Manager Regional Training

Position Summary

As a core part of Jet Aviation’s talent strategy, the Jet Aviation Academy will strengthen the consistency, visibility, and quality of learning across the organization. Working with business functions and subject-matter experts, the Academy will ensure that training reflects business priorities, operational realities, and regulatory requirements.

Jet Aviation is seeking a Manager, Regional Training to lead Academy delivery across EMEA, the US, and APAC. You will help establish an important capability from the ground up by connecting existing training expertise and making learning easier to access, deliver, measure, and improve.

In this role, you will translate business and regulatory needs into a focused regional training program while connecting global standards with regional requirements. This position is ideal for an experienced learning and development professional who combines great leadership with practical execution and is comfortable working across functions, cultures, and locations.

Your Role

• Drive regional training delivery: Build and manage the annual training plan and calendar in partnership with business leaders, HR, Training Program Owners, and regional leadership. Identify opportunities for shared cohorts, reusable learning assets, common vendors, and more efficient delivery models.
• Drive learning and delivery excellence: Co-design learning solutions with subject-matter experts who own the curriculum and learning objectives. Apply adult-learning and instructional-design principles, and ensure consistent delivery quality across employees, internal trainers, dotted-line resources, and external vendors.
• Ensure compliance and audit readiness: Maintain sufficient qualified trainer capacity, monitor certification currency, and ensure that required training records and supporting evidence are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Lead the regional Academy community: Manage the local team. Build an engaged and connected community of trainers (direct, dotted line or external reporting) through shared standards, development opportunities, and regular collaboration.
• Manage budgets, vendors, and data: Consolidate regional training activity, budgets, attendance, qualifications, and costs into a reliable view. Coordinate the regional vendor panel in partnership with Supply Chain Management and maintain accurate information in the learning platform.
• Use technology and data to improve outcomes: ensure right use of the learning platform, contribute to improvements in learning technology and data standards, and use training data to evaluate effectiveness or opportunities for improvement
• Deliver leadership development: Facilitate regional leadership modules delivery and support high-impact leadership workshops as required.
• Build strong partnerships: Act as the face of the Academy in your region, encouraging adoption through trust, clarity, and influence rather than formal authority.

Minimum Requirements

• Solid learning and development experience across sites or countries; regulated-industry experience is a strong advantage
• A track record of delivering through people who do not report to them — matrix, dotted-line and vendor-based delivery, plus team leadership
• Learning technology fluency, comfort with training data, and budget experience including work with business leaders and SCM
• Strong knowledge of adult learning principles, instructional design, and training evaluation methods
• Facilitation experience
• Strong communication, presentation, facilitation, organizational, and project-management skills.
• Ability to communicate fluently in English and in regional language(s) as applicable

Who You Are

You are an experienced learning and development professional with regional or international experience, ideally gained in a regulated industry or a complex, multi-site organization. You combine great stakeholder engagement with strong operational follow-through and understand that effective training must work for both the people delivering it and the employees experiencing it.

You bring:

• Proven experience leading through matrix structures, dotted-line relationships, internal trainer networks, and external vendors.
• Strong expertise in adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, and training evaluation.
• Experience developing and managing multi-site or regional training plans and calendars.
• Fluency with learning technology, training data, budgets, and vendor management.
• Experience maintaining training records, qualification data, and evidence in support of compliance and audit readiness.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, project-management, and stakeholder-partnership skills, with an elevated emotional professionalism.
• The ability to influence without formal authority and build alignment across functions, cultures, and locations.
• Strong business judgment, with the ability to balance global standards, regional requirements, operational realities, and available resources.
• Fluency in English and applicable regional language(s).
• A willingness to travel within the region and occasionally globally.

You are influential, pragmatic, quality-focused, and commercially minded. You build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, use data to improve training effectiveness, and communicate openly about priorities, progress, and challenges. Above all, you demonstrate Jet Aviation’s values of trust, honesty, alignment, and transparency.

Desired Characteristics

• Influence without authority
• Senior stakeholder management
• Learning design and adult-learning expertise
• Quality and compliance mindset
• Business acumen and cost consciousness
• Data discipline
• Cross-regional collaboration
• Pragmatism in balancing common standards with regional reality.
• Has a pleasant, friendly, and helpful manner to deliver the best experience to customers and colleagues
• Quality driven with a passion for excellence to represent Jet Aviation as a Brand Ambassador
• Demonstration of and commitment to Jet Aviation values (Trust, Honesty, Alignment, Transparency)

Why Jet Aviation?

Shape the future of learning. Your work will support employee development, operational excellence, safety, compliance, customer service, and business performance while contributing to clearer development pathways across key programs.

Make a meaningful impact. You will help establish a capability that strengthens how employees learn, grow, and progress across Jet Aviation’s global organization.

Work in an international environment. With Swiss roots, the backing of General Dynamics, approximately 50 locations, and diverse business aviation operations—including MRO, completions, FBO, aircraft management, charter, staffing, and government programs—Jet Aviation offers a genuinely global setting in which to build your career.

If you are a collaborative learning leader who is motivated by meaningful change and employee development, we invite you to bring your expertise to Jet Aviation as our next Manager, Regional Training.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment

The employee must be able to work in both a heavy maintenance environment and in upscale customer areas. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate with occasional high volume when aircrafts arrive/depart. The employee is frequently exposed to vibration. Occasional fuel fumes may permeate the workplace. Employee must be willing and able to work in all types of weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. The Hangar environment may be extreme hot and cold during certain seasons of the year.