Director, Talent Development

Job Posting End Date: April 30

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide: 

• Award-winning culture 

• Inclusion and diversity as a priority 

• Performance Based Incentive Plans

• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability 

• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!) 

• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution 

• Mental health support 

• Career advancement opportunities 

• Student loan repayment options 

• Tuition reimbursement

• Flexible work environments 

*All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…  

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today! 

General Summary:

This role is responsible to build organizational capability that supports business strategy and contributes to the success of our company through the identification, and consultation on talent development strategies in assigned client organizations. This requires building relationships, understanding business priorities, assessing business issues impacting talent needs and creating talent development strategies to address those needs, in partnership with HRBPs and other L&D teams. This position also supports the succession strategy by accelerating the readiness of officer-level talent through focused coaching and will help accelerate and enhance leadership performance and scope, and support the growth and development of leaders and high‑potential talent as they navigate organizational and work environment changes.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities  

• Responsible for building and managing relationships with Senior and other appropriate business leadership team members, P&C partners including HRBPS, and other key stakeholders to understand the assigned group’s strategy and priorities related to their talent management and development goals.   
• Identify and build strategies to support development for high potential talent within the organization, with a focus on maximizing the performance, growth, and retention of this talent.
• Partner with the I&D team to co-create strategies that actively support our I&D goals.
• Know and understand key talent in assigned business area to inform decisions about development strategies, including who would most benefit from Enterprise offerings that have limited capacity. 
• Appropriately challenge when required and develop Talent Strategies that align to and support the business and enterprise objectives.   
• Provide a more relevant and strategic service for the business areas through talent development consultation and solutions that truly impact business performance. 
• Support and influence assigned client area by socializing and supporting broader enterprise solutions (ex. Change management, Talent Review/Succession Management, Onboarding, etc.) and consulting on how to best implement and maximize these tools within the context of the organization.
• Provide strategic talent management consulting in collaboration with the Global Talent and Inclusion organization to ensure we have clear strategies around enterprise-wide policies that impact global talent.
• Collaborate as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution, and: 
• Actively shape and contribute to the strategic talent management vision that motivates and excites others. 
• Support and promote opportunities which strengthen the Unum brand. 
• Set expectations and promote conditions which enable others to deliver high quality work. 
• Supports business objectives by setting and measuring KPIs