Learning & Development Operations Specialist (For contingent workers)
Booking.com
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Onsite
senior
July 18, 2026
€175,000
€87,000
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Job Description
As a Learning & Development Operations Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in delivering a seamless, high-quality learning experience for our colleagues. As part of the People Operations – Talent team, you will be responsible for the operational delivery of our learning programmes, ensuring they are planned, coordinated, and executed efficiently from end to end.
Working closely with Learning & Development, People teams, business stakeholders, and external facilitators, you will coordinate instructor-led and virtual learning sessions, administer learning systems, maintain accurate learning data, and provide reporting and operational insights that support informed decision-making.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys creating structure, improving processes, and delivering operational excellence. You'll combine strong organisational skills with a data-driven mindset to optimise learning operations, enhance the learner experience, and help scale learning programmes that enable our people to grow and succeed.
Responsibility
- Manage the end-to-end operational delivery of learning and development programmes, ensuring seamless planning, execution, and continuous improvement.
- Administer and maintain the Learning Management System (LMS), including course set up, learner enrolment, content management, user support, and data integrity.
- Produce and analyse learning metrics, dashboards, and reports to monitor programme performance, learner engagement, and business impact.
- Coordinate instructor-led and virtual learning sessions, managing scheduling, logistics, learner communications, attendance, and post-session administration.
- Partner with Learning & Development, People Operations, HR, Technology, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, high-quality learning solutions while ensuring operational excellence..
- Work closely with the Global Onboarding team to ensure the coordination of the onboarding process for new starters to the business is effective and as seamless as possible.
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, standardise workflows, and implement automation to improve operational efficiency and learner experience.
- Onboard, collaborate and provide ongoing support to our external learning providers and facilitators by coordinating operational requirements, system access, and session setup.
- Support the implementation, testing, and optimisation of learning technologies, system enhancements, and new operational processes.
- Develop and maintain operational documentation, standard operating procedures, and knowledge resources to support consistency and scalability.
- Provide operational support for learning projects, change initiatives, and continuous improvement activities, ensuring timely delivery against agreed objectives.
- Act as the first point of contact for learning operations queries, resolving system and programme issues while delivering a high standard of support to learners, facilitators, and stakeholders.
Requirements Of Special Knowledge/skills
- 3+ years' experience in Learning & Development Operations, Talent Development, HR Operations, or a related People function, with hands-on experience supporting learning programmes and learning technologies.
Must Have Knowledge In/significant Exposure To
- Learning Operations
- E2E programme management; Learning administration, event scheduling and logistics
- Operational excellence; Process improvement, documentation, attention to detail & problem solving
- Learning lifecycle management
- Learning Systems
- Learning Management System (LMS) administration; User management, course & content creation
- Troubleshooting LMS issues
- Data quality management
- Data & Reporting
- Advanced Microsoft Excel
- Learning reporting
- Data analysis
- KPI tracking
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strong stakeholder communication & expectation management
- Managing competing priorities
- Customer service mindset
- Preferred hands on experience in a fast paced commercial, international environment where business requirements are frequently driven by change. Show understanding of key business drivers and strong business acumen.
- Demonstrable experience of dealing with and prioritising complex business requirements.
The payrate for independent contractors is 15-55 EUR/hr.
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