Global Sales Learning & Performance Director

Remitly; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Wellbeing platform

Time-off programs

Disability & Life Insurance

Family benefits

Commuter spending

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Director of Learning & Performance to lead a global sales and customer success learning curriculum that drives measurable growth. You will embed learning into daily workflows, design structured journeys, and partner with senior stakeholders to align priorities with business strategy.

You will lead a specialist team, champion Challenger methodology, and ensure governance, data insights, and scalable enablement tools deliver sustained performance improvements across our

Qualifications

• Experience leading commercial, sales, or revenue enablement learning in a complex, global organisation.
• Strong curriculum design capability that integrates product knowledge, sales methodology, and performance coaching.
• Experience designing and managing assessment and certification programmes.
• Ability to influence and partner effectively with senior stakeholders across a matrix organisation.
• Experience owning and optimising modern learning technology and enablement ecosystems.
• Data-driven approach with the ability to translate insight into action and measurable outcomes.
• Comfortable balancing strong governance with agility and continuous improvement.
• Passion for improving performance through learning that delivers sustained business impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Learning & Performance team to deliver a cohesive, high-impact commercial learning curriculum.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Success senior leaders to define strategy, priorities, and alignment with commercial objectives.
• Embed the Elsevier Approach to Challenger methodology to accelerate skill development and strengthen core sales competencies.
• Design structured learning journeys for new hires, experienced teams, and advanced sellers, including assessment and certification frameworks.
• Ensure learning drives sustained behaviour change by embedding desired behaviours into coaching and business-as-usual practices.
• Use data and insight to link learning initiatives to commercial outcomes and provide clear impact reporting to senior stakeholders.
• Own governance, prioritisation, and review cycles to ensure learning remains aligned with product, go-to-market, and market changes.
• Build strong cross-functional partnerships across Product, Marketing, Sales Operations, HR, and external providers.

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Director of Learning & Performance to lead a global sales and customer success learning curriculum that drives measurable growth. You will embed learning into daily workflows, design structured journeys, and partner with senior stakeholders to align priorities with business strategy.

You will lead a specialist team, champion Challenger methodology, and ensure governance, data insights, and scalable enablement tools deliver sustained performance improvements across our