Mars U China Learning Lead

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Partnership & Business Alignment

Direct dialogue with China Business Segment President/GM and Senior leadership team to deeply understand market challenges, growth drivers, and talent implications.

Proactively identify (“smell”) capability needs across the organization and influence business leaders to integrate L&D priorities into the broader people strategy.

Provoke business leaders’ assumptions of capability gaps, and lead strategic conversations to accurately diagnose and validate the real learning needs behind business challenges.

Inspire new possibilities of what/how L&D solutions can contribute to business growth, and obtain strong endorsement and sponsorship from senior leadership team.

Act as the reliable strategic L&D partner for business leaders, being the first person they turn to for capability development opportunity/challenge, and gaining credits with impactful learning solutions/advices

Partner with segment P&O leaders to identify capability gaps and prioritize learning interventions that deliver measurable business impact, to support segment people strategy.

2. Learning Strategy Development

Translate the China business strategy into a comprehensive L&D strategy that enables China business growth through capability development

Guided by Global Mars U learning strategy, synthesize insights from dialogues with senior leadership team, capability gap analyses to formulate a comprehensive China L&D strategy that fully aligned with China’s business priorities and talent development agenda.

Define clear strategic pillars, learning modalities (experiential, digital, blended, etc.), success KPIs, and governance models to drive capability building for today and tomorrow.

Present and obtain buy-in from segment P&O heads and global stakeholders, ensuring the strategy is both locally relevant and globally aligned, and that sufficient resources and executive sponsorship are committed.

Establish a strategy-to-execution roadmap that prioritizes high-impact initiatives, phases rollout plans, and builds organizational readiness for sustainable capability building.

Continuously refine the China L&D strategy based on evolving business context, emerging market trends, stakeholders’ feedback, and strategic inputs from Global Mars U

3. Learning Program Design & Development

Design, curate, and deliver high-impact learning solutions focused on leadership excellence, including 0-to-1 program design where needs coming from top leadership team (CXO level) and target learners are CXO-1 (one level below C-suite) across business segments

Lead the end-to-end process of key learning initiatives, including needs analysis, instructional design, piloting, and scalable rollout across China.

Demonstrate deep mastery and flexible application of leading L&D frameworks, methodologies and best practices to design a high-impact learning solutions that shift behavior, elevate performance and deliver measurable business outcomes. through cutting-edge learning experiences.

Embed measurement and evaluation mechanisms upfront to track learner progress, behavior change, and business impact, iterating rapidly based on data and feedback to ensure learning solutions genuinely drive impact.

Deploy global Mars U curricula with fit-for-China approach to ensure cultural relevance and technical compatibility

4. Learning Culture

Lead initiative that foster a culture of learning in China under the direction of Global Mars University

Champion the "Employer Value Proposition" (EVP) internally, ensuring learning is a key driver for talent attraction and retention.

Drive the adoption of digital learning platforms and self-directed learning behaviors to create a modern and accessible learning environment

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5. Team Leadership

Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team of L&D professionals in China.

Manage team daily operation, ensuring high-quality delivery and cost-effectiveness.

Build highly engaged HPC team

6. Member of Global Mars University Leadership Team

Act as the strategic representative China within the Global Mars Learning Leadership Team.

Proactively share market insights, regional talent trends, and best practices to influence the global learning roadmap.

Ensure global alignment while advocating for the agility required to win in the local market.

Qualifications & Experience

Experience: Minimum 15+ years of experience in Learning & Development, with at least 5 years in a leadership role. Experience within a Multi-National corporation (MNC) is mandatory.

L&D Expertise：A seasoned Learning & Development expert with deep mastery of leading L&D frameworks and methodologies, and proven hands-on experience in design, development, and delivery of high-impact leadership programs for senior leaders, with proven track record of business impact.

Strong expertise and experience in designing and facilitation of pivotal and fit-for-purpose workshops to senior leadership team based on various business needs.

Strategic Agility: Proven track record of translating business strategy into actionable learning strategies. Strong ability to “smell” needs, challenging leaders’ assumptions, and validate real learning needs behind business challenges-not just fulfilling training requests. Must be able to demonstrate how L&D initiatives have directly supported business growth.

Stakeholder Management: Extensive experience navigating complex, matrix organizations with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels without direct authority. Track record of conducting direct dialogues with senior leaders in providing L&D insights/recommendations

Global Mindset: Comfortable operating in a dual-reporting structure. Able to balance global consistency with local customization.

Project Management: Strong program management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Team Leadership: Proven experience leading, coaching and developing high-performing L&D team in a complex matrix organization

Communication: Exceptional influencing, presentation, and coaching skills. Must be fluent in both English and Mandarin (written and verbal) to bridge global and local teams effectively.

Key Competencies

Business Acumen: Understands P&L, marketing, and sales drivers.

Consulting and Business Partnering Skill.

Influencing without authority

Strategic Mindset

Innovation: Brings fresh ideas regarding digital learning and modern L&D trends.

Managing Complexity

Customer Centricity

Global Perspective

Purpose-driven and Value-focused

Functional / technical skills: L&D Instructional Design / Adult Learning/Social Learning/Team Coaching etc.