Senior Manager Regional Training

Jet Aviation Inc.; West Palm Beach (FL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental & Vision insurance

401(k) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Job summary

Jet Aviation Academy seeks a Senior Manager Training to lead regional delivery across the US, aligning regional needs with global standards. This role focuses on building learning capabilities, coordinating with HR, training owners, and senior leadership to deliver impactful programs.

You will manage the regional Academy team, ensure audit-ready training records, and drive improvements using data and technology.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and training evaluation.
• Experience leading regional or multi-site training programs in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of regional training across the US in alignment with global standards.
• Co-design learning solutions with SMEs and ensure consistent delivery quality.
• Maintain trainer capacity, certifications, and audit-ready training records.
• Build and manage the regional Academy community and budget.
• Leverage learning tech and data to improve outcomes and provide leadership development.

Skills

Adult learning

Instructional design

Facilitation

Training evaluation

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership in matrix structures

Data-driven learning

Tools

Learning platform

Job description

Since 1967, Jet Aviation has been crafting flight in its smoothest form. From one hangar in Basel, Switzerland, to over 5,000 employees, and some 50 locations worldwide. Aircraft Management, Aircraft Sales, Charter, Completions, Government Services, FBO, Fixed and Rotary Wing Maintenance, and Staffing. Behind every seamless Jet Aviation experience, is a team of dedicated professionals perfecting the art of flight. The artisans of aviation. The craft that brings our customers’ journey to life. In the hangar, on the ground, and behind the scenes. Enabling global flight, with passion.

Position Summary

As a core part of Jet Aviation’s talent strategy, the Jet Aviation Academy will strengthen the consistency, visibility, and quality of learning across the organization. Working with business functions and subject-matter experts, the Academy will ensure that training reflects business priorities, operational realities, and regulatory requirements.

Jet Aviation is seeking a Senior Manager Training to lead Academy delivery across the US. You will help establish an important capability from the ground up by connecting existing training expertise and making learning easier to access, deliver, measure, and improve.

In this role, you will translate business and regulatory needs into a focused regional training program while connecting global standards with regional requirements. This position is ideal for an experienced learning and development professional who combines great leadership with practical execution and is comfortable working across functions, cultures, and locations.

This role is an office-based position, on a hybrid schedule, working at least four times weekly from the office. Our ideal candidate will work from our location in West Palm Beach, FL.

Your Role

• Drive regional training delivery: Build and manage the annual training plan and calendar in partnership with business leaders, HR, Training Program Owners, and regional leadership. Identify opportunities for shared cohorts, reusable learning assets, common vendors, and more efficient delivery models.
• Drive learning and delivery excellence: Co-design learning solutions with subject-matter experts who own the curriculum and learning objectives. Apply adult-learning and instructional-design principles, and ensure consistent delivery quality across employees, internal trainers, dotted-line resources, and external vendors.
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness: Maintain sufficient qualified trainer capacity, monitor certification currency, and ensure that required training records and supporting evidence are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Lead the regional Academy community: Manage the local team. Build an engaged and connected community of trainers (direct, dotted line or external reporting) through shared standards, development opportunities, and regular collaboration.
• Manage budgets, vendors, and data: Consolidate regional training activity, budgets, attendance, qualifications, and costs into a reliable view. Coordinate the regional vendor panel in partnership with Supply Chain Management and maintain accurate information in the learning platform.
• Use technology and data to improve outcomes: ensure right use of the learning platform, contribute to improvements in learning technology and data standards, and use training data to evaluate effectiveness or opportunities for improvement.
• Deliver leadership development: Facilitate regional leadership modules delivery and support high-impact leadership workshops as required.
• Build strong partnerships: Act as the face of the Academy in your region, encouraging adoption through trust, clarity, and influence rather than formal authority.

Who You Are

You are an experienced learning and development professional with regional or international experience, ideally gained in a regulated industry or a complex, multi-site organization. You combine great stakeholder engagement with strong operational follow-through and understand that effective training must work for both the people delivering it and the employees experiencing it.

• You bring:
• Proven experience leading through matrix structures, dotted-line relationships, internal trainer networks, and external vendors.
• Strong expertise in adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and training evaluation.
• Experience developing and managing multi-site or regional training plans and calendars.
• Fluency with learning technology, training data, budgets, and vendor management.
• Experience maintaining training records, qualification data, and evidence in support of compliance and audit readiness.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, project-management, and stakeholder-partnership skills, with an elevated emotional professionalism.
• The ability to influence without formal authority and build alignment across functions, cultures, and locations.
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to balance global standards, regional requirements, operational realities, and available resources.
• Fluency in English and applicable regional language(s).
• A willingness to travel within the region and occasionally globally.

You are influential, pragmatic, quality-focused, and commercially minded. You build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, use data to improve training effectiveness, and communicate openly about priorities, progress, and challenges. Above all, you demonstrate Jet Aviation’s values of trust, honesty, alignment, and transparency.

Why Jet Aviation

Shape the future of learning. Your work will support employee development, operational excellence, safety, compliance, customer service, and business performance while contributing to clearer development pathways across key programs.

Make a meaningful impact. You will help establish a capability that strengthens how employees learn, grow, and progress across Jet Aviation’s global organization.

Work in an international environment. With Swiss roots, the backing of General Dynamics, approximately 50 locations, and diverse business aviation operations—including MRO, completions, FBO, aircraft management, charter, staffing, and government programs—Jet Aviation offers a genuinely global setting in which to build your career.

If you are a collaborative learning leader who is motivated by meaningful change and employee development, we invite you to bring your expertise to Jet Aviation as our next Manager, Regional Training.

At Jet Aviation we believe in selecting the best candidates through a comprehensive and thoughtful process. If you’re selected to move forward, you can expect a multistage interview process, including connections with team members and leaders. As a part of our commitment to safety and security, our selected candidate must successfully pass pre-employment requirements before finalizing employment.

At Jet Aviation eligible employees can enjoy a comprehensive package that fuels your passions both inside and outside of work. Your health and well-being matter to us. That’s why we offer a competitive benefit package that includes health, dental & vision insurance, matching 401(k), health savings and flexible spending accounts, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, employee assistance programs, health and wellness awards, generous paid time off, tuition reimbursement, employee discounts and more.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans