**Who Are We?** Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 160 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it. **Job Category** Training **Compensation Overview** The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards. **Salary Range** $142,500.00 - $235,100.00 **Target Openings** 1 **What Is the Opportunity?** Learning is essential to everything we do. At Travelers we identify, champion, and deliver optimal learning experiences, strategies, and solutions to meet short- and long-term business goals and objectives. As an AVP, Learning Partner, you will provide strategic direction to business partners, subject matter experts, and learning teams to understand business goals, and to influence and lead learning solutions that support short and long-term business goals across lines of business, programs, and/or functions. You will lead the development and implementation of learning strategies as it relates to programs and business goals including proactively interpreting trends and providing insights and recommendations to the senior leadership team. You will foster strong relationships with business partners and learning teams across the enterprise. This position may manage learning and training professionals. **What Will You Do?** + The below duties are expectations either as an individual contributor or managing people: + Establishes and maintains a highly engaged, collaborative environment to attract, retain, and develop talent. + Provide broad leadership to learning product leaders and teams to enable complex decisions impacting multiple functions and lines of business. + Provide broad organizational leadership in support of operational capabilities, resource and capacity management, and learning discipline excellence. + Conduct learning needs analysis to determine need, scope, and required resources and propose learning tools, resources, and methodologies to deliver optimal solutions based on business needs. + Explore new technologies providing feedback and insights on capabilities and implement best practices. + Gather and synthesize information to implement recommendations, gain stakeholder support, and influence and lead solutions. + Manage consistent learning processes, procedures, and standards with the ability to coach and develop team members. + Strategically align resources to accomplish key objectives. + Oversee curriculum development which may include planning, designing, developing, and outlining solutions to learning objectives. Evaluate, analyze, interpret trends, and provide insights and recommendations on learning solutions. + Overall responsibility for vendor management. Create standards for vendors, identify best available vendors, facilitate, and maintain relationships, and negotiate contracts. + Provide leadership and strategic direction to ensure project deliverables and manage risks, including ensuring projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget. Review learning team member projects. + Lead the implementation of structured methodologies, change management activities, and participate in the identification and implementation of enterprise best practices. + Perform other duties as assigned. **What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?** + Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree. + Ten years of experience in respective business operation or other learning and development environment. + Demonstrated experience in developing and implementing strategies and curriculums. + Thorough knowledge of learning technologies, support systems, and methodologies with the ability to make recommendations and lead implementation of those technologies. + Thorough knowledge of the business/personal insurance industry, product lines and general understanding of enterprise processes, applications, and systems with the ability to identify and implement enterprise best practices. + Experience leading and managing complex projects. + Advanced leadership skills with the ability to manage change, develop employees, and align resources to accomplish key objectives. **What is a Must Have?** + Eight years’ experience in a learning and development, training, design, or business-related field. **What Is in It for You?** + **Health Insurance** : Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment. + **Retirement:** Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers. + **Paid Time Off:** Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays. + **Wellness Program:** The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs. + **Volunteer Encouragement:** We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice. **Employment Practices** Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that we can deliver the very best products and services when our workforce reflects the diverse customers and communities we serve. We are committed to recruiting, retaining and developing the diverse talent of all of our employees and fostering an inclusive workplace, where we celebrate differences, promote belonging, and work together to deliver extraordinary results. In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions. If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email (4-ESU@travelers.com) so we may assist you. Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting. To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/ .