Group Learning Director

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Led by Rodolphe Saadé, the CMA CGM Group, a global leader in shipping and logistics, serves more than 420 ports around the world on five continents. With its subsidiary CEVA Logistics, a world leader in logistics, and its air freight division CMA CGM AIR CARGO, the CMA CGM Group is continually innovating to offer its customers a complete and increasingly efficient range of new shipping, land, air and logistics solutions.

Committed to the energy transition in shipping, and a pioneer in the use of alternative fuels, the CMA CGM Group has set a target to become Net Zero Carbon by 2050.
Through the CMA CGM Foundation, the Group acts in humanitarian crises that require an emergency response by mobilizing the Group’s shipping and logistics expertise to bring humanitarian supplies around the world.

Present in 160 countries through its network of more than 400 offices and 750 warehouses, the Group employs more than 155,000 people worldwide, including 4,000 in Marseilles where its head office is located.

YOUR ROLE

The Group Learning Director is a visible and legitimate leadership role, acting as a strategic sparring partner to the VP Group Learning to drive the Group Learning transformation.
The role ensures alignment, operational excellence, and a high-impact learner experience across the Group, with end-to-end responsibility over the following core pillars:

• LX Factory (Learner Experience & Innovation)
• Logistics Academy (functional reporting)

The role incorporates a strong managerial dimension, with direct leadership over Learning Operations, LX Factory, and Academy teams (Shipping Academy, Group Functions Academy, Logistics Academy), representing more than 30 people, and ensuring performance, cohesion, and capability development across the entire Group Learning organization.
With a transversal and integrated vision, the Director oversees both ‘back-office’ teams and front-office teams, and acts as the single point of contact for the VP Group Learning on transversal Learning services, governance, and digital learning tools, centralizing academy needs to drive consistency, scalability, and continuous evolution.
The scope is designed to evolve with the Group Learning maturity and organizational needs and requires strong leadership to actively drive and accompany change across all learning stakeholders.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?

• Provide strong leadership to Learning Operations, LX Factory, Shipping Academy, Group Functions Academy and Logistic Academy teams, representing more than 30 people
• Act as the single point of contact for the VP Group Learning on all Learning matters, ensuring clear accountability, structured reporting, and alignment on priorities
• Define a clear vision and drive capability building across both back-office and front-office learning teams
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across the entire Group Learning organization
• Lead workforce planning, recruitment, performance management, and succession planning
• Strengthen engagement and synergies between central teams and Academies to maximize collective impact
• Act as a role model for Group leadership behaviors, promoting inclusivity, empowerment, and transparency.

Learning Operations

• Lead and structure end-to-end Group Learning Operations, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and consistency across divisions and Academies
• Define and harmonize operating models, processes, standards, and service levels
• Drive alignment and adoption of Group Learning solutions through effective change management
• Foster cross-divisional collaboration and operational excellence
• Define and manage the Group Learning budget, ensuring optimal resource allocation
• Establish and pilot Group-level KPIs covering learning effectiveness, operational efficiency, learner experience, and Return on Learning (ROL)
• Monitor performance, analyze data, and translate insights into actionable improvements
• Provide structured reporting to the VP Group Learning and key stakeholders.

LX Factory (Learner Experience & Innovation)

• Ensure learning solutions are innovative, engaging, and digital-first
• Lead and inspire the LX Factory team, promoting creativity, innovation, and adopting cutting‑edge learning practices
• Strengthen learning communication and engagement to deliver a seamless learner journe
• Define and deploy common pedagogical frameworks and learner experience standards.

Academies (Shipping Academy & Group Functions Academy)

• Provide direct managerial leadership to Shipping Academy & Group Functions Academy, ensuring alignment with Group Learning strategy and prioritie