleagues to bring their whole selves to work. IHG Hotels & Resorts provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other category protected by applicable laws. We promote a culture of trust, support, and acceptance. Always welcoming different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
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