Senior Manager Training EMEA

Jet Aviation Inc.; Basel; Hybrid; CHF 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Jet Aviation is seeking a Senior Manager Training to lead Academy delivery across EMEA based in Basel at the Euro-Airport. You will help establish an important capability from the ground up by connecting existing training expertise and making learning easier to access, deliver, measure, and improve.

In this role, you translate business and regulatory needs into a focused regional training program while connecting global standards with regional requirements.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading through matrix structures and cross-functional teams.
• Strong expertise in adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and evaluation of training.
• Experience building and managing multi-site or regional training plans and calendars.
• Fluency with learning technology, training data, budgets, and vendor management.
• Experience maintaining training records and evidence for compliance and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Drive regional training delivery: build and manage annual plan with stakeholders.
• Co-design learning solutions with subject-matter experts and ensure consistent delivery quality.
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness through proper training records.
• Lead the regional Academy community and manage the local team.
• Manage budgets, vendors, and data; coordinate regional vendor panel.
• Use technology and data to improve outcomes and training effectiveness.
• Deliver leadership development modules and support leadership workshops.
• Build strong partnerships and influence across functions, cultures, and locations.

Skills

Leadership

Adult learning

Instructional design

Facilitation

Training evaluation

Budget management

Vendor management

Multi-site experience

Stakeholder engagement

English fluency

Job description

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Since 1967, Jet Aviation has been crafting flight in its smoothest form. From one hangar in Basel, Switzerland, to over 5,000 employees, and some 50 locations worldwide. Aircraft Management, Aircraft Sales, Charter, Completions, Government Services, FBO, Fixed and Rotary Wing Maintenance, and Staffing. Behind every seamless Jet Aviation experience, is a team of dedicated professionals perfecting the art of flight. The artisans of aviation. The craft that brings our customers’ journey to life. In the hangar, on the ground, and behind the scenes. Enabling global flight, with passion.

Position Summary

As a core part of Jet Aviation’s talent strategy, the Jet Aviation Academy will strengthen the consistency, visibility, and quality of learning across the organization. Working with business functions and subject-matter experts, the Academy will ensure that training reflects business priorities, operational realities, and regulatory requirements.

Jet Aviation is seeking a Senior Manager Training to lead Academy delivery across EMEA based in Basel at the Euro-Airport. You will help establish an important capability from the ground up by connecting existing training expertise and making learning easier to access, deliver, measure, and improve.

In this role, you will translate business and regulatory needs into a focused regional training program while connecting global standards with regional requirements. This position is ideal for an experienced learning and development professional who combines great leadership with practical execution and is comfortable working across functions, cultures, and locations.

Your Role

• Drive regional training delivery: Build and manage the annual training plan and calendar in partnership with business leaders, HR, Training Program Owners, and regional leadership. Identify opportunities for shared cohorts, reusable learning assets, common vendors, and more efficient delivery models.
• Drive learning and delivery excellence: Co-design learning solutions with subject-matter experts who own the curriculum and learning objectives. Apply adult-learning and instructional-design principles, and ensure consistent delivery quality across employees, internal trainers, dotted-line resources, and external vendors.
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness: Maintain sufficient qualified trainer capacity, monitor certification currency, and ensure that required training records and supporting evidence are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Lead the regional Academy community: Manage the local team. Build an engaged and connected community of trainers (direct, dotted line or external reporting) through shared standards, development opportunities, and regular collaboration.
• Manage budgets, vendors, and data: Consolidate regional training activity, budgets, attendance, qualifications, and costs into a reliable view. Coordinate the regional vendor panel in partnership with Supply Chain Management and maintain accurate information in the learning platform.
• Use technology and data to improve outcomes: Ensure right use of the learning platform, contribute to improvements in learning technology and data standards, and use training data to evaluate effectiveness or opportunities for improvement.
• Deliver leadership development: Facilitate regional leadership modules delivery and support high-impact leadership workshops as required.
• Build strong partnerships: Act as the face of the Academy in your region, encouraging adoption through trust, clarity, and influence rather than formal authority.

Who You Are

You are an experienced learning and development professional with regional or international experience, ideally gained in a regulated industry or a complex, multi-site organization. You combine great stakeholder engagement with strong operational follow-through and understand that effective training must work for both the people delivering it and the employees experiencing it.

You bring:

• Proven experience leading through matrix structures, dotted-line relationships, internal trainer networks, and external vendors
• Strong expertise in adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and training evaluation
• Experience developing and managing multi-site or regional training plans and calendars
• Fluency with learning technology, training data, budgets, and vendor management
• Experience maintaining training records, qualification data, and evidence in support of compliance and audit readiness
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, project-management, and stakeholder-partnership skills, with an elevated emotional professionalism
• The ability to influence without formal authority and build alignment across functions, cultures, and locations
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to balance global standards, regional requirements, operational realities, and available resources
• Fluency in English any other language is a plus
• A willingness to travel within the region and occasionally globally

You are influential, pragmatic, quality-focused, and commercially minded. You build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, use data to improve training effectiveness, and communicate openly about priorities, progress, and challenges. Above all, you demonstrate Jet Aviation’s values of trust, honesty, alignment, and transparency.

Why Jet Aviation

Shape the future of learning:Your work will support employee development, operational excellence, safety, compliance, customer service, and business performance while contributing to clearer development pathways across key programs.

Make a meaningful impact:You will help establish a capability that strengthens how employees learn, grow, and progress across Jet Aviation’s global organization.

Work in an international environment: With Swiss roots, the backing of General Dynamics, approximately 50 locations, and diverse business aviation operations - including MRO, completions, FBO, aircraft management, charter, staffing, and government programs - Jet Aviation offers a genuinely global setting in which to build your career.

If you are a collaborative learning leader who is motivated by meaningful change and employee development, we invite you to bring your expertise to Jet Aviation as our next Senior Manager Training EMEA.