Learning & Leadership Development - Market Learning Lead
Accenture — London
Posted 2026-11-04
Location: Across Europe
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Job description:
We are seeking an experienced Learning & Leadership Development Market Learning Lead at Associate Director level to serve as the strategic link between Learning leadership, Market leadership, HR leadership, and business stakeholders across Europe. The role is responsible for translating enterprise and School strategies into market-relevant capability outcomes that support business performance, workforce readiness, and talent development.
Acting as a trusted advisor to senior business and HR leaders, you will identify capability gaps, workforce challenges, future skill requirements, and growth opportunities, connecting these priorities with the full portfolio of Learning offerings. You will influence learning strategies, priorities, and investments across Schools, Departments, and Capability Development teams, ensuring that learning solutions are aligned with business objectives and contribute to workforce competitiveness, employee engagement, and talent growth.
What’s in it for you?
- The opportunity to act as a strategic partner to senior Market, business, and HR leaders, influencing learning priorities and shaping integrated capability development strategies aligned with business growth, transformation, and future skill needs.
- Exposure to the full Learning ecosystem, working with Schools, Departments, and Capability Development teams to connect business needs with relevant learning solutions, influence strategic decisions, and shape learning investments.
- A key role in strengthening Accenture's Employee Value Proposition by positioning learning as a driver of talent attraction, employee engagement, retention, career development, and long-term workforce competitiveness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary strategic representative of the Learning team within the Market, connecting business strategy with workforce capability development.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior executives, HR leaders, workforce planners, and business stakeholders to understand evolving business priorities and skill demands.
- Translate Market business priorities, workforce trends, talent challenges, and strategic objectives into relevant learning and capability development strategies.
- Identify current and future capability gaps, workforce risks, and critical skill requirements, anticipating needs before they become business challenges.
- Partner with the University's Schools and Departments to identify and connect relevant learning solutions, including content, experiences, credentials, academies, certifications, coaching, communities, and leadership development interventions.
- Influence learning priorities, resource allocation, and investment decisions across organisational boundaries, balancing competing business needs.
- Connect learning offerings across Schools, Departments, and Markets to create integrated capability-building strategies and reduce fragmentation.
- Ensure learning investments and solutions are aligned with strategic growth opportunities, business transformation initiatives, and workforce plans.
- Advise senior leaders on how learning, career development, and skills-building contribute to employee engagement, retention, talent attraction, and long-term workforce competitiveness.
- Monitor the effectiveness of learning strategies through their contribution to business priorities, critical capability development, workforce readiness, and employee growth.
Necessary Knowledge / Skills:
- Senior Leadership experience ideally within a corporate functions environment, with a strong executive presence, and experience partnering and influencing senior business leaders
- Experience leading Learning & Development practices or capability development across Europe would be beneficial
- Proven executive-level experience working in complex, cross-border and matrixed environments, ideally managing programmes or practices across multiple European countries.
- Strong executive presence and demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across EMEA.
- Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing skills, with the ability to align diverse senior stakeholders around shared priorities and objectives.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex stakeholder relationships across different functions, markets, and organisational levels.
- Experience leading and managing large, geographically dispersed teams.
- Strong understanding of business priorities and the ability to translate business needs into relevant learning and capability development strategies.
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About Accenture
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