Manager, Talent Development

• Compensation: CAD 100,000 - CAD 125,000 - yearly

Indigo is a physical and digital place inspired by and filled with books, ideas, beautifully designed lifestyle products, and the creative people who help make it all happen. We believein real books, living life fully and generously, being kind to each other and to the environment,and that stories — big and little — connect us. Indigo is our customer's happy place — for joyful moments of discovery and to connect with people who share their passion for reading, their belief in ideas, and their commitment to making the world a better and more beautiful place.

Our Mission is to inspire reading and enrich the lives of book lovers. As such, we believe inthe power of people and their stories. We aim to attract top talent, nurture the potential ofour employees, and create space for everyone to thrive. Our Guiding Principles are thefew key ideas that are meant to influence everything we do, every day.

• We Will Hire, Inspire, Promote and Retain the Best
• We Will Be Entrepreneurial
• We Will Be Committed to Caring About Each Other, Our Communities, and Our Environment
• We Will Be Committed to True and Shared Value Creation
• We Will Be Systems Thinking, Data Driven and AI enabled

The Manager, Talent Development supports Indigo’s talent strategy by leading the execution, administration, and continuous improvement of talent management, leadership development, succession planning, career development, and employee engagement programs.

Working closely with HR Business Partners, leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders, this role helps build organizational capability by implementing scalable talent practices that strengthen leadership effectiveness, support employee growth, improve engagement, and develop readiness for future business needs. The Manager translates strategy into action, ensuring talent programs are well executed, adopted across the organization, and deliver measurable impact.

• Successful delivery, adoption, and continuous improvement of performance enablement, talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, and career development processes.
• Improved employee sentiment regarding career growth, development opportunities, leadership effectiveness, and internal mobility.
• Increased quality of talent insights, succession plans, talent pipelines, and talent mobility.

• Manage the execution and continuous improvement of Indigo’s enterprise talent processes, including performance enablement, talent reviews, succession planning, critical-role identification, high-potential development, and career development.
• Support the annual talent cycle, establishing clear plans, timelines, communications, governance, and stakeholder accountabilities to ensure effective delivery across the organization.
• Support leadership development programs that build the capabilities required of Indigo leaders and reinforce the organization’s leadership competency model.
• Partner with HR Business Partners, the Director of Talent Development, and business leaders to identify talent and leadership priorities and translate them into practical, scalable development solutions.
• Analyze talent, succession, and engagement data to identify organizational risks, capability gaps, and development priorities, and provide actionable recommendations to HR and business leaders.
• Strengthen succession readiness by maintaining accurate talent profiles, monitoring development actions, and tracking movement in the readiness of successors for critical roles.
• Develop tools, resources, and communications that equip leaders to assess talent, provide meaningful feedback, and conduct effective career and…