Learning Partners Development Lead

ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants); Greater London; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Employee assistance programme

Nudge wellbeing tool

Discount site access

Wellbeing centre platform

Job summary

ACCA invites applications for a Learning Partners Development Lead on a full-time, permanent basis. The role sits in the Employability & Commercial team with flexible location.

You will develop partner capabilities, drive a global learning provider framework, and lead the management of major providers including Kaplan and BPP, aligning across regional education plans.

Qualifications

• Relevant work experience in the professional education industry, ideally with international exposure.
• A strong understanding of the education sector, preferably in accountancy, and a good understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Demonstrates commercial and business acumen with a track record of delivering commercial results and strong negotiation skills.
• Experience in formulating strategy and improving structures and processes to enable delivery of strategy.
• Knowledge and experience in managing stakeholder relationships.
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) with internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly motivated, proactive and able to work on own initiative.

Responsibilities

• Develop ACCA’s partner capabilities and track value creation across learning partners ecosystem.
• Lead development of a global learning provider framework and embed it across the organisation.
• Develop ACCA’s B2B approach with learning partners under commercial terms.
• Lead management of global learning providers, including Kaplan and BPP.
• Ensure learning provider framework is embedded across the organisation and in regional plans.
• Collaborate across teams to co-create solutions for strategic outcomes with learning partners.
• Drive partner capability as part of ACCA strategy through organisational channels.
• Establish and manage a forum for learning providers and a community of practice.

Job description

Closing date for applications is: 29 October 2026

ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.

We welcome applications from candidates who meet some but not all of the criteria listed below.

We’re currently looking for a Learning Partners Development Lead on a full time, permanent basis. This position sits within Employability & Commercial team. We are flexible on the location of this role.

The Job

Reporting to the Head of Commercial and Employability, on a daily basis, you’ll be involved in the following:

• Develop ACCA’s partner capabilities and lead the development and tracking of value creation across ACCA’s learning partners ecosystem
• Lead the development of a learning provider framework that can be applied globally and establish the processes to support effective learning provider management aligned to ACCA’s interests. Embed ACCA’s Learning Partners’ partnerships approach across the organisation
• Develop ACCA’s B2B approach with learning partners and manage ACCA’s learning partners under commercial terms
• Lead the management of ACCA’s global learning providers, including Kaplan and BPP
• Ensure that the learning provider framework is embedded across the organisation and implemented through the regional education plans
• Navigate partners, support markets and collaborate with teams across the organisation proactively co-creating new solutions to support strategic outcomes, focusing on learning partners and exploring the need for similar support and process across the broader partner network
• Drive partner capability as part of ACCA strategy, which will support the management of the strategic opportunities and the partnership approach via organisation wide channels such as the partnership community, strategic insights group, focus market forums, and digital transformation
• Establish and manage the forum for ACCA’s learning providers and ensure that a community of practice is established for learning partners to share best practices.

The Person

We’re looking for someone who:

• Relevant work experience in the professional education industry, ideally with international exposure
• A strong understanding of the education sector preferably in accountancy and a very good understanding of stakeholder needs; a good technical understanding of ACCA’s qualifications
• Demonstrates commercial and business acumen and ability to deliver tangible outcomes through working with others and demonstrate track record of achieving commercial success. Proven business development and strong influential and negotiation skills
• Experience of formulating strategy and developing and improving structures and processes to enable delivery of the strategy
• Knowledge and experience of managing stakeholder relationships
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written) with the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders
• Highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic, with the ability to work on own initiative.

Our Benefits

We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and so have designed our benefits to give you the flexibility and power to do so. Our core benefits include private healthcare, life assurance and income protection as well as a fantastic defined contribution pension scheme.

We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool called Nudge, to our employees.

Our flexible benefits platform gives you the power to customise your benefit plan to suit your needs, you can choose to add a number of benefits including extra holidays, PMI family cover, cycle to work, Travel and Gym loans and more! You can also enjoy exclusive access to our discount site and wellbeing centre platform.

We are committed to equal opportunities across our recruitment activities and have a real commitment to ensuring the inclusion and well-being of all employees. We have a blended approach to working to support our employees to balance the needs of their job with other aspects of their life.