Senior Manager, Talent Management and Leadership Development

Company Overview Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including food service, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Summary:

The Senior Manager, Talent Management and Leadership Development is accountable for enterprise talent management and leadership development processes that build leadership capability, strengthen talent pipelines, and enable business performance across Novolex. With an approximately equal focus on both disciplines, this role leads the strategy, design, governance, continuous improvement, and center-led delivery of salaried onboarding; talent and performance management cycles; leadership development and center-led programs;

and the Emerging Leaders Program for high-potential mid-level managers. The role partners with field and business HR teams that own local execution, uses data and AI-enabled learning approaches to improve impact and scale, facilitates high-value development experiences, manages external vendors, and leads or contributes to cross-functional project teams based on business need.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Salaried Onboarding – Own the enterprise salaried onboarding experience, including program design, content, tools, communications, governance, and continuous improvement. Partner with field and business HR teams and hiring leaders to enable consistent local execution and help new hires integrate quickly and effectively into Novolex.
• Talent and Performance Management – Lead the design, annual planning, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise talent and performance processes, including goal setting, performance reviews, talent reviews and calibration, succession planning, and development planning.
• Leadership Development – Translate enterprise priorities and leadership capability needs into practical, scalable development strategies, curricula, and experiences for leaders at multiple levels. Own the strategy, design, governance, and continuous improvement of the Emerging Leaders Program for high-potential mid-level managers.
• Facilitation and Learning Experience – Facilitate high-impact virtual and in-person learning experiences; equip internal facilitators; and apply adult-learning, blended-learning, and learner-experience principles to drive adoption and application.
• AI-Enabled Learning and Innovation – Evaluate and responsibly apply AI-enabled learning tools and digital solutions to personalize development, improve access, increase efficiency, and scale learning while maintaining appropriate governance, data privacy, and quality standards.
• Measurement and Continuous Improvement – Establish program metrics and feedback mechanisms; analyze participation, effectiveness, talent, and business data; and provide clear insights and recommendations to improve outcomes.
• Stakeholder, Vendor, and Change Leadership – Partner with business leaders, HR leaders, field HR, HR technology, communications, and other stakeholders to clarify roles, enable execution,…