Senior Manager, Learning & Development

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With over $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

job purpose:  

The Senior Manager, Learning & Development partners with the Senior Director, Talent Management to shape and lead the organization's enterprise learning strategy. This is a hands-on individual contributor role: the Senior Manager owns the design, build, and delivery of programs that develop leaders and strengthen capability across every level of the business. In addition to strategy and program ownership, the Senior Manager personally facilitates senior leader curriculum and delivers other instructor-led training as business needs arise. 

Success in this role depends on influence rather than authority. The Senior Manager works across HR business partners, functional leaders, and executive stakeholders to translate business priorities into learning solutions, and to demonstrate the impact of those solutions with data. 

responsibilities: 

Learning Strategy & Partnership 

• Partner with the Senior Director, Talent Management to define, refresh, and execute the enterprise L&D strategy, including annual priorities, roadmap, and success measures. 
• Translate business and talent priorities into a coherent portfolio of learning programs, and recommend where to build, buy, or retire offerings. 
• Serve as a consultative partner to HR business partners and functional leaders, conducting needs assessments and recommending solutions grounded in performance outcomes rather than activity. 
• Manage the L&D budget in partnership with the Senior Director, including vendor selection, contracting, and spend against plan. 

Senior Leader Curriculum & Facilitation 

• Design and personally facilitate the senior leader curriculum, including executive and director-level development programs, cohort experiences, and offsite sessions. 
• Deliver additional instructor-led and virtual training across the organization as business needs arise, covering topics such as management fundamentals, coaching, feedback, change leadership, and team effectiveness. 
• Create a credible, high-trust learning environment for senior audiences, adjusting content and facilitation approach in real time to the level and needs of the room. 
• Develop and coach internal subject matter experts and leader-facilitators to extend delivery capacity across the enterprise. 

Program Design & Delivery 

• Own the full instructional design lifecycle — needs analysis, learning objectives, content development, facilitator guides, participant materials, and evaluation. 
• Build blended solutions that combine instructor-led sessions, digital and self-paced content, coaching, and on-the-job application. 
• Utilize the learning technology and LMS content lifecycle in partnership with Technical Training including curation, assignment logic, and reporting. 
• Oversee external vendors, consultants, and assessment partners, holding them to scope, quality, and timeline commitments. 

Measurement & Continuous Improvement 

• Define and report on L&D metrics - participation, learner experience, behavior change, and business impact, and present findings to senior leadership. 
• Use assessment, engagement, and performance data to identify capability gaps and prioritize investment. 
• Benchmark against external practice and continuously refine programs based on evidence and participant feedback.  

skills/qualifications required: 

Required: 

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. 
• Five or more years of progressive learning and development experience, including ownership of enterprise or multi-site programs. 
• Demonstrated experience facilitating for senior leader and executive audiences. 
• Strong instructional design skills and fluency with adult learning principles. 
• Track record of influencing and delivering through cross-functional partnership without formal authority. 
• Ability to move between strategy and execution — building the plan and then building the content. 
• Executive presence — credible and composed in front of senior audiences. 
• Strategic thinking paired with a builder's bias for action. 
• Influence and stakeholder management across a matrixed organization. 
• Facilitation and storytelling that hold a room and drive application. 
• Data literacy — comfort defining measures and reporting on impact. 
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting business priorities. 
   

Preferred: 

• Certification in one or more leadership assessment or development tools (for example, Hogan, DDI, Korn Ferry, MBTI, or 360-degree feedback instruments). 
• Experience with LMS and learning experience platform administration, and with authoring tools such as Articulate or Rise. 
• Coaching credential (ICF or equivalent) or formal executive coaching experience. 
• Experience supporting a distributed workforce across multiple locations. 

how fairlife nourishes you: 

At fairlife, we believe in better — and that includes how we support our people. We offer a comprehensive suite of benefits and wellbeing resources designed to support you physically, emotionally, socially, and financially, both in and out of work. 

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, effective day one! 
• Supplemental health plans (hospital indemnity, accident, and critical illness insurance) 
• Paid Time Off to recharge and support work-life balance 
• Paid parental leave & adoption assistance (up to $10,000) 
• Parental support & family care benefits, including childcare resources and lactation support 
• 401(k) to support retirement planning with up to 9% in employer match 
• Wellness reimbursement (up to $500 for qualified wellbeing expenses) 
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for emotional wellbeing and work-life support 
• Company-paid life insurance and short-term disability 
• Employer HSA funding (for HDHP participants) 
• Tuition reimbursement (up to $10,000) and student loan repayment ($200/month) 
• Learning & development programs to unlock your full potential 
• Rewards & recognition, matching gifts, free product, and Business Resource Groups 

fairlife’s nour!sh program is designed to meet you where you are — supporting your individual wellbeing journey while enabling you to do your best work every day. 

position location: Chicago, IL 

reports to: Senior Director, Talent Management 

travel requirements: up to 20% 

exempt/nonexempt: Exempt

fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity. Selection decisions are based on job-related factors.

In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company. If you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email careers@fairlife.com.

For Recruitment Agencies

At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing. Most of our roles are filled through applications submitted via our careers site or through direct outreach by our team.