Manager, Skills and Learning Enablement

GEICO • Bethesda, MD

3d • $104,550 - $172,200

About The Position

GEICO is seeking a strategic, collaborative Manager to align skills strategy with broader workforce priorities and build and maintain competency and skills frameworks that connect career opportunities with learning and development pathways. The role translates enterprise talent priorities and current and future workforce needs into practical resources and experiences that help associates understand relevant skills, build capabilities, and pursue career growth.

The Manager partners with Career Framework owners, Learning, Talent, Technology, and business leaders to build a connected skills and learning ecosystem that brings together skills data, learning content, processes, and vendor platform capabilities. The role curates persona-based pathways for key functions, establishes governance, leads emerging enterprise learning initiatives, and drives execution, adoption, and measurable value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Education, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in learning and development, talent management, organizational development, skills strategy, or a related discipline within a complex organization.
• Demonstrated experience developing competency models, skills frameworks, career or learning pathways, or enterprise capability-building initiatives.
• Strong program management skills, including roadmap development, governance, stakeholder alignment, risk management, and disciplined execution.
• Working knowledge of competency models, skills taxonomies, career development, learning ecosystems, and talent technology.
• Experience translating business and talent priorities into practical learning solutions and associate experiences.
• Proven ability to influence leaders and align cross-functional partners without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex concepts and prepare executive-ready recommendations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing or enabling a vendor platform that supports talent marketplaces, career mobility, skills development, or learning.
• Experience connecting skills and competency frameworks with learning content, career pathways, and development experiences.
• Experience establishing governance for enterprise learning, talent, skills, or technology-enabled programs.
• Familiarity with human capital, learning, talent marketplace, or people analytics technology.
• Knowledge of change management, design thinking, agile delivery, or product management practices.
• Advanced degree or relevant certification in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Learning, Program Management, or Change Management.

Responsibilities

• Drive skills strategy with Talent and business leaders, connecting skills priorities to workforce strategy and planning.
• Translate current and future workforce capability needs into a prioritized skills roadmap that guides learning investments and development opportunities.
• Align skills development with career mobility and reskilling priorities to help key functions build capabilities needed for business outcomes.
• Develop and maintain role-based skills and competency models aligned with business priorities and future capability needs.
• Define proficiency expectations that help associates and managers understand development priorities.
• Partner with Career Framework owners to align skills and competencies with roles and career levels.
• Establish processes to keep skills and competency models current, consistent, and useful.
• Curate persona-based learning pathways for key functions, connecting skills and competencies to targeted development journeys aligned with role needs, proficiency levels, and business priorities.
• Connect associates with targeted learning, work experiences, resources, and development opportunities.
• Collaborate with Learning and business partners to keep pathways relevant, accessible, and aligned with evolving capability needs.
• Create guidance to help associates and managers use pathways in development planning.
• Establish the foundational capabilities, processes, and tools needed to deliver and sustain skills-based learning at scale.
• Partner with Learning, Talent, and Technology to connect skills data, learning content, and vendor platform capabilities into a cohesive associate experience.
• Define content-to-skill mapping standards and workflows for pathway creation, publishing, and maintenance, with clear ownership and reliable data.
• Lead and manage strategic workforce development partnerships connecting education benefits, skills-based learning, industry-recognized credentials, and career advancement opportunities.
• Align partnership offerings and investments with enterprise capability priorities, market insights, future workforce needs, and internal career pathways.
• Drive awareness, equitable access, adoption, and effective utilization of workforce development programs, emphasizing emerging skills, critical capabilities, and career mobility.
• Establish success measures and evaluate participation, completion, skill attainment, career outcomes, and partnership performance.
• Lead new enterprise learning and capability-building initiatives as business and talent priorities evolve.
• Translate strategic needs into plans, pilots, learning solutions, and scalable experiences; manage initiatives from discovery and design through rollout, evaluation, and sustainment.
• Apply lessons from initiatives to strengthen future learning programs and delivery practices.
• Establish governance for skills frameworks, learning pathways, vendor platform enablement, and related learning initiatives.
• Clarify ownership, decision rights, standards, review cycles, and partner responsibilities; create processes for consistent decisions, coordinated execution, and timely updates.
• Ensure frameworks, pathways, and related resources remain aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Build and manage integrated plans with milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, and success measures.
• Coordinate cross-functional partners to deliver a connected associate and manager experience; identify issues early and facilitate timely decisions and resolution.
• Prepare executive-ready updates, recommendations, and decision materials.
• Develop communications, resources, manager enablement, and feedback mechanisms to support understanding and adoption.
• Establish measures for pathway engagement, skill development, platform use, and learning impact.
• Use data and stakeholder feedback to improve frameworks, pathways, platform enablement, and learning programs; share insights and recommendations with leaders and partners.

Benefits

• Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support well-being and the future.
• Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager