Director, Global Learning and Development

Sysco Corp.; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sysco Corp. is seeking a Director of Global Learning & Development in Houston. The role leads the enterprise learning strategy, governance, and ecosystem to deliver scalable, impactful programs across Sysco, partnering with Talent & Leadership, HR, and business leaders.

This hybrid role requires on-site presence 3–4 days per week, with flexibility based on business needs. The Director will drive learning solutions, compliance, and platforms, fostering innovation in learning technologies and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience in Learning & Development, Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Education, Business or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree or relevant postgraduate qualification in Learning & Development, Human Resources, Organizational Psychology or related field.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise strategy, capability priorities and business needs into a clear global Learning & Development strategy and roadmap.
• Lead execution across Sysco, ensuring learning priorities and investment are focused on building capabilities that create meaningful business and colleague impact.
• Design, integrate and evolve Sysco's global learning ecosystem, creating coherent learning pathways, content, platforms and standards.
• Lead the enterprise approach to global compliance and required learning, ensuring regulatory and organisational requirements are met.
• Oversee the use and evolution of learning technologies, digital learning and emerging approaches to capability building.
• Build partnerships across Sysco to connect learning activity and leverage assets while preserving specialist expertise.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Advanced degree or relevant postgraduate qualification

Job description

Our Global Support Center/ Corporate Office is in the Energy Corridor- off I10 and N Eldridge.

Address: 1390 Enclave Pkwy, Houston, TX 77077

This is a hybrid position requiring an on-site presence 3 to 4 days per week.

Please note that the number of days on-site can increase based on business needs.

The Director, Global Learning & Development leads the translation of Sysco's enterprise and business capability priorities into contemporary, scalable and effective learning solutions, ensuring colleagues have access to the learning and development required to perform today and build capability for the future.

The role leads Sysco's global Learning & Development strategy and ecosystem, including enterprise learning solutions, global compliance and required learning, learning technologies and platforms, external learning partners, learning operations and measurement. The role brings deep Learning & Development expertise and external perspective to continuously evolve how learning is designed, accessed and experienced across Sysco.

Working in close partnership with Talent & Leadership, OD & Change, Human Resources, business and functional leaders and embedded Learning & Development teams, the role diagnoses capability and performance needs and determines where learning can create meaningful impact. The role connects and enables learning activity across Sysco, from a governance, standards and consistency perspective, creating greater coherence, sharing expertise and solutions, reducing unnecessary duplication and enabling the organisation to leverage its learning investment more effectively.

The role serves as Sysco's enterprise Learning & Development expert, bringing emerging thinking, learning science, technology and innovative practice into the organisation and applying these pragmatically to build capability and improve business and colleague outcomes.

-15% Translate enterprise strategy, capability priorities and business needs into a clear global Learning & Development strategy and roadmap. Lead execution across Sysco, ensuring learning priorities and investment are focused on building capabilities that create meaningful business and colleague impact.

Enterprise Capability Solutions

-20% Partner with Talent & Leadership, Human Resources and business leaders to diagnose capability and performance needs and translate identified priorities into practical, contemporary and scalable learning and development solutions. Challenge assumptions about when learning is - and is not - the appropriate response and apply effective approaches to build capability and improve performance.

-10% Design, integrate and continuously evolve Sysco's global learning ecosystem, creating coherent approaches to learning pathways, content, platforms, methodologies and standards while enabling appropriate flexibility across businesses, functions, markets and geographies. Identify opportunities to connect and leverage learning assets and expertise across Sysco.

Global Compliance & Required Learning

-15% Lead the enterprise approach to global compliance and required learning, partnering with Legal, Risk & Compliance, Human Resources and business stakeholders to ensure learning requirements are effectively governed, delivered, tracked and continuously improved. Ensure regulatory and organisational requirements are met while creating an effective and accessible colleague experience.

-10% Lead the effective use and evolution of learning technologies, digital learning and emerging approaches to capability building. Continuously scan developments in learning science, technology, artificial intelligence and external practice, applying relevant innovation pragmatically to improve the accessibility, personalisation, effectiveness and scalability of learning across Sysco.

-10% Build strong partnerships with embedded Learning & Development teams and capability leaders across Sysco, including Sales and Operations Learning & Development, connecting enterprise and business learning activity, sharing expertise and solutions and reducing unnecessary duplication. Enable greater leverage of learning capability and investment while recognising and preserving specialist business and functional expertise.

Learning Operations, Partners & Investment

-10% Ensure effective and efficient delivery of global learning through strong operational disciplines, including learning investment, external partner and vendor management, content and resource management and appropriate governance. Build and manage an external partner ecosystem that provides access to specialist expertise and enables Sysco to scale learning solutions effectively.

-10% Define and apply approaches to evaluate learning effectiveness and capability impact, using data, colleague and business insight to understand what is working, continuously improve solutions and inform future learning priorities and investment. Partner with Talent & Leadership and business stakeholders to connect learning outcomes to broader capability, performance and enterprise outcomes.

Education Required:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant professional experience in Learning & Development, Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, Education, Business or a related discipline.

Education Preferred:

Advanced degree or relevant postgraduate qualification in Learning & Development, Human Resources, Organisational