cosnovAcademy: From Learning Administration to Talent Development

Never stop learning – a global Academy for continous Development

With cosnovAcademy, the international cosmetics company cosnova has created a central platform – a learning management system – that goes far beyond simply managing training programs. Today, the Academy supports approximately 1,200 employees at nine international locations in taking charge of their own development, building new skills, and pursuing individual career goals.

In collaboration with clickandlearn, a modern learning and talent development platform based on eFront LMS was developed in just three months – scalable, multilingual, and closely tailored to the company’s HR processes.

About cosnova

cosnova is one of Europe’s most successful cosmetics companies and is behind the internationally renowned brands essence and Catrice. The company combines innovative strength, an international outlook, and a modern corporate culture that promotes personal responsibility, growth, and continuous learning.

With employees at locations in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Africa, cosnova is committed to fostering talent in a sustainable manner and offering employees attractive opportunities for personal and professional growth.

The challenge

As part of a comprehensive digital transformation project, cosnova faced the challenge of consolidating all learning and development activities onto a single central platform.

Until then, continuing education programs, mandatory training, and professional development opportunities had been spread across various systems and processes. At the same time, there was a growing need to make learning available internationally in the future and to provide employees with easy access to relevant learning opportunities.

Therefore, the search was not for a traditional learning platform, but rather for a solution that:

• promotes individual employee development,
• actively involves managers,
• Manages continuing education budgets,
• integrated external learning opportunities and
• can easily accommodate future growth.

In addition to its extensive range of features, the solution’s high level of customizability played a particularly decisive role in the selection process.

The solution

Using eFront LMS, clickandlearn launched the new cosnovAcademy in just three months.

From the very beginning, the platform was not viewed as merely a learning management system. Rather, it was intended to serve as a central infrastructure for learning, development, and talent promotion.

Today, the Academy brings together all relevant learning and development processes in one place:

• Onboarding New Employees
• Mandatory and Compliance Training
• interne Weiterbildungsangebote
• External Training Sessions
• Budget Management
• Approval Workflows
• Reporting for HR and Executives

Thanks to its flexible configuration, the platform could be optimally adapted to cosnova’s existing HR processes.

Implementation in just three months

Despite the high demands, the new Academy was launched in just three months.

Particular emphasis was placed on international scalability. The platform is currently used in four languages.

In this way, the Academy supports employees at its international locations around the world.

In addition, external learning libraries have been integrated over time, which has significantly expanded the range of learning resources available.

Talent Development as a Strategic Success Factor

The real value of cosnovAcademy lies not in providing training, but in linking learning with employee development.

The starting point is the annual Performance & Development Dialogue. Employees and managers work together to define business and personal development goals and discuss individual development priorities and actions.

Based on this, employees can select appropriate learning opportunities from the course catalog and take charge of their own professional development.

In this way, the Academy supports the shift from administrative training management to an active culture of learning and development.

Managers play a central role in this process. They support their teams in their development, promote skill-building, and at the same time maintain transparency regarding ongoing development initiatives.

International Learning Academy with a variety of learning formats

Today, the Cosnova Academy offers nearly 700 active courses and caters to a variety of learning needs.

Among other things, the following are available:

• E-Learnings
• Tailored Team Trainings
• Live Presence Trainings
• Live Online Trainings
• Live Hybrid Trainings
• Development Tools

This allows employees to learn flexibly – regardless of location, time zone, or preferred learning format.

Results at a Glance

The Academy’s development shows how learning can become a strategic success factor:

• Implementation in just 3 months
• Growth from 500 users at go-live to approximately 1,200 users
• Used at 9 international locations
• Available in 4 languages
• Nearly 700 active courses
• More than 25,000 course completions
• Integration of External Learning Ecosystems
• Digital Mapping of Key HR and Development Processes

Why eFront LMS?

For cosnova, two factors in particular were decisive:

First, the extensive range of features in eFront LMS, which supports both traditional learning management needs and complex development processes.

On the other hand, the platform’s high level of flexibility, which enables the precise mapping of existing HR and talent development processes.

This resulted in a solution that not only meets current requirements but also supports future growth.

Conclusion

With the cosnovAcademy, cosnova has created a central platform that combines learning, development, and talent promotion.

What began as a digital transformation project has evolved into a strategic tool for international talent development. The Academy helps employees realize their potential, supports managers in developing their teams, and assists HR in fostering a modern learning and development culture.

In collaboration with clickandlearn, we created a future-proof Learning Academy that goes far beyond traditional training management.

Customer statement

“This collaboration has shown just how effective e-learning can be when content is presented in a pedagogically sound way. We were particularly impressed by how interactive modules make complex technical topics easy to understand and relevant to real-world applications. Together, we are building a sustainable knowledge base for our sales team. The Academy is our global platform for everything related to learning—the one-stop resource for our employees. It supports them from their first day on the job throughout their entire learning and development journey. The platform is managed by the Talent Development team, and together with clickandlearn, we are continuously improving it to make it even more user-friendly and valuable for our employees.

– Amelie Jürgens, Senior Manager Employee Development, cosnova