Senior Director, Talent Management

Herc Rentals; Palmesta (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life and disability insurance

401(k) match

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Paid time off

Parental leave

Military leave

Tuition reimbursement

EAP

Insurance discounts

Job summary

Herc Rentals is seeking a senior leader to define and drive the enterprise talent management and leadership development strategy across North America. You will partner with senior leaders to implement scalable programs that ensure a strong leadership bench, alignment with business goals, and measurable outcomes.

The role focuses on succession planning, leadership development, data-driven insights, and integrating AI-enabled transformation into people strategies. Location is in the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management, Business, Organizational Development, or related field; MBA preferred.
• 10 years of enterprise-level talent management/people & culture strategy experience.
• Proven ability to manage talent management frameworks, systems, and leadership development programs.
• Strong track record in organization design, leadership succession strategies, and development initiatives.
• Experience bringing modern learning strategies and AI/digital concepts to life in a large organization.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to shaping the People & Culture strategy as a Talent Leadership Team member.
• Own and operationalize enterprise talent management framework and processes (talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development).
• Translate business strategy into talent management priorities and measurable outcomes with cross-functional partners.
• Improve use of workforce data; support internal mobility and internal talent visibility.
• Develop internal talent by creating career pathways and priority experiences; strengthen bench strength.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive influence

Enterprise leadership

Change leadership

Data & insights

AI literacy

Curriculum design

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR/Business/OD

MBA preferred

Job description

Founded in 1965, Herc Rentals is one of the leading equipment rental suppliers in North America with 2025 total revenues reaching approximately $4.4 billion. Herc Rentals’ parent company, known as Herc Holdings Inc., listed on the New York Stock Exchange on July 1, 2016, under the symbol “HRI.” Herc Rentals serves customers through approximately 607 locations and has about 10,000 employees in North America as of June 30, 2026.

Job Purpose

This role designs, operationalizes, and continuously evolves Herc Rentals' enterprise talent management and leadership development strategy, ensuring a strong, future-ready leadership pipeline. This is an opportunity to define and execute the next stage of the company’s Talent Management strategy and approach, creating practical, scalable, measurable solutions that meet today's business needs while preparing leaders for tomorrow's challenges. As Herc grows across North America expanding our branch network, integrating acquisitions, and scaling field operations in a safety-critical, customer-facing industry this role builds the leadership bench needed to sustain operational excellence, customer focus, and profitable growth.

Serving as strategic advisor and execution partner to senior leaders and field Human Resources, the role is accountable for setting direction, driving adoption, governing, enabling leaders, and delivering measurable results across the enterprise. Working closely with Talent Acquisition & Internal Mobility, Field Operations Learning & Development, field Human Resources and senior business leaders, this role ensures a consistent leadership philosophy, shared tools, disciplined execution, and clear ownership of talent management across the people and culture ecosystem. Programs are designed to reflect the realities of networked branch and district operations while maintaining enterprise standards, and to help leaders and teams confidently adopt enterprise talent management processes and practices.

What you will do...

• Contribute as a member of the Talent Leadership Team, partnering with colleagues to shape the direction, priorities and effectiveness of the company’s People & Culture strategy
• Own and operationalize the enterprise talent management framework and key processes including talent reviews, high-potential identification, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Partner with Sales, Operations, and field Human Resources to translate business strategy into clear talent management priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
• Improve the quality and use of workforce and talent information, build talent from within and support adoption of consistent talent management approaches enterprise wide
• Enable development from within by increasing talent visibility, career pathways, priority experiences and leadership readiness, helping the business build capability and create opportunities for people to grow and develop

Leadership Development & Program Execution

• Design, launch, and oversee leadership development programs across all levels, from front-line managers to senior leadership.
• Ensure leadership experiences are practical, experience-based, performance-oriented, and tied to business outcomes.
• Continue the build-out and implementation of a leadership development framework and ecosystem that enables leaders to continuously develop leadership skills while also addressing the need to strengthen the bench of future, high potential leaders.

Succession Planning & Executive Development

• Lead enterprise succession planning for field operations, enabling the identification and development of future field leaders
• Facilitate succession reviews with senior leaders, ensuring disciplined follow-through and accountability for closing readiness gaps.
• Support executive development and coaching aligned to readiness gaps, including building executive sponsorship credibility for AI-enabled transformation.

Assessment, Data & Insight Application

• Leverage assessments and talent analytics to inform decisions while reinforcing leadership accountability and judgment.
• Track metrics for leadership effectiveness, bench strength, pipeline health, and AI/digital capability maturity.
• Translate insights into concrete development, succession, and training actions, including targeted AI interventions where gaps are identified.
• Reinforce leadership expectations and cultural priorities through consistent systems, messaging, and behaviors.
• Enable leaders to navigate growth, transformation, acquisitions, and AI-driven change through practical capability building and structured change support.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field; MBA degree preferred.
• 10 years of experience leading at an enterprise level talent management and/or people and culture strategy for a geographically dispersed, branch or store-based business preferred.
• Proven ability and expertise in managing and guiding talent management frameworks, systems, and leadership development programs.
• Strong track record in organization design, including leadership succession strategies and approaches, and leadership development initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience in bringing modern learning strategies and future-of-work concepts to life within a large organization, while astutely meeting the organization where they are today.
• Exceptional stakeholder management capabilities coupled with a cooperative and highly communicative working style.
• Preferred experience in distributed, branch-based, or field-operations-focused environments (e.g., rental, distribution, transportation, logistics, industrial services, construction).

Skills

• Strategic thinking and executive influence
• Business acumen and project management
• Enterprise leadership development and succession planning
• Change leadership and organizational effectiveness
• Data and insights expertise; data-informed decision making; measurement and evaluation
• AI literacy and responsible AI leadership, including hands-on familiarity with enterprise AI/digital tools and the ability to translate technical capability into practical, role-based training
• Instructional design and curriculum development for adult learners in blended (live, digital, on-demand) formats
• Stakeholder partnership across corporate, field, and technology/IT environments

Pay Range:Based on qualifications.

Please be advised that the actual salary offered for any position is subject to the company's sole discretion and may be influenced by various factors, including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, location, and overall fit for the role.

Herc Rentals values its employees and provides excellent compensation and benefits packages which are not limited to the following.

Keeping you healthy

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Flex spending and health savings accounts
• Virtual Health Visits
• 24 Hour Nurse Line
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

Life & Work Harmony

• Paid Time Off (Holidays, Vacations, Sick Days)
• Paid parental leave.
• Military leave & support for those in the National Guard and Reserves
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Adoption Assistance Reimbursement Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Auto & Home Insurance Discounts

Protecting You & Your Family

• Company Paid Life Insurance
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Company Paid Disability Insurance
• Supplemental Disability Insurance
• Group Legal Plan
• Critical Illness Insurance

Herc does not discriminate in employment based on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, disability, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, political affiliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factors.