Connect learning to strategy
Prioritize capability needs based on business goals, role impacts, and performance requirements.
Learning and development careers
Build the capability people need to perform through change.
Learning & Development Managers translate business change into practical capability building. They design learning strategies, coordinate development, and help leaders and employees apply new knowledge in the flow of work.
Meaningful work. Clear expectations. Professional support.
Professional impact
Where this work creates value.
Design for application
Create learning journeys that help people practice and use new skills in real work.
Coordinate delivery
Align subject-matter experts, designers, facilitators, platforms, and schedules.
Measure effectiveness
Use evidence and feedback to strengthen learning, adoption, and performance.
Scope of work
The work you may lead.
Every assignment is different. Depending on the opportunity, your work may include a combination of the following responsibilities.
Needs analysis
Identify audience, role, task, performance, and readiness needs.
Learning strategy
Define audiences, objectives, modalities, sequencing, governance, and measures.
Curriculum design
Create coherent learning journeys across formal learning and performance support.
Content development
Guide production of clear, relevant, accessible learning experiences and resources.
Facilitation
Enable engaging instructor-led, virtual, cohort, and leader-led learning.
Program management
Coordinate scope, schedule, dependencies, reviews, vendors, and deployment.
Platform operations
Support learning-management processes, enrollment, completion, and reporting.
Learning measurement
Evaluate participation, confidence, application, adoption, and performance impact.
Responsibilities, experience requirements, employment classification, and work arrangements vary by client and opportunity.
Professional capability
Capabilities that strengthen this work.
These capabilities represent a broad professional profile—not an expectation that every candidate must demonstrate every item for every role.
Learning strategy
- Needs assessment
- Audience segmentation
- Learning objectives
- Curriculum architecture
- Measurement planning
Design and delivery
- Adult learning
- Instructional design
- Facilitation
- Performance support
- Accessible learning
Program leadership
- Stakeholder alignment
- Vendor coordination
- Learning operations
- Change integration
- Data-informed improvement
Enterprise environments
Ready for complex, connected organizations.
Strong Tower opportunities may support large, global, highly collaborative organizations. Relevant experience with enterprise tools, cross-functional teams, senior stakeholders, and rapidly changing priorities can be valuable.
Learning management systemsArticulate 360Microsoft 365Virtual facilitation toolsSurvey platformsPower BIProject toolsContent and knowledge platforms
Specific tool and client-environment requirements are listed with each current opportunity.
Professional outcomes
What success can look like.
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Learning priorities align with business and role needs.
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Employees know what to learn and why it matters.
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Content is relevant, accessible, and ready on time.
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Facilitators and leaders are prepared.
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Completion and effectiveness are visible.
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New skills transfer into sustained performance.
Candidate fit
You may thrive in this work if…
Strong Tower values professionals who combine disciplined delivery with curiosity, thoughtful collaboration, sound judgment, and respect for the people affected by the work.
- You connect business strategy to practical learning needs.
- You design with empathy for busy adult learners.
- You can lead contributors without owning every resource directly.
- You balance creative learning design with operational discipline.
- You use feedback and evidence to improve continuously.
The Strong Tower experience
Opportunity with support behind it.
We connect talented professionals with meaningful opportunities while providing clear communication, practical guidance, and professional respect throughout the candidate and assignment experience.
Clarity
Understand the role, work arrangement, engagement type, hiring process, and available compensation information before making a decision.
Preparation
Receive practical information and role-specific guidance as you prepare for interviews.
Client interview
Meet with the client or hiring team when your experience aligns with an opportunity, with Strong Tower support throughout the process.
Onboarding
Complete documentation, screening, orientation, and assignment-specific preparation if selected.
Hiring journey
Your path to an opportunity.
Explore
Review current opportunities or submit your résumé to the talent community.
Connect
Discuss your experience, interests, availability, and preferred way of working with a Strong Tower recruiter.
Client interview
Prepare for and meet with the client or hiring team when there is a suitable match.
Onboard
If selected, complete the required steps and prepare to begin the engagement.
Applications are reviewed against each opportunity’s requirements. Strong Tower cannot guarantee personal contact, an interview, or placement.
Résumé guidance
Help your experience stand out.
Focus on scope, complexity, decisions, and outcomes. Never include confidential information belonging to a current or former employer or client.
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Describe the audiences, capabilities, and business changes you supported.
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Quantify learners, courses, regions, modalities, or timelines where accurate.
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Clarify your role in strategy, design, development, and delivery.
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Highlight platforms, vendors, and cross-functional partners.
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Show how you measured learning or performance outcomes.
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Include accessible and inclusive learning practices.
Frequently asked questions
What candidates often want to know.
What kinds of opportunities are available for learning & development managers?
Opportunities vary by client need and may include consulting, contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent roles. Review current postings for the specific scope, location, work arrangement, and engagement terms.
Are opportunities remote, hybrid, or onsite?
Work arrangements vary by client, location, and assignment. Each current posting describes the applicable onsite, hybrid, or remote expectations.
Do I need experience with every capability listed on this page?
No. This page describes a broad professional profile. Individual opportunities identify the experience and capabilities most important to that specific role.
Can I submit my résumé if there is no matching opening?
Yes. Join the Strong Tower talent community so our recruiters can consider your experience when a relevant opportunity becomes available.
What happens after I apply?
Applications are reviewed against each opportunity’s requirements. If there may be a match, a Strong Tower recruiter may contact you to discuss your experience, availability, and next steps.
Take the next step
Ready to put your experience to work?
Explore current opportunities or submit your résumé to be considered when a role matches your skills.
Candidate protection
Recruitment should always feel trustworthy.
Strong Tower never charges candidates a recruitment or placement fee. Official recruiters communicate using an @strongtower.consulting email address, and interviews take place through live, professional channels—not by text message.
If a message seems suspicious, do not share personal or financial information. Contact info@strongtower.consulting to verify it.