Director of Talent and Development

Overview

Who We Are: At OPENLANE we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful.
We’re a technology company building the world’s most advanced—and uncomplicated—digital marketplace for used vehicles.
We’re a data company helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use.
And we’re an innovation company accelerating the future of wholesale remarketing through curiosity, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Our Values:

• Driven Way builders. We pursue challenges that inspire us to build, create, and innovate.
• Relentless Curiosity. We seek to understand and improve our customers’ experience.
• Smart Risk-Taking. We transform risk into progress through data, experience, and intuition.
• Fearless Ownership. We deliver what we promise and learn along the way.

We are seeking a Director, Talent Growth & Development with experience in leading highly effective talent, learning, and performance initiatives. You will be part of the Human Resources team responsible for driving talent strategies that fuel growth and lead to highly engaged teams.

You will be involved in directing the design and implementation of learning and organizational development programs, driving the execution of the Talent Development strategy, and identifying organization-wide and business unit-specific learning and development needs. In this role, you will have the opportunity to use your experience in organizational development theories, leadership development approaches, and instructional design.

The ideal candidate will have 10 years of progressive Human Resources/Talent Development experience, with 5+ years in organization development/effectiveness, talent Development, leadership development, and internal company business consulting and at least 3+ years in leading HR Professionals.

Strategic. You deliver operational excellence at both the strategic and tactical levels, starting with a vision, you drive talent strategies that fuel growth. You ensure all training and development programs are consistent with OPENLANE values and actively support diversity and inclusion strategies. Your work drives continued growth for our employees through meaningful and engaging content. You provide consultation and oversight in all talent processes, such as succession planning, talent assessment, training and development, and career path solutions.

You direct the collaborative design, development, and implementation of learning and organizational development programs. You partner with HR Business Partners and internal stakeholders to identify talent succession gaps and ensure learning solutions support business objectives. You partner with Talent Acquisition to understand and advise on specific talent skill sets that can be nurtured to drive internal mobility. You partner with the Engagement team to develop and manage a comprehensive onboarding and new hire experience.

Analytical. You perform analysis on the effectiveness and competitiveness of existing talent Development processes and programs. You measure and report on the success of programs through clearly defined metrics, taking appropriate action based on insights.

A Developer. You identify organization-wide and business unit-specific learning and development needs. You develop and implement strategically aligned initiatives to create, lead, and grow world-class training and development programs. You establish and expand training and development programs to enable the leaders, managers and employees of OPENLANE in their personal and professional growth. You manage and lead the talent growth and development team responsible for onboarding, delivery of learning, professional development and talent Development processes.

Lead the charge to deliver highly effective talent, learning, and performance initiatives for OPENLANE. Drive execution of the Talent Development strategy, integrating best practices/trends. Implement solutions to reskill and/or upskill the OPENLANE workforce to meet current and future needs. Ensure high potential and emerging key talent data is captured during the performance review…