Director of Learning and Development

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>Who We Are:<br></strong>Challenge Manufacturing’s mission is to manufacture with operational excellence by empowering our employee-owners. As a leading tier 1 supplier of complex metal assemblies for the global automotive industry, we drive innovative solutions for future mobility. We believe the best ideas come from individual unique perspectives. These ideas combined with the teamwork of industry leaders allow us to accomplish any challenge. Our team members take pride in the work we do and embody our core values of safety, ownership, and teamwork every day; they are the true driving force in our operations.</p> <p>Challenge is proud to be one of the largest employee-owned automotive companies in North America. One of the many benefits of joining the Challenge team is the ESOP program. This program allows Challenge to give shares of the Company to all employee-owners annually. These shares are an additional retirement benefit that will continue to grow during your time at Challenge. Being part of an ESOP means our employee-owners share in Challenge’s success!</p> <p>Challenge is <em>#QualityDriven and #PeoplePowered!</em></p></div><p><strong>Who We Want:</strong></p> <p>Reporting to the Vice President of Human Resources, the Director of Learning and Development will create innovative, enduring workforce development solutions to meet the organizations’ talent-related business challenges and help our team members advance their skillsets, knowledge, and capabilities. Human-centered design thinker that creates environments that drive personal and business success utilizing expert-level data analytics, performance management initiatives, create engagement, as well as talent development strategies.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Demonstrated experience navigating a fast paced, dynamic working environment</li> <li>Demonstrated project management experience with multiple stakeholders prioritizing and delegating projects/tasks</li> <li>Demonstrated team leadership, partnership, influencing and communication experience</li> <li>Conduct assessments and analyses to define performance, skill and knowledge gaps and recommend training and development to drive individual and company-wide capability and performance improvement</li> <li>Responsible for training logistics and data integrity within the Learning Management System (LMS). Conducts annual needs assessment by administering surveys, focus groups, one-on-one interviews. Reviews outcomes to develop leadership and learning curriculum for the coming year. Establishes operational and performance tools and metrics to measure and support learning and development initiatives and programs, drives priorities and measures outcomes and efficacy</li> <li>Knowledge of statistical analysis (e.g., descriptive statistics and knowledge of statistical significance), quantitative research, and experience gathering and interpreting data</li> <li>Provides oversight to the Learning and Development team by supervising, guiding, and directing employees to optimize output and team collaboration. Ensures that all team members are equipped with the right skills, tools, and talents necessary for executing their objectives. Using the established people processes (performance, development, succession, and career) to ensure that their team’s level of performance and capabilities meet current and future standards. Influences and effectively communicates to key stakeholders on the progress of programs, program budgets and design in a timely manner</li> <li>Identifies organization-wide and business-specific learning and development needs through needs assessment; develops and implements strategic initiatives and solutions by creating, leading, and growing a world-class learning and development program.</li> <li>Ensures all learning and development programs and processes incorporate company policies and values while supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion. ... (truncated, view full listing at source)