Director, Learning and Development

Position Summary...

The Director, Learning and Development will oversee the Leadership Development space for Walmart the Worlds #1 retailer. This role will help to shape and execute the Leadership Development strategy to ensure that leaders have the skills that need to be successful not only today but into the future as well. This is an extremely exciting time in the Leadership Development space, combining the solid momentum achieved by current programs and the potential being offered by emerging technology to provide development programs that are truly game changing.

What you'll do...

The ideal candidate will have: 10+ years of experience in large-scale Leadership Development programs Solid background in Learning ; Development with a deep understanding of adult learning theory and frameworks Proven ability to work with stakeholders at the very highest levels Capacity to organize multiple initiatives, workstreams and timelines Ability to gather, analyze and summarize program data in a meaningful way to show program status and impact A deep work ethic, and a natural fit with the Walmart culture What youll do Develops training development strategies by evaluating business needs and desired outcomes serving as a learning and development subject matter expert evaluating the business impact of different training practices overseeing the testing of different training approaches and evaluating the results providing guidance and direction regarding training methods Academy processes and data management processes leading relationships with key business partners to ensure roles and responsibilities are understood and ensuring training feedback is reviewed and incorporated into future plans and strategies Oversees the strategy for the development of digital and physical training material by ensuring the development of solutions for implementation issues overseeing and ensuring postediting and formatting of content according to delivery limitations driving brand consistency and best practices understanding and determining various media formats and delivery options and overseeing and ensuring the cross training of team members on various techniques Drives the management of assigned training projects by overseeing the development and execution of capacity planning overseeing the creation of business and systems documents acting as a subject matter expert for issues related to techniques for training content development and deliverydriving recommendations on digital training asset opportunities addressing and providing solutions for project changes and issues and updating executive leadership on projects Oversees associate development by mentoring and teaching team members assigning and overseeing tasks and reviewing and approving recommended solutions Directs the development of training programs performance support tools and resources by overseeing the research of learner needs learning environments knowledge gaps and behavioral changes in conjunction with other areas of learning and development creating blended learningoptions analyzing needs analysis evaluating current learning solutions developing adaptation methods for course content to meet training education and development needs developing and recommending process standards and best practices to drive consistency across the companyinfluencing leadership and gaining buy-in to implement training programs and ensuring alignment with technology and business support infrastructure Provides overall direction by analyzing business objectives and customer needs developing communicating building support for and implementing business strategies plans and practices analyzing costs and forecasts and incorporating them into business plans determining and supporting resource requirements evaluating operational processes measuring outcomes to ensure desired results identifying and capitaliz