Learning Professional (ASML Prioritized Initiatives)

Introduction to the job

ASML is the world's leading supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. Across our global manufacturing network, thousands of employees contribute every day to building some of the most advanced machines in the world. To remain successful, ASML continuously evolves its processes, systems, and ways of working.

Many of these changes are driven by large-scale improvement programs that impact multiple sectors, factories, and employee groups worldwide. Within ASML, these initiatives are referred to as APIs (ASML Prioritized Initiatives): strategic transformation programs that help ASML prepare for future growth, scalability, standardization, and operational excellence.

While these initiatives create business value, successful implementation ultimately depends on people. Employees need to understand what is changing, why it is changing, and how they can successfully perform in the new situation. This is particularly important within Manufacturing, where global standards must often be translated into local factory realities, different organizational structures, and diverse target audiences.

This is where the Manufacturing Academy plays a key role.

Within the Manufacturing API Learning team, we help Manufacturing employees successfully navigate complex business transformations by translating change into effective learning, knowledge, and performance enablement solutions. We partner with global programs, Business Process Improvement (BPI), Manufacturing Change Management, Business Learning teams, factory stakeholders, subject matter experts, and end users to ensure people remain capable, confident, and productive throughout change.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Learning Professional (APIs) who thrives in complexity, enjoys creating structure in ambiguity, and is passionate about helping people perform successfully in changing environments.

Role and responsibilities

As our new API Learning Professional, you will operate at the intersection of learning, change enablement, business transformation, and manufacturing operations.

You will work closely with stakeholders across Manufacturing, BPI, Change Management, Learning organizations, and strategic programs to ensure employees are prepared for upcoming changes and can continue to perform successfully before, during, and after implementation.

In this role, you will work on:

• Analyzing and understanding impact
  • Conduct performance and learning analyses for large-scale transformation initiatives.
  • Identify the impact of process, system, and organizational changes on Manufacturing employees.
  • Determine when training is needed and when alternative performance support interventions are more appropriate.
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• Designing learning and enablement approaches
  • Design learning, knowledge, and performance support solutions that help employees navigate change effectively using evidence-based methodologies to create.

In this role, you support:

• Navigating complex stakeholder environments
  • Act as a trusted advisor to programs, business stakeholders, and learning partners by aligning diverse perspectives and competing priorities
  • Represent the Manufacturing perspective in strategic discussions and decision-making.
  • Influence without formal authority while maintaining strong relationships across the ecosystem.

• Creating structure in complexity
  • Establish practical approaches, frameworks, templates, and working methods in situations where the path forward is not yet fully defined.
  • Provide input to the Learning Business Partner and Project Lead to create governance, planning, tracking, and reporting activities where needed.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of the API  Learning team's ways of working.

• Ensuring business continuity
  • Help Manufacturing organizations successfully adopt new ways of working with minimal disruption.
  • Enable employees to remain productive and effective throughout transformation journeys.
  • Contribute to scalable and sustainable learning solutions that can be leveraged across factories and future initiatives.

What you bring

We are looking for someone who combines Learning expertise with business acumen, stakeholder influence, and the ability to operate effectively in dynamic environments.

Education and experience

Bachelor's or master's degree in Educational Sciences, Learning Sciences, Change Management, Instructional Design, Organizational Learning, Educational & Organizational Psychology, or related discipline.

Task Experience

• Experience conducting learning needs analyses and performance analyses.
• Experience designing and developing learning solutions and performance support solutions.
• Experience translating business requirements into practical learner-centered solutions.

Organizational Experience

• Experience operating in complex stakeholder environments and matrix organizations.
• Experience supporting large-scale business transformation, process optimization, change enablement, or digital transformation initiatives.

Skills and capabilities

• Strong stakeholder management and consulting skills.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to influence without formal authority.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and make informed decisions despite incomplete information.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic execution.
• Digital curiosity and affinity with technology-enabled learning solutions.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools within daily work.

You will thrive if you:

• Enjoy solving time-sensitive complex challenges.
• Feel comfortable operating in rapidly changing environments.
• Can make progress when not all answers are available.
• Are able to create structure where none exists.
• Can balance competing stakeholder expectations.
• Remain pragmatic when priorities shift.
• Enjoy collaborating in a highly autonomous and self-driven team environment.
• Have a genuine interest in helping people perform successfully through change.

Nice to have

The following experience would be considered an advantage:

• Knowledge of ASML Manufacturing and factory operations.
• Experience working within Digital Transformation, or Process Excellence initiatives.
• Experience with Change Management practices and business adoption strategies.
• Experience with performance support and workflow learning solutions such as the 5 Moments of Need® methodology.Experience with 4C/ID (Four Component Instructional Design) methodology.
• Experience with 12 Levers of Transfer Effectiveness®.
• Experience with learning evaluation and business impact measurement (ROI, Philips, Kirkpatrick).
• Experience with Articulate Storyline, Synthesia, or similar learning technologies.
• Experience using Copilot and other AI-enabled tools for analysis, design, and development activities.

Interested?

Do you enjoy turning complexity into clarity? Do you like working at the intersection of business transformation, learning, and human performance? Are you energized by helping Manufacturing employees succeed through change?

Then we would love to meet you.

Join the API Learning team and help shape how ASML enables its global Manufacturing workforce for the next generation of business transformation.

Ready to make change work for people, not just processes? Apply now and help us build the future of learning and performance at ASML.

Inclusion and diversity

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that inclusion and diversity is a driving force in the success of our company.

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