Learning & Capability Development Manager (Data Centre & MicroE) at Ecolab in Singapore

Job description

We are seeking a high-impact Learning & Capability Development Manager to drive capability, productivity, and performance across our Global High Tech (GHT) business in Southeast Asia. Supporting employees across our Data Center and Microelectronics businesses, this role is responsible for designing, developing, delivering, and continuously improving learning and capability solutions that accelerate employee productivity, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and support the commercial success of our sales and service teams. This is an individual contributor role with regional responsibility across Southeast Asia. The successful candidate will influence capability development through strong partnership, facilitation, and stakeholder management As the capability lead for GHT SEA, you will partner closely with business leaders, sales & services teams, technical consultants, HR, and global learning teams to create structured onboarding programs, learning pathways, sales enablement initiatives, leadership development programs, and AI-driven productivity solutions. You will serve as the primary custodian of the region's learning strategy and capability framework, ensuring employees have the knowledge, skills, and support needed to perform successfully today while adapting to evolving technologies, solutions, and customer needs. This role combines strategic capability development, learning design, facilitation, stakeholder management, learning operations, and performance measurement. Key Responsibilities Drive Capability Development Across GHT SEA Partner with regional and country leaders to identify capability gaps and learning priorities across Sales, Service, Leadership, and customer-facing teams. Develop and execute capability-building strategies aligned to GHT business objectives, growth priorities, and workforce needs. Establish structured learning pathways and development frameworks for GHT teams across the region. Continuously assess organizational capability needs and recommend solutions that improve employee performance and business outcomes. Design and Scale a World-Class Onboarding Experience Own the design and governance of the GHT onboarding framework across Southeast Asia. Develop structured onboarding journeys that enable new hires to achieve productivity within targeted timelines. Build onboarding curricula, learning resources, manager guides, capability milestones, and success measures. Partner with Hiring Managers and business leaders to ensure onboarding programs are consistently executed and effectively embedded across the region. Track onboarding effectiveness, employee progress, and time-to-productivity metrics and continuously improve the onboarding experience based on outcomes and feedback. Build Sales, Service, and Leadership Capability Design and develop learning solutions that strengthen commercial effectiveness, service excellence, product knowledge, and leadership capability. Create GHT-specific sales enablement programs supporting key solutions, technologies, and offerings that are not currently covered by existing global training programs. Design leadership and management development programs that strengthen coaching, people leadership, team effectiveness, and performance management capabilities. Support capability development initiatives that help employees adapt to changing business priorities, market conditions, and customer requirements. Deliver High-Impact Learning Experiences Facilitate and deliver capability programs across Southeast Asia through instructor-led, virtual, workshop, simulation, and blended learning formats. Deliver onboarding, leadership, AI enablement, and GHT-specific capability programs as required. Facilitate learning initiatives that address emerging business needs, product innovations, and commercial priorities. Create engaging learning experiences that maximize knowledge retention, application, and behavior change. Travel across Southeast Asia as required to support capabili