L&D Advisor - Customised Executive Education

Antwerp Management School; Antwerpen; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work environment

Autonomy to shape own role

International vibe

Job summary

Antwerp Management School (AMS) seeks an L&D Advisor for our Customised Executive Education team. You will partner with senior stakeholders to diagnose strategic, organisational, leadership and performance challenges, translate analysis into customised executive education, and lead commercial negotiations.

You’ll manage the sales cycle, engage faculty, and ensure impact across AMS client engagements. You will add value by developing proposals, building sustainable client relationships, and

Qualifications

• Think strategically, connect client challenges to priorities.
• Active listening to uncover real needs.
• Build trust and develop long-term relationships.

Responsibilities

• Lead client discovery and organisational diagnosis.
• Develop proposals and manage commercial negotiations.
• Drive end-to-end sales for customised engagements.
• Engage faculty and translate insights into learning architectures.
• Deliver customised executive education with impact across AMS clients.
• Contribute to portfolio development through client insights and cross-selling.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Active listening

Relationship building

Entrepreneurial mindset

English fluent

Dutch or French proficiency

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

At Antwerp Management School (AMS), a triple-accredited, internationally renowned business school with its roots and main branch in the bustling heart of Antwerp, both young and experienced professionals are supported and guided in their quest for healthy growth and sustainable professionalization in order to create impact as an individual, business team, company, or organization.

We are a dynamic, innovative and customer-oriented organization. Our academic faculty, subject matter experts and employees make every effort to offer our customers lifelong learning experiences by applying their leading expertise and current insights to real-world challenges.

Antwerp Management School aims to maximize diversity and would like to encourage everyone – regardless of gender, religion, ideology, origins, language, functional impairments, etc. – to apply.

Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an L&D advisor for our B2B customers.

Function

As an L&D Advisor within our Customised Executive Education team, you partner with senior stakeholders at client organisations to diagnose strategic, organisational, leadership and performance challenges. You translate your analysis into compelling and impactful customised executive education and advisory solutions.

You combine consultative business development with strong commercial acumen. You lead client discovery, organisational diagnosis and stakeholder engagement, develop compelling proposals and successfully conclude commercial negotiations. You manage the sales cycle for customised engagements, closely follow the sales pipeline and convert opportunities into effective collaborations and sustainable client relationships.

You act as a strategic and trusted advisor to your customers. Through inquiry, active listening and curiosity, you understand their challenges and translate them into coherent learning architecture and solution designs. You engage faculty and subject matter experts to ensure alignment between client objectives, solution design and delivery approach, creating an optimal end-to-end customer experience and demonstrable impact.

Company Profile

At Antwerp Management School (AMS), a triple-accredited, internationally renowned business school with its roots and main branch in the bustling heart of Antwerp, both young and experienced professionals are supported and guided in their quest for healthy growth and sustainable professionalization in order to create impact as an individual, business team, company, or organization.

We are a dynamic, innovative and customer-oriented organization. Our academic faculty, subject matter experts and employees make every effort to offer our customers lifelong learning experiences by applying their leading expertise and current insights to real-world challenges.

Antwerp Management School aims to maximize diversity and would like to encourage everyone – regardless of gender, religion, ideology, origins, language, functional impairments, etc. – to apply.

Would you like to join our team? We are looking for an L&D advisor for our B2B customers.

Function

As an L&D Advisor within our Customised Executive Education team, you partner with senior stakeholders at client organisations to diagnose strategic, organisational, leadership and performance challenges. You translate your analysis into compelling and impactful customised executive education and advisory solutions.

You combine consultative business development with strong commercial acumen. You lead client discovery, organisational diagnosis and stakeholder engagement, develop compelling proposals and successfully conclude commercial negotiations. You manage the sales cycle for customised engagements, closely follow the sales pipeline and convert opportunities into effective collaborations and sustainable client relationships.

You act as a strategic and trusted advisor to your customers. Through inquiry, active listening and curiosity, you understand their challenges and translate them into coherent learning architecture and solution designs. You engage faculty and subject matter experts to ensure alignment between client objectives, solution design and delivery approach, creating an optimal end-to-end customer experience and demonstrable impact.

You also contribute to the development of AMS's customised executive education portfolio by capturing insights from client engagements and translating these into opportunities for future offerings, cross-selling, upselling, renewal and broader client relationships across AMS.

Profile

• You think strategically, connecting individual client challenges to broader organisational and strategic priorities.
• You are an active listener, asking insightful questions and uncovering the real needs behind the initial request.
• You demonstrate genuine interest in clients, their business and emerging organisational challenges.
• Your problem solving capacities help you approach complex challenges pragmatically and develop effective solutions.
• You know how to create alignment, challenge constructively and gain commitment from diverse stakeholders.
• You have an entrepreneurial & commercial mindset. You spot opportunities, take initiative and combine customer value with business impact.
• You are relationship orientated. You build trust and develop long‑term professional relationships.
• You work effectively across teams and disciplines to deliver integrated client solutions.
• You communicate clearly and confidently with stakeholders at different levels.
• You are a true networker. You actively develop and leverage a relevant professional network.
• You have a Master’s degree and about 10 years of relevant experience
• You are fluent in English; proficiency in Dutch or French is required.

Offer

You will be part of one of the world’s leading international management schools. Our organisational culture is warm and open‑minded with ambitious and driven colleagues. Our aim is to further internal relationships and to make work fun.

Our customers and many of our staff members come from every corner of the globe, giving AMS a strong international vibe.

Ours is a highly flexible work environment where you can expect a great deal of autonomy and room for deploying and developing your own entrepreneurship. This will allow you to create the work–life balance that works for you.

You will work in a hip and sustainable environment in the very heart of Antwerp. Check out our campus in this video: Boogkeers

Besides an appeasing salary with benefits, AMS offers the opportunity to further develop your skills and to grow as a professional.

Our motto truly captures what we represent: ‘Opening minds, to impact the world’

In sum, a job that has an impact!