About the position

As Learning and Development Manager, your primary purpose is to ensure excellent, scalable, and business-aligned learning experience for all co-workers and managers by owning the structure, methodology, system support, and coordination of all learning activities—from onboarding to ongoing development. You will play a key role in ensuring that our learning processes are efficient, user-friendly, and deliver measurable impact across the Swedish organization – while contributing to the development of shared frameworks and best practices across the wider AW Group. This role requires a combination of strong administrative acumen, deep operational understanding, and a genuine passion for modern L&D methods, including AI-supported solutions.

Your team

You will be an essential part of the People & Performance team, working closely with dedicated colleagues across the function, including Leadership Development. In this role, you will be the key expert and owner of the learning administration and systems landscape for Sweden. Your daily work involves significant cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders in Sales, Operations, and Branch Management. You report to Anna, our Leadership Development Manager, who focuses on driving business results together with her team through people development.

What we offer

We offer extensive benefits, including hybrid work flexibility, 30 days of vacation plus shorter summer work hours, generous wellness allowance and time, and robust occupational pension benefits including Flexpension, all secured by a collective agreement.

Your responsibility

This role focuses on managing and continuously improving the entire learning infrastructure and experience at Academic Work Sweden. It requires a balance between strategic system ownership and hands-on coordination, always with a strong focus on quality and impact.

• Driving Content Excellence: Ensure all learning journeys for key operational roles are up to date, aligned with Best Practice, and future-ready. Drive innovation in learning methodology and learning experience, exploring new approaches, automation and AI-supported solutions.
  
• Strategic Collaboration & Supplier Management: Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders (Sales, Operations, and P&P) to align learning initiatives with business goals. Manage external training suppliers — including contracts, evaluations, and quality assurance — and coach our internal trainer network to deliver top-class learning experiences.
  
• Learning System Ownership: Act as the system owner for our core learning platforms, ensuring they are reliable, user-friendly, and continuously improved to sercure data and user experience quality.
  
• Coordination & Administration: Lead the end-to-end coordination, administration, and follow up of all internal and external learning activities – ensuring high quality, structure, and efficiency in every step.
  
• Enabling Growth: Act as a trusted expert and go-to partner for managers and co-workers on learning and development matters. Provide structure, guidance and insights that empower others to learn, grow, and perform.

We are looking for 

To succeed in this role, you need to thrive in a fast-paced, commercial environment and translate business needs into smart, scalable learning solutions that truly work in practice.

• Operational Business Acumen: You have at least two years of full-time experience from an operational, client-facing role within Academic Work. This experience is a mandatory requirement, as it provides you with a solid understanding of our commercial logic, performance culture, and the day-to-day challenges of our business. A deep understanding of our culture, way of working, and learning conditions is essential to design learning initiatives that are both practical and truly impactful.
  
• Stakeholder Navigation & Drive: You have a proven ability from a professional experience to independently drive initiatives from idea to implementation, even in a fast-paced environment where key stakeholders – such as Branch Managers and Team Managers – have competing priorities. You know how to create engagement, build alignment, and move things forward despite differing perspectives and everyday operational demands.
  
• Passion for Progress: You show a genuine passion for workplace learning and have taken self-initiated actions to develop yourself, your team, or colleagues. This includes a curiosity to explore new methods and tools, such as AI-supported solutions – to improve how we learn and grow.
  
• Previous experience in Learning & Development or training administration is considered a strong advantage. Insights from a leadership role and a documented ability to lead projects are also highly valued.
• Language skills: The role requires excellent proficiency in both Swedish and English, as both languages are used on a daily basis

Personality traits considered crucial for the position

Your collaboration skills are key to success in this role, as it requires close and seamless partnership with multiple internal stakeholders. Simultaneously, you are highly structured, ensuring clear follow-up and process stability across all learning initiatives. We are looking for a self-reliant and proactive individual, driven by a goal-oriented and responsible approach to their work. You are confident and assertive when guiding trainers and influencing leaders – yet always respectful, pragmatic, and solution-oriented when navigating complex relationships. Finally, you bring curiosity and a change-oriented mindset, constantly exploring new ways to enhance our learning approach in a dynamic and tech-driven environment.

To all of you who want to achieve just a little bit more. Welcome home. We are - United by ambition! 

Other information

Start: No later than January 12th
Place: Stockholm
Contract: Full-time, permanent position

Process: At Academic Work, we use Alva Labs tests in our recruitment processes to ensure we find the best candidates for our roles. As part of our process, you as a candidate will start by taking a logical test, which helps assess your analytical skills and logical thinking, and a personality test, which provides us with insights into your personal traits and potential for the position. These tests are a crucial part of our selection process and help us make well-informed and fair decisions.