Senior Specialist, Learning & Development

Global Sports Jobs Limited; Hilversum; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Nike is seeking a Senior Specialist within the EMEA Learning & Development (L&D) team to strengthen leadership capability and culture across the enterprise. The role collaborates with Global L&D, HR, and external partners to design, execute, and facilitate scalable learning experiences that energise careers.

They will lead enterprise leadership programmes, manage end-to-end logistics, and deliver data-driven insights to continuously improve learning outcomes across regions.

Qualifications

• Solid experience across learning operations, facilitation, leadership development, instructional design, or related L&D roles.
• Experience facilitating corporate learning experiences for senior audiences.
• Ability to lead and manage complex learning initiatives with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and operational excellence.
• Comfort using Workday Learning, Zoom Webinars, and enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Serve as EMEA programme owner for core learning and leadership development programmes.
• Partner with HR, business leaders, and vendors to identify learning needs and deliver integrated solutions.
• Lead programme planning, governance, budgets, and delivery milestones.
• Use data to influence portfolio decisions and improve learning solutions.
• Facilitate leadership programmes and complex sessions across regions for senior audiences.
• Coordinate end-to-end logistics, vendor management, and reporting in Workday Learning.
• Produce reports on attendance, forecasting, and feedback to inform decisions.
• Elevate participant experience and optimise budget impact.

Skills

Learning operations

Facilitation

Leadership development

Instructional design

Workday Learning

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Zoom Webinars

Enterprise communication platforms

Tools

Zoom Webinars

Workday Learning

Job description

About the Role

This role sits within Nike's EMEA Learning & Development (L&D) team, which strengthens teammate and leadership capability across the enterprise. Reporting to the EMEA Senior Manager, Learning & Development, the Senior Specialist partners closely with Global L&D, EMEA HR, People Solutions, business leaders, Workday Learning partners, event planning teams, and external vendors. The role serves as a connector across strategy, design, facilitation, and execution, ensuring learning experiences are cohesive, scalable, and grounded in Nike's culture. It leads on the design, execution, and facilitation of enterprise learning programmes that energise careers, strengthen leadership capability, and amplify Nike's culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the EMEA programme owner for core learning and leadership development programmes, shaping, adapting, and evolving learning solutions within an established enterprise portfolio to meet regional audience and business needs.
• Partner cross-functionally across HR, People Solutions, centres of excellence, and business leadership to identify learning needs and deliver integrated solutions.
• Lead programme planning, stakeholder engagement, governance, issue resolution, budgets, and delivery milestones across assigned initiatives.
• Use business context, learner insight, and delivery data to influence programme and portfolio decisions.
• Facilitate enterprise leadership programmes, senior-level development experiences, and complex learning sessions across regions, creating engaging, inclusive environments that encourage reflection, connection, and action.
• Adapt facilitation style in real time to meet the needs of diverse senior audiences and leadership contexts, collaborate with peer facilitators and programme designers to maintain consistency and excellence across delivery, and coach less experienced facilitators when appropriate.
• Execute end-to-end learning programme logistics, including scheduling, communications, vendor coordination, and budget tracking, and drive operational readiness by partnering closely with design and facilitation teams.
• Act as a primary point of contact for day-to-day programme operations and delivery, maintaining learning calendars, operational milestones, and key programme data, and managing courses, assignments, and reporting in Workday Learning.
• Produce, validate, and distribute reports such as attendance, forecasting, and feedback insights to inform decisions, and use participant feedback, learning metrics, and data to continuously improve learning solutions, identify opportunities to innovate learning methods
• And elevate the participant experience.
• Optimise spend and evaluate upstream and downstream impacts of programme and budget decisions, and build and sustain strong internal and external networks within the learning and development community.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• Solid experience across learning operations, facilitation, leadership development, instructional design, or related L&D roles.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating corporate learning experiences, including director-level and senior-leader audiences.
• Proven ability to lead and manage complex learning initiatives with multiple stakeholders, timelines, and dependencies.
• Strong attention to detail, follow-through, and operational excellence.
• Confidence using learning systems and tools such as Workday Learning, Zoom Webinars, and enterprise communication platforms.
• Strong communication skills, executive presence, and ability to influence across functions and cultures.
• Global mindset with an understanding of how learning lands across regions and environments.
• Thrives in both strategy and delivery, and is equally comfortable owning complex programmes end-to-end and facilitating meaningful learning moments with senior audiences.

Preferred Skills

• Experience across first-line and corporate audiences is preferable.
• Strong ownership, executive presence, and a learner-first mindset.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity, managing multiple priorities, and building trusted partnerships across geographies.
• Ability to read a room, create brave spaces for reflection, and pivot in real time while ensuring operational precision behind the scenes.
• Application of adult learning principles, modelling inclusivity, and use of data and insight to continuously improve learning impact.