Senior Manager, Commercial Training
SKIMS · skims.com
Los AngelesHybridLead / Manager
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The job in short
Commercial training.
Details
- Found
- 21 d ago · posted 2026-10-05
- Location as listed
- Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles HQ
- Role
- Learning & Development / Trainer
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
SKIMS is a solutions-oriented brand creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear, shapewear, and essentials. We are setting new standards by delivering technically innovative, comfort-driven products with elevated design for everybody.
At the intersection of culture, innovation, and commerce, SKIMS is a global brand redefining modern apparel. Our teams are built on creativity, collaboration, and operational excellence, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive, high-performance environment where ambitious, curious, and values-driven individuals can do the best work of their careers.
As we continue to scale globally, our HQ teams play a critical role in shaping strategy, building world-class infrastructure, and driving sustainable growth across markets.
The Senior Manager, Global Commercial Training develops the training strategy, content, and standards for SKIMS’ global physical channels, including full-price, outlet, franchise, and multi-brand environments.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Los Angeles, CA - Hybrid office work schedule
Travel: Up to 75%
Strategy & Content
• Develop the global training roadmap and define required skills and behaviors by role and channel.
Translate commercial, brand, product, operational, and people priorities into scalable programs and tools.
• Partner with Retail and cross-functional leaders on annual and seasonal business priorities, ensuring training plans proactively support key launches, campaigns, product moments, and peak periods.
• Lead the learning strategy for new store, market, and channel launches, ensuring teams are prepared to deliver SKIMS brand, product, service, and selling standards.
• Manage and develop the Manager, Retail Learning Design, ensuring high-quality, adaptable content.
Commercial & Brand Execution
• Build capabilities in product storytelling, styling, selling, client engagement, service, and operational execution.
• Embed the SKIMS selling model and brand standards across all physical consumer touchpoints.
• Partner with commercial leaders to identify performance gaps and develop targeted learning solutions that support key sales, service, and client KPIs.
• Build the capabilities of store and field leaders to coach selling behaviors, reinforce standards, and sustain learning within their teams.
• Maintain a consistent in-field presence across markets and channels, observing the customer and employee experience firsthand, identifying capability gaps, and translating insights into actionable learning solutions.
• Provide real-time coaching and feedback to leaders and teams in the field to reinforce standards and improve execution.
Delivery & Performance
• Own global onboarding and ongoing development, selecting the most effective digital, live, and in field formats.
• Personally facilitate high-impact training experiences, including leadership development, commercial training, new market and store openings, key business moments, and other strategic learning initiatives.
• Set the standard for facilitation excellence globally, modeling engaging, branded delivery and coaching others to consistently deliver against that standard.
• Equip leaders with content, facilitation tools, standards, and certification requirements.
• Build and maintain a global approach that develops strong facilitators and drives consistency in learning delivery across regions and channels.
• Define success measures for global learning initiatives, using field insights, learner feedback, behavioral change, customer experience, and commercial performance to evaluate impact and continuously evolve programs.
• Use performance data and field observations to proactively identify capability gaps and inform future learning priorities.
Partnerships & Governance
• Partner across Commercial, Retail Operations, Retail Multibrand, HR, Product, Brand, Operations, and Legal.
• Maintain global consistency while enabling appropriate regional and channel adaptation.
• Oversee learning records, compliance reporting, and LMS governance.
Qualifications
• Los Angeles-based with the ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 75%
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Retail Training, Commercial Enablement, Business, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in Learning & Development, commercial training, retail training, sales enablement, or a related function within a global, multi-channel retail or consumer brand.
• 3+ years of experience leading and developing learning professionals, with demonstrated ability to set direction, provide meaningful feedback, and elevate the quality and impact of learning programs.
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing global or multi-market learning strategies aligned to commercial priorities, brand standards, customer experience, and business performance.
• Deep understanding of retail and commercial environments, including selling, service, client engagement, product storytelling, styling, and operational execution.
• Proven ability to translate commercial, brand, product, operational, and people priorities into clear skills, behaviors, learning programs, and field-facing tools.
• Experience building scalable learning programs across multiple channels, markets, and employee populations while balancing global consistency with appropriate regional adaptation.
• Experience leading onboarding, ongoing development, product education, selling and service programs, leadership capability, and/or new market and store opening training.
• Strong commercial acumen with demonstrated ability to identify performance gaps and connect learning strategies to measurable business outcomes and KPIs.
• Experience developing or overseeing facilitator-led, digital, field-based, and blended learning programs, with a strong understanding of adult learning and instructional design principles.
• Experience establishing learning standards, facilitator or trainer enablement, certification programs, content governance, and scalable learning processes.
• Strong understanding of learning technology and LMS platforms, including learning administration, reporting, compliance, and governance.
• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence and build credibility with senior leaders and cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across Commercial, Retail, Franchise, Wholesale, HR, Product, Brand, Operations, and Legal in a highly matrixed organization.
• Strong program management and organizational skills, with the ability to lead multiple complex, global initiatives simultaneously from strategy through execution.
• Comfortable leveraging digital learning platforms, AI tools, and emerging learning technologies to improve the scalability, effectiveness, and efficiency of training.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving global environment with a high degree of ownership, adaptability, and judgment.
Benefits, Culture and Perks
Benefits and Culture
• Up to 100% Company Paid Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Kind Body Fertility Benefits
• 401(k) savings plan with up to 4% match
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Access to LinkedIn learning
• Employee Discounts
Perks (HQ Location)
• Free weekly catered lunch at HQ – M/T/W/Th
• Dog-Friendly office on a Thursday and Friday
• Free Swag Giveaways
• Annual Holiday Party
• Annual Summer Party
• Invitations to pop-ups and other company events
• Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages
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