- Employment
- Temporary
- Seniority
- Manager
- Compensation
- €45,000/year
- Department
- Human Resources, People & Culture
- Industry
- Fashion, Apparel & Leather Goods
- Posted
- Nov 7, 2026
About Fendi
Founded in Rome in 1925, Fendi stands as one of Italy’s most distinguished luxury houses, celebrated for its exceptional craftsmanship, Roman spirit, and bold creative vision. As an employer, Fendi offers a dynamic environment where heritage and innovation meet across métiers including design, leather goods, fur, ready-to-wear, retail, communications, and corporate functions. The Maison values artisanal excellence, cultural curiosity, entrepreneurial energy, and collaboration, inviting its teams to contribute to a legacy defined by refinement and experimentation. Within the LVMH Group, Fendi provides international career opportunities, strong professional development, and the privilege of shaping the future of contemporary luxury.
FENDI seeks an experienced Learning and Development Manager for a 6–9-month temporary, full-time mission in Rome, within its Global Talent & Learning team. The role will define the FENDI Learning Framework and advance the People Management Program, Onboarding, Career Compass and RISE initiatives worldwide. The initial gross annual salary is €45,000 for new joiners in Italy, may vary based on experience, skills, start date and organizational needs, and the role is subject to the CCNL Commercio.
Role & Responsibilities
- Define the FENDI Learning Framework, translating business, culture and talent priorities into a coherent learning architecture.
- Set organizational learning priorities, audiences, development pathways and learning modalities.
- Connect individual development, managerial capability, career growth and business needs, with clear measures of impact.
- Lead the worldwide roll-out of the People Management Program, using lessons from the 2026 Italy pilot to build a consistent global leadership experience rooted in FENDI culture.
- Turn pilot learnings into a scalable global roll-out strategy with regional HR teams.
- Coordinate learning partners and facilitators, balancing global consistency with local relevance.
- Define and monitor behavioral-change and business-impact measures.
- Define and launch the FENDI Onboarding Program, creating a consistent, engaging experience that brings FENDI’s culture, business and ways of working to life.
- Co-create the onboarding program with key internal stakeholders and establish its global roll-out approach.
- Deliver the first layer of the onboarding program and define measures for adoption and impact.
- Evolve Career Compass into an ongoing career-development approach, building on Career Compass Month and embedding career development in the broader FENDI learning experience.
- Assess the 2026 Career Compass experience and determine what should be scaled or embedded longer term.
- Develop a sustainable career-development proposition with relevant experiences, tools and content.
- Partner with HR and business stakeholders across regions to enable deployment.
- Strengthen RISE learning and capability building through interventions that develop goal setting, feedback, development, performance and career conversations.
- Ensure alignment between RISE, manager development and the broader Talent & Learning strategy.
- Build a modern, impactful learning ecosystem by bringing in external perspectives and exploring blended, digital and AI-enabled learning approaches.
- Curate FENDI and LVMH resources and build scalable solutions for HQ, Retail, Production and Regions.
- Establish clear governance, communication and measurement for the Learning roadmap.
- Review content, challenge partners, facilitate workshops and support market deployment.
- Establish the 2027 Learning roadmap and governance, including priorities, key programs, stakeholders and impact measures.
Qualifications
- Significant Learning & Development, Talent or Leadership Development experience in an international organization.
- Proven ability to design learning strategies and frameworks and deploy people-management programs at scale.
- Strong facilitation, communication, stakeholder-management, project-management and vendor-management skills.
- Ability to combine strategy, program design and hands-on implementation across countries and cultures.
- Fluent Italian and English; experience in luxury, fashion, retail or another global brand-led environment is an advantage.
- At least 5 years of experience.
Skills
Experience
Minimum 5 years
Workplace
This position is based in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Compensation
The base compensation for this position is EUR 45,000 per annum.
Culture
Fendi cultivates a workplace culture rooted in Roman heritage, exceptional craftsmanship, and a forward-looking spirit of creativity. As an employer, it offers a refined, collaborative environment where teams are encouraged to combine technical excellence with bold innovation in service of a distinctive luxury vision.
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