Senior Manager, Skills Strategy & Enablement

Role overview

This is a senior leadership opportunity based in the United States, offered on behalf of a partner employer that handles all applications and follow-up steps. The role is centered on building and putting into action an enterprise skills strategy that connects talent, learning, and workforce systems.

You will turn skills strategy into practical, scalable programs that shape how people are hired, developed, and moved across the business. A major part of the position is embedding skills data into core HR technology so leaders can make better workforce decisions.

The role works closely with HR, business stakeholders, and technology teams to scale skills-based practices across the organization. It is a high-impact position focused on governance, transformation, and building skills as a core capability for the enterprise.

You will also help align learning experiences with measurable skill growth and proficiency outcomes in a collaborative, innovation-focused environment.

Accountabilities

• Direct the rollout of the enterprise skills strategy, making sure skills frameworks, taxonomies, and proficiency models are applied consistently across the organization.
• Convert the enterprise skills vision into practical solutions that can be embedded into talent management, learning platforms, and workforce processes.
• Work with HR, talent centers of excellence, HR technology teams, and business leaders to weave skills into job architecture, career development, internal mobility, and workforce planning.
• Set up and sustain skills governance structures, with attention to data quality, standardization, and alignment between enterprise-wide and business-unit needs.
• Use skills data and insights to surface capability gaps and guide decisions on learning investment, recruitment, and internal movement.
• Oversee how skills are integrated into learning systems such as LMS and LXP platforms so learning journeys connect to measurable skill and proficiency outcomes.
• Ensure learning programs and content are created to build and validate skills, working with internal teams and external vendors.
• Lead learning technology and operations teams while overseeing platform health, program delivery, and operational performance.
• Manage budgets tied to learning and skills initiatives, optimizing spending across platforms, vendors, and delivery resources.
• Encourage adoption of skills-based practices through communities of practice, governance forums, and change management efforts.
• Create measurement approaches to assess the impact of skills enablement and support ongoing improvement.
• Coach and develop teams responsible for learning operations and skills enablement.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in learning, talent management, workforce strategy, organizational development, or a closely related HR area.
• Strong experience leading skills-based transformation work, including links to recruiting, career pathing, internal mobility, or broader talent management.
• At least 3 years of people leadership experience, including responsibility for managers or senior professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to convert enterprise strategy into workable, scalable execution plans.
• Hands-on experience with learning technology platforms, skills tools, and learning operations in large or complex organizations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across HR, business, and technology groups.
• Program and project management experience in enterprise or matrixed settings.
• Solid analytical thinking with the ability to use data in workforce and learning decisions.
• Knowledge of skills taxonomies, workforce planning, or talent marketplace models is strongly preferred.
• Excellent communication, change leadership, and organizational influence skills.
• Experience as an HR business partner, or exposure to talent and learning strategy, is an added advantage.

Benefits

• Annual compensation between $123,920 and $185,880, with placement usually near the middle of the range based on experience.
• A full benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer contributions.
• Paid time off, holidays, and additional well-being days depending on eligibility.
• Education assistance for employees and eligible dependents.
• A leadership role within a major enterprise transformation effort.
• Exposure to modern skills strategy, workforce planning, and talent technology ecosystems.
• A collaborative, mission-driven culture focused on innovation in talent and learning.

Application and data handling notes

This role is managed by a partner company, which also handles application review and next steps. Candidates selected for the shortlist are passed directly to the hiring employer for interviews and further evaluation.

By applying, you acknowledge that your personal information may be used to assess your candidacy and shared with the hiring employer as part of the recruitment process. The hiring process may also use AI-supported tools to help review applications, analyze resumes, and flag possible inconsistencies, but final hiring decisions are made by humans.