Learning & Development Lead - Cisco

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Job Summary

The Learning & Development Lead is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive learning programs that align with the Cisco’s account's strategic objectives. The primary focus of this role is high-level skills consultation and proactive stakeholder management, ensuring that learning solutions directly address business challenges.

The role also supports the account's AI transformation by preparing employees to adapt to AI-driven workforce shifts and leveraging modern, AI-enabled tools to enhance learning delivery. This is an active, execution-focused position. The successful candidate must balance strategic stakeholder consulting with direct facilitation, demonstrating a hands-on commitment to executing programs from end to end.

Why JLL

At JLL, you'll help shape how work gets done, for our people, our clients, and the industry we lead. AI is changing careers faster than ever, and we're building a skills-first path through that change, not just reacting to it. Our Learning & Development team sits at the centre of that shift: we're the team JLL is counting on to help thousands of employees across our key client accounts adapt, grow, and thrive over the next few years.

If you've already made AI-enabled tools part of how you design and deliver learning, you'll fit right in here, we see AI as an amplifier for what you bring, not a replacement for it. This is a chance to do career-defining L&D work, build skills that stay relevant as the future of work keeps changing, and help JLL's people move forward with confidence through intentional and strategic upskilling and reskilling initiatives.

You'll bring agility and resilience, comfort moving with change rather than waiting for it to settle. You're AI- and digital-literate, and you've already put AI-enabled tools to work in how you design and deliver learning. You think critically and analytically, and you know how to turn that thinking into a case others can act on. You collaborate naturally, influence without needing formal authority, consult rather than dictate, and you know how to drive change through people, not just process.

Primary Stakeholders: Account directors and leaders across Cisco; PPs / PXPs; T&D Product Leads; REMS Senior Learning Partner; peers across the on-account and platform L&D team.

Direct Reports: 1 L&D Project Manager

Reports to: Global L&D Lead.

Ways of working: You will be part of a highly collaborative team and be working in a fungible pool with the wider REMS L&D team as priorities dictate.

Job Details

Skills Consultation & Needs Diagnostics: Serve as the primary L&D consultant for the Cisco account. Apply deep diagnostic skills to uncover root competency gaps behind training requests and scope tailored, high-impact learning solutions.

Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Establish trusted advisor relationships with senior account leadership, business partners, and department heads. Align diverse stakeholders around a unified, standardized learning model and communicate L&D's strategic value clearly.

Active Facilitation & Hands-On Delivery: Personally deliver, facilitate, and execute a range of development programs, including leadership development, skills training, and employee onboarding. Maintain a high level of visibility by actively leading both digital and in-person learning interventions.

Strategy & AI Integration: Develop and implement the account’s L&D strategy in alignment with wider business goals. Integrate foundational AI upskilling pathways to ensure employees successfully adapt to evolving, technology-driven roles.

Performance & Succession Planning: Partner with HR and department heads to support performance management, design development plans for high-potential employees, and support succession planning initiatives.

Evaluation & Budget Management: Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness using key performance indicators (KPIs). Manage the account L&D budget efficiently to ensure cost-effective resource allocation

Key Skills

Skills Consultation: Outstanding consulting and scoping abilities; capable of diagnosing performance gaps, identifying future capability requirements, and aligning learning solutions directly to commercial business goals.

Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Expert ability to build trust quickly with senior account directors and key client stakeholders; skilled at managing expectations, presenting data-driven business cases, and negotiating shared outcomes.

Facilitation & Execution: Strong pedigree in direct classroom and virtual facilitation; possesses a "roll-up-the-sleeves" mindset to drive programs from concept through to hands-on execution.

Agility & Comfort with Change: Thrives working at pace in an ambiguous, fast-evolving environment; easily adapts approach as AI capabilities and business priorities shift e

Data-Driven Storytelling: Leverages metrics and completion data to build a narrative around the business value and impact of L&D initiatives.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health.

About JLL –

We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 102,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities.

Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.

Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.