Director - Organization Learning

Role Overview

Director – Organization Learning at Qiddiya Investment Company. This role leads the development and delivery of Qiddiya's learning architecture, ensuring learning enables performance today and builds the capabilities required for future growth.

Role Purpose

Lead the design and delivery of Qiddiya's enterprise learning strategy, aligning learning with operational priorities, closing critical skill gaps, and embedding continuous development across the organization. Combine strategic focus, strong knowledge of the Saudi learning environment, and hands-on execution to build internal capability, shape impactful learning experiences, and position Qiddiya at the forefront of learning and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Learning Architecture & Pathways

• Design and implement Qiddiya's learning architecture, including frameworks, pathways, curricula, standards, and development journeys across priority capability areas.
• Translate strategic priorities into practical learning roadmaps and interventions that support current performance and future workforce readiness.
• Ensure learning pathways are relevant to Qiddiya's functions, assets, and subsidiaries, and linked to measurable improvements in capability, performance, and business outcomes.

Learning Governance, Policy & Standards

• Establish and continuously improve learning governance, policies, standards, operating procedures, and decision rights across Qiddiya.
• Ensure learning practices align with Saudi regulatory requirements, internal policies, enterprise risk expectations, and quality standards.
• Define reporting and effectiveness measures to track adoption, application, capability growth, stakeholder value, and return on learning investment.

Digital & In-Person Learning Ecosystem

• Lead the growth, adoption, and integration of Qiddiya's learning ecosystem, including SuccessFactors, Sana, and future digital learning solutions.
• Create blended learning experiences that combine digital, in-person, social, experiential, and performance-based learning.
• Partner with internal stakeholders, providers, academic institutions, and professional bodies to improve access, personalization, learner experience, and insight through technology and data.

Leadership of the Learning Organization

• Design and lead the future learning organization, including learning business partnership, digital learning, operations, design, and enabling capabilities.
• Build a resilient, service-oriented, commercially aware learning team that partners effectively with the business and delivers with pace and quality.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 15 years of experience in Learning & Development, with at least 8 years in a leadership or managerial role.
• Proven success designing and delivering enterprise learning in complex, fast-paced environments, ideally with regional or global scope including the Middle East.
• Strong understanding of the Saudi learning environment, including relevant regulatory, governance, workforce development, and compliance expectations.
• Strong experience managing internal stakeholders, external providers, budgets, business cases, and learning investment decisions.
• Digitally fluent, with strong understanding of learning technologies; experience working with SuccessFactors and Sana preferred.
• Experience building internal capability and managing external partnerships.
• Demonstrated use of learning analytics and data to improve outcomes and show impact.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Education, Psychology, Business Administration, or related field.
• Master's degree (for example Organization Psychology, Organization Behavior) or relevant advanced HR certifications (for example CIPD, ATD, SHRM) preferred.

Skills & Competencies

• Deep understanding of learning science, adult development principles, and performance-based learning approaches.
• Strategic thinker with commercial acumen and clear link between learning and business goals.
• Proven ability to communicate, engage, and influence all levels of the organization including senior leaders; drive buy-in and foster a culture of ownership.
• Thrives in fast-moving, rapidly evolving environments; continuously improves processes.
• Ability to work independently, lead multiple projects, and drive initiatives to deadline in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled at balancing strategy and delivery, with a hands-on approach when needed.
• Brings external perspective and forward-looking, market-aware mindset.
• Embodies Qiddiya's culture of Play and high performance.

Additional Information

• Reports to the Executive Director – Talent Management.
• Partner closely with business and HR leaders to align learning with operational priorities.
• Opportunity to help build a unique city from the ground up and shape the future of learning in Saudi Arabia by bringing together Saudi context, global learning practices, digital innovation, and enterprise capability building.