Director, Strategic Learning & Capability Building

Dematic; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 141,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career Development

Competitive Compensation and Benefits

Pay Transparency

Global Opportunities

Job summary

Dematic seeks a Director, Learning & Strategic Capability Building to translate business strategy into a multi-year capability roadmap, skills architecture, and targeted learning investments. You will design, build, deliver, and measure multi-modal learning sequences across the enterprise.

You will lead a team, partner with IT and operating units, and ensure learning initiatives drive measurable business outcomes while embedding future skills into daily work and talent practices.

Qualifications

• Significant learning, capability building or organisational development experience in a complex multinational organisation spanning strategy, design, build and delivery.
• Track record of translating strategy into enterprise capability frameworks, learning portfolios and sustained business adoption.
• Experience leading enterprise reskilling and creating engaging learning across facilitated, digital, blended and workplace-based modalities.
• Strong command of workforce data, learning analytics and evidence-based investment cases.
• Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed, multi-country environment.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Business-level English and willingness to travel internationally.
• Experience in industrial, manufacturing, engineering, logistics or supply-chain environments.
• Familiarity with skills-based organisation models, talent practices and learning technology, including LXP, skills platforms and AI-enabled learning.
• Experience working across EMEA, APAC and North American business contexts.
• Postgraduate qualification or professional certification in organisational psychology, human resources, learning and development, or workforce analytics.

Responsibilities

• Translate KION's strategy into a capability roadmap, defining the skills to build, sustain or retire.
• Shape the enterprise skills taxonomy and capability frameworks that provide a common language across operating units, regions and functions.
• Use workforce data and external market signals to forecast future skills, identify gaps and prioritise investments.
• Define learning pathways and lead priority programs from concept through design, build, launch and delivery.
• Create practical, accessible solutions across facilitated, digital, social, experiential, on-the-job and blended modalities.
• Embed skills through manager enablement, practice, performance support, communities of practice and integration with talent rhythms.
• Own enterprise reskilling for AI and digital ways of working from baseline fluency to role-specific capability.
• Partner with IT, Learning Partners and operating units to align learning with technology and processes.
• Measure proficiency, application, behaviour change and business outcomes to improve programs.
• Lead and develop a specialist team across skills intelligence, learning architecture and digital capability.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across operating units to align capability priorities.
• Role model the KION Winning Behaviors, including Embrace Curiosity and Lead with Innovation.

Skills

Capability building

Learning strategy

Multinational experience

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Postgraduate qualification or professional certification in organisational psychology, HR, learning & development, or workforce analytics

Tools

LXP

Skills platforms

AI-enabled learning

Job description

Dematic seeks a Director, Learning & Strategic Capability Building to translate business strategy into a multi-year capability roadmap, skills architecture, and targeted learning investments. You will design, build, deliver, and measure multi-modal learning sequences across the enterprise.

You will lead a team, partner with IT and operating units, and ensure learning initiatives drive measurable business outcomes while embedding future skills into daily work and talent practices.