Manager, Learning Excellence & Compliance

Job Description Manager Learning Excellence & Compliance Full time / Hybrid Cracow, Poland Why join Rolls-Royce? At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce, you’ll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions, supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength, and all perspectives, experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

Launched in March 2025, the Kraków R-R Global Capability Centre represents an exciting new chapter in the growth of Rolls-Royce Group Business Services. Designed to support global operations and employee services, the Centre is rapidly evolving into a key hub for enabling operational efficiency and strengthening global business processes. With a fast-growing team, it delivers exceptional services across finance, procurement, HR, Data Analytics and Service Management. This is a place where your expertise can drive real impact - enhancing operational excellence, shaping streamlined global processes and contributing directly to the long-term success of one of the world’s most respected engineering companies. Join us and be part of building something exceptional.

As the Manager of Learning Excellence & Global Compliance, you will be responsible for coordinating, governing, and continuously improving the effectiveness, efficiency, and experience of global learning at Rolls-Royce. This role leads a portfolio of continuous improvement (CI) initiatives across learning operations, systems, processes, and programs, while also owning the enterprise-wide corporate learning compliance framework & annual programme. The position acts as a strategic connector between Learning, Engineering, HSE, Legal, HR, Quality, and regional stakeholders to ensure learning excellence at scale.

What You Will Be Doing Learning Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Lead and govern a portfolio of continuous improvement projects across the Learning function, aligned with enterprise strategy and operational priorities.
• Establish and maintain Learning Excellence standards, frameworks, and best practices (e.g., design quality, delivery effectiveness, learner experience, operational efficiency).
• Apply CI methodologies (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, Design Thinking) to improve learning processes, cycle times, cost efficiency, and impact.
• Define and track learning performance metrics and KPIs, including effectiveness, utilization, quality, and business impact.
• Drive standardization where appropriate while enabling regional flexibility to meet local business and regulatory needs.
• Serve as a thought leader for innovation in learning operations, digital learning, and workforce capability development.

Global Corporate Learning Compliance Leadership

• Provide strategic programme leadership for the programme, leading on the global planning, execution and continuous improvement of the EML programme
• Provide governance framework and oversight, including ensuring global adherence to regulatory and internal policy requirements.
• Track, analyse and report completion data and learner feedback for continuous improvement. Monitor non-compliance and ensure consequences are consistently recommended, applied and that the principles remain fit for purpose.
• Maintain accurate and auditable records of completion to meet internal and external compliance reporting standards (ie. info required for annual report purposes)
• Present programme level updates and compliance / risk factors to ET sponsors and other key stakeholders (policy / course owners / People function / employee rep groups etc)
• Evaluate programme effectiveness and identify trends, risks and opportunities to improve engagement and compliance rates
• Ensure budget oversight, approvals and transparency of spend

Governance, Portfolio & Stakeholder Management

• Establish and manage Learning governance mechanisms, including prioritization, intake, and review of CI initiatives and compliance programs.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration across global, regional, and business-unit learning teams.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on learning risk, compliance exposure, and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure transparency through regular repo…