Senior Specialist, Learning & Development

This role is a Hybrid Role: Employees are expected to work from our New York office 3 days per week and may work remotely the remaining days.

Position Summary

The Senior Specialist, Learning & Development is responsible for designing, developing, implementing, and sustaining learning solutions that build capability across Revlon’s corporate and enterprise functions. The role partners with Learning & Talent Development, HR and Talent partners, business leaders, and subject matter experts to translate strategic priorities and capability needs into practical, engaging, and scalable learning experiences.

The position supports enterprise priorities such as manager effectiveness, leadership development, core competencies, career development, onboarding, functional capability building, and organization-wide learning initiatives. It combines instructional design, program management, facilitation, learning technology, stakeholder partnership, and measurement to strengthen performance, support internal mobility, and advance a consistent learning culture across a global, matrixed organization.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Learning Strategy and Capability Building

• Partner with HR, Talent, and business leaders to identify enterprise and functional capability gaps and translate them into prioritized learning solutions.
• Support the design and execution of enterprise learning strategies, roadmaps, and curricula aligned to business priorities, core competencies, and talent objectives.
• Build scalable learning pathways that clarify required capabilities, proficiency expectations, development resources, and career growth opportunities.
• Connect learning programs to broader talent practices, including performance management, development planning, succession, internal mobility, and leadership expectations.

Leadership and Manager Development

• Design, coordinate, facilitate, and sustain manager and leadership development experiences that strengthen clarity, accountability, coaching, feedback, collaboration, execution, and change leadership.
• Create facilitator guides, participant resources, practice activities, reinforcement tools, and leader-led applications that support transfer of learning to the workplace.
• Partner with senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and subject matter experts to ensure leadership content reflects enterprise expectations and relevant business scenarios.
• Support cohort-based programs, learning communities, peer practice, and reinforcement strategies that build consistent leadership behaviors over time.

Instructional Design and Learning Experience Development

• Apply instructional design and adult learning methodologies, including ADDIE or comparable approaches, to analyze, design, develop, implement, and evaluate learning solutions.
• Develop blended learning experiences that may include instructor-led sessions, virtual learning, e-learning, videos, simulations, job aids, toolkits, assessments, and guided application activities.
• Conduct needs analysis and collaborate with subject matter experts to define learning objectives, organize content, and simplify complex concepts for varied audiences.
• Ensure learning content is engaging, accessible, inclusive, brand-aligned, and appropriate for global and cross-functional audiences.
• Use learning technologies and AI-enabled productivity tools to improve content development, personalization, efficiency, and learner experience.

Program Management and Stakeholder Partnership

• Manage assigned learning initiatives from discovery and design through pilot, launch, evaluation, and sustainment.
• Build project plans, define milestones, coordinate contributors, manage dependencies, identify risks, and communicate status to stakeholders.
• Coordinate delivery logistics for workshops, virtual sessions, learning campaigns, and enterprise rollouts, including schedules, facilitators, resources, communications, and technology.
• Consult with business and HR stakeholders to recommend the right solution, clarify roles and decision points, and maintain alignment throughout the project lifecycle.
• Support global implementation by adapting learning approaches for different functions, regions, audiences, and delivery environments.

Learning Systems, Content Governance, and Curation

• Maintain and publish learning content, pathways, assignments, completions, and reporting within the learning management system.
• Curate internal and external learning resources to create relevant development journeys for enterprise and functional audiences.
• Apply content standards, version control, review cycles, and governance practices to maintain quality, consistency, and usability.
• Support accurate learning records, reporting, curriculum administration, and required training processes in partnership with system owners and HR teams.

Measurement and Continuous Improvement

• Define learning objectives, success measures, and evaluation methods at the outset of assigned initiatives.
• Monitor participation, completion, learner feedback, knowledge gain, application, and relevant business or talent indicators.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to identify trends, assess effectiveness, communicate impact, and recommend improvements.
• Build feedback loops with learners, managers, facilitators, HR partners, and business stakeholders to strengthen program relevance and sustainment.

Enterprise Learning Culture and Collaboration

• Promote common learning practices, shared tools, and reusable resources that improve consistency while allowing appropriate functional flexibility.
• Contribute to enterprise learning communities and cross-functional forums that increase visibility, reduce duplication, and scale effective practices.
• Stay current on learning technologies, instructional design practices, leadership development, talent trends, and emerging uses of AI in learning.

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Learning & Development, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Business, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Communications, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.

Experience

• 5-8+ years of experience in Learning & Development, Talent Development, Organizational Development, Instructional Design, or a related field.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise, corporate, leadership, manager, or professional development programs.
• Experience applying instructional design methodologies and adult learning principles across blended learning formats.
• Experience managing learning projects and partnering with leaders, HR stakeholders, and subject matter experts in a matrixed organization.
• Experience facilitating learning for professional, manager, and leadership audiences.
• Experience using learning data and evaluation methods to improve programs and communicate impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a global or geographically dispersed employee population.
• Experience with enterprise leadership development, competency models, career development, performance management, or talent initiatives.
• Proficiency with learning management systems and e-learning authoring tools such as Articulate 360 or comparable platforms.
• Experience developing virtual, instructor-led, self-guided, and cohort-based learning experiences.
• Experience using Microsoft 365 and AI-enabled tools, including Copilot, to improve learning design and productivity.
• Change management, facilitation, coaching, assessment, or train-the-trainer certification.

Knowledge, Skills, and Capabilities

• Instructional design, adult learning, learning experience design, and performance consulting.
• Leadership and manager development, competency-based development, and career learning pathways.
• Program and project management, stakeholder consulting, facilitation, and change enablement.
• Learning technologies, LMS administration, digital content development, curation, and virtual delivery.
• Learning measurement, data interpretation, continuous improvement, and impact storytelling.
• Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to simplify complex topics and influence across levels and functions.
• Enterprise mindset, business acumen, collaboration, adaptability, creativity, attention to detail, and sound judgment.

Success Measures

• Priority learning initiatives are delivered with strong quality, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution.
• Learning solutions demonstrate participation, completion, learner value, knowledge gain, and on-the-job application appropriate to the program.
• Manager, leadership, and professional capability improves in the behaviors and skills targeted by enterprise programs.
• Career development resources, learning pathways, and competency tools are adopted and used to support meaningful development conversations and internal mobility.
• Learning content and systems are accurate, accessible, current, and governed consistently.
• Stakeholders report strong partnership, clear communication, and confidence in Learning & Talent Development support.
• Programs are improved through data, feedback, and reusable practices that strengthen the enterprise learning ecosystem.

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Revlon is unable to sponsor or transfer employment visas for this role; candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future visa support.

The base pay range for this position is $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 / year; however base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge, and geographic location. Certain positions may also be eligible for short-term incentives as part of total compensation.

Employees (and their families) are eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits. Employees are covered by the company-paid basic life insurance policy and company-paid short-term disability insurance (the benefit commences upon hire and allows for a portion of base salary for up to 26 weeks if you are disabled). Other benefits offered to employees include but are not limited to the following: long-term disability, supplemental life insurances, flexible spending accounts, critical illness insurance, group legal, identity theft protection, etc. Employees are also able to enroll in our 401k Retirement Savings Plan.

Employees will also receive 3 weeks of vacation, pro-rated based on date of hire for the 1st year of employment and twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Vacation will depend on role.