Talent & Leadership Development Specialist (Remote)

Talent & Leadership Development Specialist The Talent & Leadership Development Specialist is responsible for the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of programs that enhance leadership capability, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness. This role plays a critical part in advancing organizational health by creating and delivering impactful leadership development tools and resources. This position requires strategic and analytical thought leadership to identify and address talent development needs, leveraging insights into employee sentiment and engagement across the organization. The specialist partners closely with business leaders to design and execute initiatives that foster a high-performance culture and drive long-term talent retention and growth. Principal duties and responsibilities include conducting ongoing leadership development interviews and conversations around the organization, creating and updating a development calendar for managers and supervisors, producing and updating training materials, identifying gaps in leadership training and providing recommendations to executives, defining role levels, skills, behaviors, and example experiences, creating and maintaining manager and employee guides for development planning and internal mobility, sourcing and managing external facilitators, designing and facilitating monthly learning and leadership touchpoints and quarterly manager roundtables, partnering with department leaders on succession planning conversations and high-potential identification, publishing and managing leadership roadmap, career paths map and calendar, developing leadership development initiatives and regularly reporting outcomes to senior leadership, providing coaching or guidance to managers and high-potential employees on personal development plans, leadership growth, and performance challenges, designing onboarding paths and learning plans specifically for newly promoted or hired managers, and acting as an internal ambassador for professional growth, encouraging employees at all levels to take ownership of their development. Education and experience requirements include a bachelor's degree in Organizational Development, Human Resources, or related field preferred, minimum three years of training and development experience, strong organizational skills with a high level of accuracy and timeliness, excellent interpersonal skills including strong verbal and written communication skills, effective team builder, and ease in interacting with all levels of the organization, ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment while meeting critical deadlines, and proficiency in Microsoft suite of products.