Head of EMEA Employee Training Transformation (f/m/x)

Sysmex is shaping the future of healthcare diagnostics with innovation and passion. In our new, modern headquarters in Hamburg, we offer a collaborative and inspiring work environment designed for creativity and growth. As part of a global team, you will contribute to improving patients’ healthcare journeys every day. Join us and experience a workplace that combines cutting-edge technology with a culture of openness and development and live our mission every day: “Together for a better healthcare journey.”

Are you looking for more than just a job, for something truly meaningful and rewarding? Then Sysmex Europe SE is the place for you. As the regional headquarters for the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region, our company is dedicated to providing essential products that help people worldwide on their healthcare journey.

If this opportunity appeals to you, come and join us in the position of

Head of EMEA Employee Training Transformation (f/m/x)

Your Role

As Head of EMEA Employee Training Transformation (f/m/x), you will drive the strategic transformation of employee training across the EMEA region. You will establish a demand-driven training approach, modernize learning concepts, and ensure consistent, high-quality training delivery that supports business needs. Working closely with international stakeholders, you will act as a key driver of learning excellence and organizational change. Your key responsibilities include:

• Training Strategy & Planning: Develop and implement a demand-driven planning approach for application, service, and sales training across the Caresphere Academy EMEA, META Academy, and Satellite Academies. Collaborate with Technical Service, Marketing, HR, regional leadership, and affiliates to align training capacity with business needs and workforce planning.
• Trainer Excellence & Governance: Manage assignment process of international EMEA product trainer team and continuously improve the qualification, sustainable trainer development and governance framework for the international EMEA trainer community, ensuring consistent training quality and standardized delivery by collaborating with training delivery functions.
• Learning Transformation: Drive the transition to modern learning concepts by expanding blended, continuous and adaptive learning formats, increasing training efficiency, and enabling training teams to adopt innovative learning technologies and methodologies.
• Learning Strategy & Optimization: Ensure the successful implementation of the EMEA learning strategy by reviewing training concepts from a didactical perspective, optimizing learning formats, and balancing learning effectiveness with training efficiency.
• Stakeholder & Change Management: Partner with senior stakeholders across Marketing, Technical Service, HR, Learning Campus, regional organizations, and affiliates to successfully implement balanced EMEA-wide learning time framework and drive organizational change.

Your Profile

You will thrive in this role if you are a strategic and collaborative leader with a passion for learning transformation and the ability to drive change in an international matrix organization. Ideally, you bring the following qualifications and strengths:

• A university degree or significant professional experience in Learning & Development, Education, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or a comparable field
• Experience leading international transformation projects, learning initiatives, or organizational development programs
• Strong knowledge of modern learning methodologies, blended learning concepts, and digital learning technologies
• Excellent project management, analytical, and conceptual skills with the ability to translate business needs into scalable learning solutions
• Outstanding communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders across functions and regions
• A diplomatic, collaborative, and change-oriented mindset with a proactive and solution-oriented approach
• Excellent English language skills, written and spoken
• Hamburg-based role

Our Benefits

• Culture & cooperation: An appreciative work environment, open corporate culture, flat hierarchies and an inclusive and caring atmosphere. Working in an innovative and international environment with a broad learning and development landscape in our EMEA Campus, after-work events for internal networking.

• Work-life balance: Flexible working through flextime and a hybrid working model (60% mobile working, 40% on-site), 30 days annual leave.

• Additional benefits: Attractive compensation package including Christmas and vacation pay, childcare allowance, capital-forming benefits, subsidy for company pension scheme, corporate benefits, relocation assistance, subsidised lunch in our canteen.

• Health & wellbeing: Subsidized EGYM Wellpass with access to 13,500 studios, plus in-house gym, various sports courses, massages, company medical and psychological care, workplace glasses, and general health management.

• Mobility: Subsidy for the public transport „Deutschlandticket“, free parking, bike leasing via JobRad.

• Social Responsibility: Various opportunities to get involved in different sustainability and charity initiatives, climate friendly and respectful use of resources.

Did we spark your interest? Then we look forward to receiving your application, including your salary expectations and earliest possible start date.

Do you have questions?

Léa Sanft

[email protected]

Reference No.: #1423

Sysmex Europe SE, Deelböge 19 D, 22297 Hamburg