Global Learning Team Leader

Booking Booking · Hospitality · Amsterdam, Netherlands · Business Development & Support

This role leads a team responsible for the operating backbone of the Learning & Development function within Booking.com's Customer Service division. The team manages learning operations, skills strategy, analytics, content governance, and learning technology systems, including GenAI platforms. The leader will partner with stakeholders to ensure learning drives business performance and customer outcomes.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing specialist team across planning, analytics, governance, and operations, fostering a culture of ownership and psychological safety.
  2. Own intake, prioritisation, capacity planning, and delivery tracking via Jira, ensuring learning work is sequenced against product changes, service launches, and strategic business priorities.
  3. Maintain the Skills and Objectives Map and partner with stakeholders (Operations, Quality, etc.) to run gap analyses grounded in metrics like CSAT, AHT, FCR, and quality.
  4. Manage and evolve the learning tech stack (LMS, simulations, analytics, GenAI platforms) and lead content library governance, including refresh and retirement cycles.
  5. Position L&D as a strategic performance partner, communicating priorities, managing trade-offs, and converting feedback into clear design requirements for the Learning Experience team.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Team Leader with proven ability to coach talent and manage team performance.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in a Customer Service team, with a strong understanding of contact centre workflows, workforce implications, and operational metrics.
  • Significant experience leading strategic learning programmes end-end in complex operational, contact centre, or global/vendor-supported environments.
  • Strong capability to use data dashboards, reporting frameworks, and ROI tracking to measure learning performance and improve operational outcomes.
  • Proficient in agile ways of working, including using Jira or similar tools to manage work, track sprint planning, and navigate fast-moving environments.
  • Experience managing learning tech ecosystems (LMS, simulations, digital tools) and diagnosing whether performance gaps require training or tooling/process changes.
  • Bachelor’s degree is mandatory

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree is preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • skills-first
  • measurable
  • directly connected to business performance
  • scalable, data-informed system
  • directly drives global contact centre performance and customer outcomes
  • service delivery needs
  • performance data
  • learning analysis
  • core operating backbone
  • skills strategy
  • analytics
  • content governance
  • tech systems
  • strategic Learning Business Partner
  • strategic people leadership role
  • connect contact centre metrics
  • agile operations
  • high-performing system
  • Team Leadership & Culture
  • Agile Portfolio Management
  • Data-Driven Performance & Mapping
  • Tech Stack & Governance
  • Strategic Stakeholder Management
  • strategic performance partner
  • Leadership Experience
  • Customer Service Expertise
  • Strategic L&D Background
  • AI & Data Literacy
  • Agile Practices & Tooling
  • Problem Solving & Tech Ecosystems