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United Airlines Hiring for Director – Talent Development Job at Chicago, IL Full Time
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Description
There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run “”Business Resource Group”” communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?
United is changing the way we approach Talent Development. This position will have a dual role as they will lead a team of Talent Development Partners to ensure that we have the capabilities and talent to implement United Next as well as be a Talent Development partner to our Corporate Teams. They will partner with HRBP’s to ensure an understanding of the capabilities required for future success, design solutions to meet business needs, and collaborate with learning to ensure that the teams have the required development needed. They will build, lead and deliver solutions that are innovative, accessible to a diverse and virtual workforce, uses existing materials & resources, is scalable for growth, globally relevant, and aligned to strategic objectives.
Responsibilities:
- Global ownership of Talent Planning and Organizational Development – defining philosophy, setting a 3 year strategy creating global HR objectives, market intelligence, change management, communications, and tools
- Lead a team of Talent Development partners that are aligned to HR Managing Directors and business unit leadership. Serves as member of the business unit HR leadership team and is a thought partner to HR teams. Offers solutions across the spectrum of TD and procures specialist TD expertise from centers of expertise when needed. Partner directly business unit leadership and HR partners to drive consistency in the talent agenda including talent review, talent conversations, goal planning and leadership planning
- Works with HR Leadership to gain consensus, and alignment around key talent development areas and transformational work. Designs marketing and change management plans with a top-down approach to program cascade focused on key actions required to transform organization aligned to 3-year roadmap. Partners with HRBPs and Business Leadership to implement program management methodologies and measures to ensure return on investment.
- Lead the identification and development of key strategic capabilities to achieve United growth strategy. Create action plans, design change management strategies, gain executive consensus, org design, and upskilling plans to support the acceleration of identified strategic capabilities.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and HRBPs in the identification of talent opportunities, potential interventions, and then produce global solutions. Represent business/brand perspective in talent conversations.
- Own and drive the TD execution agenda; acts as a hands-on delivery resource leading the execution through HRBPs
- Assures alignment of business unit TD requirements with global strategies. Offers global perspective to the business
- Build the process by which we will identify critical talent to match with critical roles as part of the global talent process
- Leadership and oversight on the creation and delivery of custom education, development and experiential interventions related to diversity, equity, and equity (DE&I) in your business unit. Lead on ensuring successful implementation of all United DE&I educational and training strategies and activities
- Collaborate with HRBPs and other COEs in the design, development, delivery and ongoing management of talent interventions, processes and programs
- Integrates DE&I and EVP (employee experience) practices in all TD activities
Qualifications
- The successful candidate will possess a Bachelor’s Degree plus 8-10 years of experience in talent development and/or organizational development in a Fortune 500 organa ation, ideally firms recognized for excellence in talent development
- At least 5 years of team leadership and development experience. Ideally this person has built out teams for organizations previously
- Shown success designing, implementing and sustaining programs in our key talent development areas
- Significant expertise developing and driving talent planning and organizational design methodologies for large organizations
- Leads with an “outside-in” mentality by keeping a pulse on external market and HR trends
- Previous demonstration of ability to influence executives and gain consensus for key initiatives
- Past success using data to establish return on investment and to create a compelling story to increase adoption
- Ability to build and establish strong relationships in a collaborative environment
Equal Opportunity Employer – Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT