Head of Learning & Leadership Development

OakworthTalent; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Oakworth Capital Bank in Birmingham, AL seeks a Director of Learning & Talent Development to lead the organization’s enterprise learning strategy and hands-on execution across markets. You will build learning infrastructure, design role-based paths, advance leadership development, and connect programs to succession, talent reviews, and business goals.

This role requires a bachelor’s in a relevant field, 5+ years in L&D, and strong facilitation, with LMS experience; CPTD preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in learning and development, organizational development, human resources, education, business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Five or more years of progressive learning and development experience, including success building or scaling an organization-wide learning infrastructure.
• Experience building role-based learning paths, career development frameworks, leadership development programs, and development strategies connected to succession and talent reviews.
• Strong knowledge of adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, blended learning, content development, and learning evaluation.
• Experience administering or optimizing a Learning Management System and managing learning programs and projects from planning through continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage leaders at all levels and manage multiple priorities.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated, multi-market professional services environment is preferred.
• Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) credential is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain an organization-wide learning infrastructure for identifying needs and developing, delivering, maintaining, and measuring effective learning solutions.
• Create and maintain role-based learning paths and career development resources that support proficiency, career progression, and future opportunities.
• Continually advance leadership development by evaluating current offerings, addressing gaps, and expanding solutions across leadership levels.
• Connect learning priorities and development plans to succession planning, talent reviews, and organizational capability needs.
• Serve as both strategist and hands-on executor, partnering with leaders, subject-matter experts, facilitators, and external resources to deliver results.
• Develop and execute an organization-wide learning and development strategy aligned with Oakworth’s business priorities, culture, talent strategy, and future capability needs.
• Build, own, and continuously improve the learning infrastructure, standards, tools, and operating rhythms that define how learning needs are identified, prioritized, developed, delivered, maintained, and measured.
• Conduct organization-wide learning needs assessments and identify current and future capability gaps across roles, teams, markets, and leadership levels.
• Translate identified needs into clear learning priorities, objectives, roadmaps, and scalable solutions that support onboarding, role proficiency, performance advancement, and organizational growth.
• Design, build and maintain role-based learning paths that define the knowledge, skills, capabilities, and development experiences needed for success and progression.
• Create and maintain career development infrastructure that helps associates understand career options, evaluate development needs, build relevant capabilities, and prepare for future opportunities.
• Evaluate Oakworth’s current leadership development offerings, identify gaps and opportunities, and build an integrated roadmap that strengthens leadership capability at emerging, people-leader, and senior-leader levels.
• Advance a structured mentor program and coaching strategies across the organization, to support individual development goals with leadership capability, knowledge transfer, career progression, and succession readiness.
• Connect learning and development priorities to succession planning and talent review outcomes by creating targeted development strategies for successors, high-potential associates, and critical talent pools.
• Lead the design, development, delivery, implementation, and evaluation of blended learning solutions, including instructor-led programs, virtual learning, e-learning, multimedia resources, job aids, learning guides, and train-the-trainer experiences.
• Own and advance the infrastructure of key development programs, including but not limited to the Associate Development Program, onboarding, Oakworth University, mentoring, leadership development, and other organization-wide learning initiatives.
• Partner with leaders and Talent/HR to strengthen leader capability and accountability for coaching, associate development, knowledge transfer, and application of learning on the job.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure role-and-team-specific training is effective, current, accessible, and supported by appropriate documentation and internal expertise.
• Lead learning and development activities associated with expansion into new markets, including execution of applicable components of the New Market Playbook.
• Implement, administer, and optimize the Learning Management System and related platforms to improve access, assignment, tracking, reporting, content maintenance, and the associate learning experience.
• Develop and maintain competency models across the organization levels and critical roles to help define the knowledge, skills, abilities, and behaviors required for success.
• Establish meaningful measures of participation, knowledge and capability growth, behavior change, business impact, scalability, and sustainability; use data and feedback to continuously improve solutions.
• Develop and maintain communications and centralized learning resources so associates and leaders can easily understand, access, and use available development opportunities.
• Remain current on adult learning, instructional design, learning technology, leadership development, career development, and relevant financial services trends; recommend practices appropriate for Oakworth.
• Operate as both strategist and hands-on practitioner by personally developing content, facilitating learning, administering systems, managing projects, and executing priority initiatives while appropriately leveraging internal and external partners.

Skills

Learning & development

Instructional design

Leadership development

Learning Management System

Education

Bachelor’s degree in learning and development, organizational development, HR, education, business, or related field

Job description

Oakworth Capital Bank in Birmingham, AL seeks a Director of Learning & Talent Development to lead the organization’s enterprise learning strategy and hands-on execution across markets. You will build learning infrastructure, design role-based paths, advance leadership development, and connect programs to succession, talent reviews, and business goals.

This role requires a bachelor’s in a relevant field, 5+ years in L&D, and strong facilitation, with LMS experience; CPTD preferred.