Training Manager, Strategic Initiatives & Enterprise Capability

James Hardie is the industry leader in exterior home and outdoor living solutions, with a portfolio that includes fiber cement, fiber gypsum, composite and PVC decking and railing products. Our family of trusted brands includes Hardie®, Timber Tech®, AZEK® Exteriors, Versatex®, fermacell®, and Stru Xure®.

With over 8,000 employees and our U.S. operating entities headquartered in Chicago, we boast 31 operating sites, 6 recycling facilities, and 6 research and development centers globally. Powered by a dynamic workforce, we’re united by our purpose of Building a Better Future for All™ through sustainable innovation, a Zero Harm culture, and a commitment to empowering our people and communities.

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The Training Manager, Strategic Initiatives and Enterprise Capability, plays a critical role in helping the organization implement, adopt, and sustain the processes, technologies, programs, and skills needed to support enterprise initiatives, business transformation, and priority capability-building needs. This role is responsible for developing integrated training, communication, and change strategies that prepare leaders, managers, and employees to work effectively within new programs and technologies and build knowledge and skills aligned to organizational priorities.

Reporting to the Head of Learning and Development, this position will serve as a trusted partner to HR, business leaders, project teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders. The Training Manager will apply structured learning practices, stakeholder engagement, communications planning, change strategies, and adoption measurement to help ensure strategic initiatives are implemented with minimal disruption and strong employee readiness, adoption, proficiency, and benefit realization.

• Develop and lead integrated training strategies for enterprise initiatives, including organizational changes, process changes, technology implementations, operating model shifts, and other business transformation efforts.
• Design, develop, deliver, and continuously improve blended training solutions, including instructor‑led training, virtual learning, e‑learning, job aids, toolkits, guides, manager talking points, and performance support resources.
• Apply structured methods and tools to assess change impact, stakeholder needs, readiness, risks, resistance points, adoption barriers, and reinforcement requirements.
• Partner with sponsors, senior leaders, people managers, HR Business Partners, project teams, communications teams, and subject matter experts to align training plans with business outcomes and implementation timelines.
• Create stakeholder engagement and change communication strategies that build awareness, understanding, commitment, ownership, and clear action across impacted audiences.
• Build and scale enterprise professional development experiences that translate James Hardie’s strategic priorities into practical learning journeys, capability‑building solutions, and measurable business impact.
• Equip leaders and people managers to sponsor change, communicate effectively, coach employees, manage resistance, and reinforce new behaviors or ways of working.
• Integrate training, communications, and change activities into overall project plans, ensuring dependencies, milestones, resources, risks, and adoption requirements are visible and actively managed.
• Monitor change readiness, training completion, employee feedback, adoption, proficiency, behavior change, and sustainment metrics; use insights to adjust plans and improve outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops, working sessions, sponsor alignment meetings, manager briefings, training sessions, and post‑implementation retrospectives as needed.
• Support post‑implementation…