Director, Training Product Development

Save lives, from the workplace to anyplace.

The National Safety Council is America’s leading nonprofit safety advocate.  We focus on eliminating the leading causes of preventable injuries and deaths.  Through leadership, research, education, and advocacy, NSC focuses on areas where most unintentional injuries and deaths occur. 

We are currently looking for a Director, Training Product Development to join us in our mission to save lives and prevent injuries.

Position Highlights:
National Safety Council (NSC) is currently seeking a seasoned, progressive and innovative Director of Training Product Development to lead NSC’s Training product management team. This Director role will be responsible for managing a diverse training product portfolio, leading short and long-range planning for a multi-faceted curriculum, and optimizing operational execution within product development, production, and ongoing management. Responsibilities will encompass overseeing NSC’s training products including the Defensive Driving Course, First Aid, Workplace Training, and others. Reporting to the EVP of Training, this key individual will play an important leadership role in determining business, portfolio, and product strategy, setting direction, forming and managing partnerships, bringing the voice of the customer into the organization, and building a high-performing product management organization. This Director of Product Management role will have a unique opportunity to build best-in-class processes and go-to-market approaches. The vision and capabilities of this individual will have a substantial impact on the success of the company.

Leads a function or significant discipline (department) within a function. Direct the execution of functional strategy. Develops strategies for and leads programs with significant impact to the broader organization. Influences senior leaders’ decisions that have an impact on the function or the NSC overall mission. Directs the work for a function of the organization and manages employees. Program budget creation and management.

What You’ll Do:

• Support the execution of the product portfolio strategy — including vision, customer persona, positioning, differentiation, and roadmap — ensuring alignment with our mission, while contributing to short- and long-range planning in close cross-functional collaboration.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts (SMEs) to analyze training needs and translate complex content into clear, engaging learning experiences.

• Drive operational execution within the product development, production and commercial functions and meeting key business outcomes across those areas.

• Design and implement product development and commercialization plans to ensure successful execution of the company’s strategy.

• Maintain knowledge of the market and establish competitive intelligence through research.

• Establish a Product Development Roadmap for initial and future product lines and manage it as required for the purpose of meeting deliverables for the business (the achievement of growth objectives including market share, revenue, profit, and return on investment for all the channels/categories of business and/or key customers).

• Set Operational Goals and Metrics for the product development, production, and commercial functions to align with overall business strategy and direction.
• Oversee the content development and publishing process using authoring tools and learning management systems, ensuring efficient workflows, quality standards, and timely delivery of product.

• Prepare and ensure adherence to the company operating budget.

• Outreach
  • Present at and attend key industry and business meetings; keep abreast of all relevant competitor activities as well as various industry reports and findings.
  • Participate in and, when needed, lead interactions with current and prospective business partners.
  • Identify and conduct interactions with external subject matter experts and stakeholders.
  • Bring the Voice of Customers into the organization to shape portfolio & individual product development strategies and plans.
  • Participate in trade shows or other similar events.

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