Director, Learning Strategy

The Home Depot • Atlanta, DE

2d

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: The Director of Learning Strategy provides oversight and strategic direction for learning initiatives across the enterprise. Serving as the primary point of accountability for learning outcomes, this role ensures that training investments are aligned with business-critical goals. The Director focuses on directing the intake process and prioritizing the pipeline of work from cross-functional business partners to ensure resources are deployed against the highest-impact opportunities. As a leader of people and projects, the Director manages a dedicated team of learning professionals, driving performance and ensuring the strategic execution of the team’s roadmap. Beyond their direct reports, the Director serves as a key partner across the L&D ecosystem, coordinates extensively with the Design and Development teams to build high-impact solutions and aligns closely with the Execution team to ensure seamless delivery. As a strategic partner, they work with field and functional leaders to align learning objectives with overarching business goals, ensuring that curricula for key leadership and specialized roles are both relevant and scalable. Role typically requires a maximum of 20% travel.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• 8 years of work experience
• Organization Development / Organization Effectiveness Consulting is highly desirable
• Ability to manage across the organization / Ability to influence others
• Strategic planning
• Understanding of Adult Principles of learning
• Excellent communications & presentation skills
• Supervisory / Management Experience

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Ability to draw accurate conclusions from financial documentation
• Ability to negotiate, handle complaints, settle disputes, and resolve grievances with both internal and external customers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills in team management (including line management experience), project management and interacting with all levels of the organization; Confident in interactions with senior leadership team
• Proven ability to lead and manage change (process and technology) across a global organization
• Self motivated, able to work with little or no supervision, demonstrates initiative, tenacity, adaptability, teamwork, maturity under pressure, and anticipates and resolves problems before they develop
• Customer service orientation, proven history of relationships with customers and partners
• 5+ years of previous leadership experience

Responsibilities

• Working with cross functional partners on curriculum development and strategic planning
• Partnering with various functional and field business partners to execute their training needs
• Analyzing various reports and identifying needs or opportunities
• Working with Stakeholders on rollout of training materials or curricula
• Tracking results to evaluate the financial impact and business results of training
• Strategic planning by using various reports
• Responsible for appropriate selection, termination, performance appraisal, and professional development of assigned staff.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager