Director, Global Learning Strategy Enablement

The Director, Global Learning Strategy Enablement is responsible for shaping and operationalizing the enterprise-wide learning strategy—ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, future workforce needs, and a coherent global learning ecosystem. This role translates long‑term strategic direction into scalable, business‑integrated solutions that strengthen capability, elevate performance, and maintain global consistency. This leader embeds a unified framework for strategy execution, operational excellence, and capability uplift across global learning teams. They provide the governance, insights, standards, and enabling tools required to drive consistency, strengthen decision-making, and ensure learning investments deliver measurable enterprise value. While fostering thoughtful innovation where needed, the primary focus of this role is on strategic alignment, operational integration, and enabling a high‑performing, future‑ready learning organization.
 

Your day to day

1. Strategy Development & Governance

• Lead the development and continuous evolution of the global learning strategy, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, workforce capability needs, and long‑term business direction.
• Translate enterprise learning strategy into clear, mid‑term strategic roadmaps that articulate priorities, sequencing, and decision pathways for global learning teams.
• Drive strategic planning cycles by integrating market intelligence, business insights, performance data, and learning ecosystem analytics to inform decision‑making and future investments.
• Establish and govern strategy execution frameworks, including decision‑rights models, operating mechanisms, and standards that ensure cross‑regional alignment and strategic discipline.
• Maintain an ecosystem-wide perspective, anticipating interdependencies, mitigating fragmentation, and safeguarding a consistent, high‑quality learning experience across markets.
• Translate enterprise priorities into actionable strategic guidance for regions, ensuring local relevance while upholding global standards and strategic intent.

• Build and optimize the systems, tools, standards, and frameworks that support end-to-end learning lifecycle execution.
• Partner closely with Shared Services, PMO, Technology, and Performance Consulting to embed consistent ways of working, aligned to IHG University operating models (e.g., Smartsheet workflows and project lifecycle processes referenced across internal documentation). Create scalable best practices, playbooks, and enablement toolkits for global learning stakeholders.

3. Enterprise Integration

• Ensuring that investments align with business needs and deliver measurable value.
• Ensure integration across strategy, design & development, delivery readiness, and effectiveness.
• Partner with regional and functional learning leaders to ensure solutions meet global and local requirements.

4. Partnerships & Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with senior business leaders, HR, functional teams, and external partners to align learning strategy with enterprise ambitions.
• Represent Global Learning Strategy & Enablement in executive forums, transformation initiatives, and cross-functional planning sessions.
• Influence stakeholder understanding of learning priorities, opportunities, and outcomes.
• Lead forums, working groups, and decision‑making processes that connect strategy with on‑the‑ground learning needs.

5. Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Establish clear guardrails, success criteria, and governance to ensure innovation efforts are safe, measurable, and aligned with enterprise learning standards.
• Champion innovation in learning, including emerging technologies, capability models, measurement frameworks, and enablement practices.
• Drive continuous improvement through insights, analytics, and feedback loops, similar to the expectations outlined in strategic leadership charters.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, scalability, and quality across the learning ecosystem.
• Ensure new innovations integrate seamlessly into existing learning technologies, platforms, content ecosystems, and operational processes.

What we need from you

• Master’s degree in Business, Education, Learning Sciences, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years in learning strategy, organizational development, or learning technology leadership
• Proven leadership in global, matrixed environments; hospitality or multi‑unit operations
• Demonstrated success evaluating, piloting, and scaling learning innovations with measurable impact
• Strong analytical, executive communication, and cross‑functional influence skills