Global Learning and Development Manager

Hotel: Corp Windsor, Windsor One, Arthur Road, IHG Hotels & Resorts, SL4 1RS

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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

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

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