Senior L&D Leader: Strategy, Design & Exec Coaching

fairlife; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage (day

Paid Time Off

Parental leave & adoption assistance

401(k) with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

fairlife, LLC, a Chicago-based nutrition company, seeks a Senior Manager, Learning & Development to shape and lead enterprise learning strategies. This hands-on role designs, builds, and delivers programs that develop leaders and strengthen capability across the business, partnering with HR and executive stakeholders to demonstrate impact with data.

The role requires strategic thinking, executive-level facilitation, and a track record of influencing without direct authority, with responsibility

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Five or more years of progressive learning and development experience, including ownership of enterprise or multi-site programs.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating for senior leader and executive audiences.
• Strong instructional design skills and fluency with adult learning principles.
• Track record of influencing and delivering through cross-functional partnership without formal authority.
• Ability to move between strategy and execution—building the plan and then building the content.
• Executive presence—credible and composed in front of senior audiences.
• Strategic thinking paired with a builder's bias for action.
• Influence and stakeholder management across a matrixed organization.
• Facilitation and storytelling that hold a room and drive application.
• Data literacy—comfort defining measures and reporting on impact.
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting business priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define, refresh, and execute the enterprise L&D strategy, including priorities, roadmap, and success measures.
• Translate priorities into a portfolio of learning programs; decide to build, buy, or retire offerings.
• Consult HRBP and leaders; conduct needs assessments; base solutions on performance outcomes.
• Manage the L&D budget, vendor selection, contracting, and spend vs. plan.
• Design and facilitate senior leader curriculum, including executive development programs.
• Deliver instructor-led and virtual training across the organization as needed.
• Create a high-trust learning environment; tailor content to room needs.
• Develop internal SMEs and leader-facilitators to extend delivery capacity across the enterprise.
• Own the full design lifecycle: needs analysis, objectives, content, guides, materials, evaluation.
• Build blended solutions combining ILT, digital/self-paced content, coaching, and on-the-job application.
• Leverage LMS/content lifecycle with Technical Training for curation, logic, reporting.
• Oversee external vendors and assessment partners, ensuring scope, quality, and timelines.
• Define and report on L&D metrics and business impact; present to senior leadership.
• Use data to identify capability gaps and prioritize investment.
• Benchmark against external practice and refine programs based on feedback.

Skills

Executive presence

Strategic thinking

Influence without authority

Facilitation

Data literacy

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional partnership

Change leadership

Coaching

Storytelling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Human Resources or related field

Tools

LMS administration

Articulate / Rise

Executive coaching certification

Distributed workforce experience

Job description

fairlife, LLC, a Chicago-based nutrition company, seeks a Senior Manager, Learning & Development to shape and lead enterprise learning strategies. This hands-on role designs, builds, and delivers programs that develop leaders and strengthen capability across the business, partnering with HR and executive stakeholders to demonstrate impact with data.

The role requires strategic thinking, executive-level facilitation, and a track record of influencing without direct authority, with responsibility