The Requirements
The ideal candidate for the role of Director, Talent Development will combine a strong background in organizational development and talent management with a broad and progressive career history leading to the strategic insight and tactical tools necessary to building a comprehensive employee development program that meets employee needs and organizational objectives. As long as you have strong OD and TM skills, industry experience is not necessary.To meet the basic qualification for this role you must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. To be a strong fit for the role you will also have:
- 7 - 10 years of progressive organizational development and talent management experience Quick question for you - click here
- The ability to understand business goals and recommend new training approaches and curriculum to support the needs of the organization
- Experience developing customized learning and development experiences, with a focus on leadership for a business audience
- Experience managing a Learning Management System (LMS; Cornerstone OnDemand preferred) as well as managing a network of vendors to bring a robust suite of training curriculum to the organization
- Ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment with multiple priorities that need to be effectively managed, while maintaining composure and flexibility
- Demonstrated project management and change management skills with the ability to drive programs independently
- A highly collaborative approach with strong interpersonal skills to successfully work across the organization; strong business acumen
- Highly develop communication skills
- The ability to build strong relationships at all levels of the organization
- A bachelor’s degree with emphasis in Human Resources or other directly relevant area, or the equivalent years of field related experience; related certification(s) or a master's degree is a plus Quick question for you - click here
- Willingness to travel up to 20%
The Role
High-reaching MissionReporting to the Vice President, HR Business Partners, as Director, Talent Development, your high-level mission will be to manage and support the assessment of organizational needs and the overall design, implementation and evaluation of programs that facilitate the professional development, engagement and continuous learning of team members across the organization.
In order to meet the goals of your mission and organizational objectives, you will collaborate with business leaders and HR business partners to identify and action plan solutions to talent needs, ensuring a strong curriculum that will build engagement at all levels of the organization. Quick question for you - click here While you’ll create the program, you won’t be expected to build the curriculum. Instead, you’ll suggest and implement best-in-class external resources to deliver content through the LMS and other mediums.
A Mix of Strategic Vision and Hands-on Execution
Initially, you will focus on providing tools from the VP level to mid-level managers. Over time, you will also focus on career pathing for entry-level staff and could eventually create programs for senior executives. You will be building a function from the ground up, but you won't be building and executing the curriculum yourself. Instead, you will leverage external resources, such as Learn It Systems, strategically manage vendors, serve a peer and guide for trainers, and act as a change manager when needed. Quick question for you - click here You will build the Digital Realty OD & TM playbook.
With the addition of Telx, there is a tremendous amount of integration under way (for example, we're just implementing a new LMS system) and change is a constant. Your ability to use the fundamentals of change management processes to gain buy-in will be key.
More specifically, in the following areas you will:
Learning & Development Strategy:
- Partner with HR Business Partner team and company business leaders to identify learning & development needs and design appropriate strategies to address leadership, managerial and overall professional development
- Work with field Training Directors to execute implementation of courses, program and curriculum to accomplish specific business objectives including:
- Talent development
- Emerging leaders
- Employee engagement
- Develop strategy, process and tools to drive effective and actionable development planning for all employees
- Develop and facilitate implementation of change management initiatives associated with organizational transition activities; in partnership with the HR Business Partner team
- Conduct Gap analysis in response to identify the best approach to filling the needs of the business
- Identify training opportunities, programs and tools to support business needs of the teams
- Drive ongoing learning needs analysis, design, development, assessment, implementation, communication and evaluation of training programs to ensure alignment with business strategies
- Redesign, customize, and enhance existing programs to build managerial and employee skills and competencies
- Track all training and development programs against relevant schedule, budget and learning objectives Quick question for you - click here
- Monitor and track training results and effectiveness of established goals for the learner
- Maintain training records and develop status reports on a regular basis
- Research new training techniques to promote overall enhancements to existing training programs
- Develop, maintain, and oversee vendor relationships including logistics, content development, delivery, and e-technology
Why Digital Realty
Ground-floor OpportunityThis is a unique opportunity to join a strong, rapidly growing organization with a global footprint and serve as a key member of a highly strategic HR team. The Director, Talent Development is an exciting role where you will bring your creative ideas and work with a blank slate. Of course, you won't be alone. You'll have the ideas, knowledge and insight of our senior HR leaders to light your way. And because this is a new initiative and we have no program in place currently, every step you take can be a win!
Visibility and Impact
You will begin building what we anticipate will be a center of excellence for our organization. You will develop the playbook and mold it to our organization, making a strong impact company-wide. Senior leaders from HR up to the CEO are behind this initiative, meaning you'll enjoy visibility and your successes will be noticed.
Strategic Insight; Career Development
You will not only have the opportunity to make an impact early on, you will gain deep insight into the thoughts of our leaders and fully understand the strategy and design of the company, our growth initiatives and long-range goals. Success in this role will put you in a prime position to advance, further developing your career as the company grows.
Professional Development
While this is a fun and creative role, it’s also one you will need to unpack as you delve into it more deeply. You are bound to find areas where you can further develop and grow your skills, enhancing your foundation of HR and business knowledge, as well as polishing your professional skills.
Exciting Time to Join
With the acquisition of Telx, Digital Realty adds robust colocation, strategic network dense connectivity, a vast and open partner ecosystem and unmatched freedom of choice to one of the world's largest data center footprints. As we integrate processes and teams from the two companies, you will be in a prime position to make your mark.
The "Best of Both Worlds"
You'll find that working for our company may be a little bit different. We are small enough, with only 1300 employees across our global portfolio, that your hard work will be visible throughout the organization, yet our extensive offering of services and solutions and proven track record of growth; stability and industry-leading innovation give you the resources and tools you need to take your career to the next level.
Unique Culture
We are a collaborative, people-focused company dedicated to quality and continuous improvement. When you become a member of our team, you receive our commitment to your continued development and support. As you support those in your client group, we will also support you.
Strong Foundation
Our financial strength and stability provide our customers with the assurance that Digital Realty and Telx will be their partner for current data center needs and those in the future, and our investment credit ratings provide us access to paths for more capital. We view each of our customers as a long-term partner.
Green Standard for Sustainability
We are committed to improving the performance and energy efficiency of our data centers through the creation, adoption and promotion of industry-leading best data center practices and experience. We are pioneers in thinking about green data centers and are also a Contributing Member of The Green Grid.
Excellent Compensation
In addition to a competitive compensation and bonus opportunity, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes all you would expect plus some pleasant surprises, like multiple flexible spending plans, a generous company match on the 401(k) plan, and much more.
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Keys to Success
To build a strong program, you'll need to have mastery of learning theory, various models and methodologies, and the many current resources, but you also will need to move at the speed of business -- an academic pace won't work here. A diverse background will be an advantage, as you will work with a variety of constituents, from executives to mid-level managers. To excel in this role you will have a knack for putting yourself in others' shoes, seeing their point of view and understanding what is important to them, and then leveraging that insight to drive results. In other words, you will hear what the team members you interact with are saying and build a program that will serve their needs, and meet established quarterly objectives.Success will be measured by your ability to:
- Build a plan: articulate your ability to create a program from the ground up
- Convey strategic vision: understand what will work and convey your ideas
- Create the structure: including building a proposal of what we have and what is needed
- Execute the plan: leveraging tools and technologies, such as the new LMS system being implemented in October
- Play a critical role in the first day / first week / first month assimilation: build onboarding training to support corporate and hiring manager needs
- Build a performance review process: identify high performers and low performers and develop talent plans for both
- Take ownership of your role: know that OD is the process, but the key is people development
- Build relationships: learn and leverage key contacts
About Digital Realty
Globally delivering the Right Workload, in the Right Place, at the Right Value.℠Digital Realty Trust, Inc. supports the data center and colocation strategies of more than 600 firms across its secure, network-rich portfolio of data centers located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Digital Realty's clients include domestic and international companies of all sizes, ranging from financial services, cloud and information technology services, to manufacturing, energy, gaming, life sciences and consumer products.
Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.
Digital Realty offers a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions.
Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled
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