Senior Learning Design & Delivery Lead

Publicis Groupe UK; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global communications group in London seeks a Director, Learning Design & Excellent to oversee flagship leadership programs. This role involves shaping creative learning experiences for senior stakeholders, enhancing program quality, and integrating innovative technologies. The ideal candidate has significant leadership experience in learning design and a strong focus on participant experiences. Join us in a hybrid work environment that empowers growth and creativity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in learning design, facilitation, and program leadership at Director level or equivalent.
• Ability to shape the big picture while crafting detailed, elegant learning flows.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others to build capability in content creation and facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver three annual cohorts and quarterly activations for top global leaders.
• Define and model best practices across the Global L&D suite.
• Gather insights and feedback to refine and evolve programs year after year.

Skills

Learning design

Facilitation

Program leadership

Collaboration

Creativity

Tools

AI tools

Job description

BRAND: Publicis Groupe
Job Function: Human Resources
Location: London, United Kingdom
Experience Level: Management
Workplace Type: Hybrid

Company description

Overview

Publicis Groupe is one of the world's largest communications holding companies, present in over 110 countries and employing about 100,000 professionals. The Groupe is positioned at every step of the value chain, from consulting to execution, combining marketing transformation and digital business transformation.

Helping Our Clients Unlock Growth in the Platform World

Our clients compete in the platform world, a horizontal marketplace between creators and consumers, between speakers and listeners, between buyers and sellers. To thrive in the platform world, companies must continue to innovate their products and business models. Four imperatives (1. Real Identity, 2. Dynamic, Diverse and Disruptive Creativity 3., Smart Media and 4. Direct Relationships) via our suite of world‑class agencies, are necessary for modern brands to win in the platform world. At Publicis Groupe, we've invested in capabilities across these four imperatives our clients need to unlock growth. As the only one who can architect, build and orchestrate end to end solutions, not only do we have a proven record of building bespoke models for clients and leading expertise across all major industry categories, we are able to offer our talents more opportunities to grow and benefit from a richer learning experience. We call this Power of One. Powered by a 100,000‑strong network via Marcel, our AI‑based platform, we are also able to provide our clients and talents instant access to resource, knowledge for any need, any time, in any market.

The Spirit of Viva La Difference

Viva La Difference is deeply rooted in everything we do. It has always been in our DNA. From the birth of Publicis, 94 years ago, when Marcel Bleustein‑Blanchet, our founder, invented French advertising. Viva La Difference expresses how we value and respect each individual and recognize what makes us distinctive. This is the charge that inspires our teams to celebrate the differences in identity, background, culture, and experience of all of us. It is how we behave with each other and our clients, and it is deeply rooted throughout our work, to elevate and bring to life our differences throughout the platform world.

Our Commitment

As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion.

Overview

We are hiring a Director, Learning Design & Excellent - a senior learning designer and facilitator who will lead our flagship senior leadership experience, Encore, and set the standard for learning design across our global portfolio.

This is an opportunity to influence leadership development at scale, work with senior stakeholders worldwide, and bring creativity and innovation into every aspect of learning. You'll collaborate with a small, high‑performing team and have the freedom to shape experiences that truly move people.

Publicis Groupe's Global Learning & Development team creates experiences that grow our leaders and shape the future of our organization. From Le Train to Le Studio, Le Grand, Le LAB, and Encore, we design programs that combine creativity, technology, and impact.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver three annual cohorts and quarterly activations for Publicis' top global leaders, ensuring a world‑class participant experience.
• Define and model best practices across the full Global L&D suite (Le Train, Le Studio, Le Grand, Le LAB, Encore), driving consistency in design, facilitation, and storytelling.
• Partner with Program Leads to elevate content quality, narrative flow, and facilitation craft; mentor team members to build capability and confidence.
• Support the development of internal facilitators and external contributors; curate and brief speakers for high‑impact sessions.
• Gather insights and feedback to refine and evolve programs year after year.
• Explore new formats, tools, and approaches, integrating creativity, technology, and AI into learning experiences.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in learning design, facilitation, and program leadership at Director level or equivalent.
• Ability to shape the big picture while crafting detailed, elegant learning flows.
• Skilled at connecting dots across programs, people, and priorities in a global matrix.
• Comfortable building trust and driving collaboration across a complex, matrixed organization.
• Confidence and credibility when engaging senior audiences.
• Ability to design scalable systems that enable creativity and innovation.
• Familiarity with emerging tools and AI; enthusiasm for integrating technology into learning.
• Deep care for the participant experience - prioritizing how it feels, not just how it looks.
• Experience coaching or mentoring others to build capability in content creation and facilitation.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and able to move proactively in a fast‑paced, global context.

Additional information

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office‑based three days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not affect your treatment in our process.

Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).