Cisco

Manager, Learning & Development Programs & Consulting

Cisco$147K — $190K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in relevant fields or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years in Learning & Development, Talent Development, or HR
  • 3+ years leading programs or teams in complex organizations
  • Experience managing enterprise learning and development initiatives
  • Proven consulting experience with business leaders to diagnose needs

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own learning strategies aligned with business goals
  • Serve as a consultative partner for business and HR leaders
  • Guide leaders on learning strategies and capability-building approaches
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of learning programs
  • Lead and develop a team of learning professionals
  • Ensure programs are engaging and grounded in adult-learning principles
  • Create adoption strategies to drive engagement and behavior change

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Inclusive and supportive team culture
  • Access to advanced learning technologies and resources
  • Collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Impact on organizational capability and employee success
Full Job Description
The application window is expected to close on: 06/30/2026
Job posting may be removed earlier if the position is filled or if a sufficient number of applications are received.

The Manager, Learning & Development Strategy & Programs will build organizational capability by creating and driving learning programs while serving as a consultative advisor to business and HR leaders. This role requires a strong combination of learning expertise, critical thinking skills, partner influence, program execution, people leadership, and data-driven decision-making.

Your Impact

As a Manager, Learning & Development Programs & Consulting, you will lead the creation, execution, and continuous improvement of learning and development programs while also serving as a trusted internal consultant to business leaders and HR partners.

You will partner with interested parties to diagnose capability gaps, assess organizational learning needs, recommend development strategies, and design scalable solutions that improve employee, manager, and leadership effectiveness.

This role combines strategic consulting, program management, learning design, collaborator influence, and people leadership. You will translate business priorities into practical learning strategies and drive programs that enable performance, growth, transformation, and long-term capability building.

Key Responsibilities

Learning Strategy & Program Creation

Develop and own learning strategies aligned to business priorities, workforce capability needs, talent priorities, and leadership expectations. Design scalable learning programs, curricula, development journeys, and enablement solutions for targeted employee populations.

Internal Consulting & Needs Diagnosis

Serve as a consultative partner to business leaders, HR business partners, and functional collaborators. Conduct discovery sessions, analyze business challenges, identify root causes, assess skill and capability gaps, and recommend learning or development solutions that address business needs.

Advisory Partnership

Provide guidance to leaders on learning strategy, manager enablement, leadership development, team effectiveness, employee growth, and capability-building approaches. Influence interested parties by bringing insights, data, external standard methodologies, and practical recommendations.

Program Leadership & Execution

Drive end-to-end learning program delivery, from discovery and needs assessment through design, launch, adoption, measurement, and continuous improvement. Manage program plans, landmarks, communications, risks, vendors, budgets, and partner expectations.

People Management

Lead, coach, and develop a team of learning professionals, program managers, instructional designers, facilitators, or consultants. Set clear expectations, provide feedback, remove barriers, and build a team culture focused on quality, accountability, inclusion, and impact.

Learning Design & Experience

Ensure programs are practical, engaging, inclusive, accessible, and grounded in adult-learning principles. Support blended learning experiences, including live sessions, digital content, cohort-based programs, manager toolkits, peer learning, coaching, and on-the-job application.

Organizational Effectiveness Support

Partner with HR and business leaders to support broader organizational effectiveness initiatives, including culture activation, leadership capability, team development, change readiness, employee engagement, and performance enablement.

Change Management & Adoption

Create adoption strategies that drive awareness, participation, engagement, completion, and sustained behavior change. Partner with communications teams, people leaders, and HR partners to position learning programs effectively and increase business adoption.

Measurement & Continuous Improvement

Define success metrics, gather feedback, analyze learning data, and report outcomes to interested parties. Evaluate participation, learner satisfaction, behavior change, capability growth, customer value, and business impact. Use insights to improve programs over time.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Learning & Development, Business, Education, Psychology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in Learning & Development, Talent Development, Organizational Development, HR, business enablement, or internal consulting.
  • 3+ years of experience leading programs, projects, teams, or consulting engagements in a matrixed organization.
  • Experience designing, launching, and managing enterprise or business-unit learning and development programs.
  • Experience consulting with business leaders or HR partners to identify needs, diagnose capability gaps, and recommend development solutions.
  • Program Management skills, including planning, execution, collaborator management, risk management, reporting, and continuous improvement.


Preferred Qualifications

  • People management experience leading L&D professionals, program managers, instructional designers, facilitators, consultants, or vendor partners.
  • Experience in internal consulting, organizational effectiveness, change management, talent consulting, or leadership advisory work.
  • Experience building leadership development, manager enablement, onboarding, career development, team effectiveness, culture-change, or capability-building programs.
  • Knowledge of instructional design, adult learning theory, organizational development practices, change management, and blended learning models.
  • Experience working in a global technology company or large, complex enterprise environment.
  • Strong executive communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to present insights, recommendations, and outcomes clearly.
  • Experience conducting needs assessments, stakeholder interviews, focus groups, capability assessments, or learning diagnostics.
  • Vendor management experience, including selection, contracting, quality management, and performance tracking.
  • Certification or advanced education in coaching, organizational development, instructional design, agile, change management, consulting, or project/program management.


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