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Senior Learning & Development Manager


Company : StandardAero Business Aviation Services


Location : Cincinnati, OH


Created : 2025-12-03


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Location: On-site at our Cincinnati location with 10% travel required.Build an Aviation Career You're Proud OfAt StandardAero, we use our ingenuity and know-how to find solutions for the simple to the most complex challenges in aviation. Together, we get the job done and done well. Our stability, resources, and respectful culture supports you in building a solid career with a great team you can count on day in and day out for the long term.Join one of the largest aviation services businesses in the world StandardAero is a leading provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services across the Commercial Airlines & Fleets, Business Aviation and Military & Energy sectors. The Company is a global organization with ~7000 employees working out of facilities strategically located in 55 primary locations across 6 continents.As a SR Learning & Development Manager you will lead efforts to build learning and development programs. This is a creative, hands-on role with leadership responsibility.The SR Learning & Development Manager will direct all training development work and build a strategic roadmap focused on creating lasting, evolving programs that meet the business's needs and fuel a culture of learning. In addition, this seasoned leader will apply learning methodology and be accountable for developing a deep understanding of the business to create training programs that evolve, develop, and drive the broader talent management strategy for the organization. This creative, hands-on role will lead a small internal team.Responsibilities:Facilitates planning and resource deployment for commercial sales training programs and other training programs as identified in partnership with sector leadership.Sets direction and manages the instructional design processes.Builds and sustains lasting relationships with business leaders.Conducts Training Needs Analysis to identify and prioritize company-learning needs.Generates a deep understanding of business demands and facilitates partnerships that enable successful learning outcomes.Builds and leads the team to establish and execute learning strategy that supports business and talent management priorities - from learning needs assessments through new program development, including contributions to program evaluation, and program sustainment or enhancement.Identifies strong external vendors in the marketplace, establishes relationships with them, and deploys them as needed.Effectively balances decisions based on critical factors (e.g., current workloads, budgets, capabilities).Leverages best learning practices, standards, and processes to ensure that value is created through development and deployment of work products.Has a proven track record of designing, developing, and implementing high impact learning solutions, using a variety of innovative approaches.Ability to effectively facilitate learning solutions and train the trainer sessions as needed.Carries out special projects as assigned.Requirements:Must be authorized to work in the US.Bachelor's degree required.A minimum of 8 years of L&D experience in roles responsible for courses for talent development.Experience with facilitating and supporting learning programs for multiple functions within an organization.Experience and applied knowledge of instructional design and e-learning methodologies and tools.Experience leading large, complex projects using standard project management practices and tools.Excellent interpersonal, facilitation, communication, and consulting skills.Ability to assess needs, influence, deliver and collaborate with all levels, including senior leadership.Strategic, division-wide and systems thinking.Attention to detail and the ability to deliver a well-thought-out strategy and accurate product/presentation.Formal presentation and f