Director, Talent Strategy & Development

Landis+Gyr; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Life insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Tuition reimbursement

Pet insurance

Job summary

Landis+Gyr is seeking a Director of Talent Management & Development to lead an integrated enterprise strategy for talent management, employee development, and organizational capability. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this role will ensure the company has the talent and leadership to execute strategy and fuel growth.

This hands-on leader will design and implement core talent and learning practices, build a lean team, and partner across the organization to translate insights into actions

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, Psychology, Education, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience across Talent Management, Learning & Development, Organizational Development, or related disciplines.
• Meaningful experience in both Talent Management and enterprise Learning & Development, with clear depth in at least one discipline and demonstrated accountability across the other.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing an enterprise learning or capability-building strategy.
• Experience designing and implementing development solutions for multiple employee populations, including professional, functional, managerial, and leadership audiences.
• Strong understanding of adult learning, experiential development, curriculum architecture, program design, and learning evaluation.
• Experience partnering with senior executives and facilitating consequential talent discussions.
• Demonstrated ability to build new practices, programs, and operating models in an evolving organization.
• Strong project leadership, facilitation, consulting, communication, and change-management capabilities.
• Ability to use talent and learning data to identify needs, establish priorities, and evaluate results.
• Experience working in a global, matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement an integrated enterprise talent and learning strategy aligned with business priorities, future capability requirements, and the company’s evolving operating model.
• Build a connected talent framework that brings together performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, career development, internal mobility, workforce planning, and learning.
• Lead enterprise talent reviews, calibration, and succession planning for critical leadership and business-critical roles, creating greater visibility into talent strength, successor readiness, capability gaps, retention risk, and organizational exposure.
• Partner with senior leaders and HR Business Partners to translate talent insights into meaningful actions, including development, movement, retention, knowledge transfer, and selective external hiring.
• Build and implement an enterprise learning strategy addressing professional, functional, technical, managerial, leadership, and future-skill development across the organization.
• Establish a disciplined approach to identifying capability needs and converting them into prioritized learning roadmaps, curricula, development pathways, academies, and targeted interventions.
• Partner with functional leaders and subject-matter experts to develop scalable learning solutions while maintaining clear business ownership for technical and functional capability.
• Lead the evolution of performance management and strengthen manager capability in goal setting, feedback, coaching, development planning, talent differentiation, and performance accountability.
• Build career-development and internal-mobility practices that give employees greater visibility into growth opportunities, required capabilities, and potential career paths across the organization.
• Define the leadership and management capabilities required for future success and build targeted development solutions for new managers, experienced people leaders, directors, senior leaders, and succession candidates.
• Establish talent and learning measures that provide leaders with actionable insight into succession strength, internal movement, capability development, program effectiveness, and workforce readiness.
• Lead the implementation and continuous improvement of talent and learning technologies, content, external partnerships, and investments, ensuring resources are directed toward the company’s most important capability priorities.
• Build commitment and accountability among leaders for developing talent, strengthening capability, and applying learning in the workplace.

Skills

Talent Management

Learning & Development

Organizational Development

Succession Planning

People Leadership

Change Management

Data-driven decision making

Global / matrixed environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, Psychology, Education, or a related field

Job description

Landis+Gyr is seeking a Director of Talent Management & Development to lead an integrated enterprise strategy for talent management, employee development, and organizational capability. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this role will ensure the company has the talent and leadership to execute strategy and fuel growth.

This hands-on leader will design and implement core talent and learning practices, build a lean team, and partner across the organization to translate insights into actions