Director of Learning & Talent Development

OakworthTalent•Birmingham, AL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Director of Learning & Talent Development leads learning and development across all Oakworth Capital Bank markets. The role combines enterprise learning strategy with hands-on execution and partners with Talent/HR associates, the Leadership Team, business leaders, subject-matter experts, facilitators, and external resources. The Director establishes the organization’s learning and development strategy and builds the infrastructure, processes, tools, programs, and partnerships needed to carry it out and sustain it. The Director owns the full learning lifecycle: assessing needs; setting priorities; designing, developing, and delivering learning; maintaining programs and resources; measuring outcomes; and continuously improving solutions. Learning priorities are aligned with business goals, culture, talent strategy, and future capability needs. The role also connects learning and career development to leadership capability, talent reviews, succession planning, and organizational growth. The Director leads and advances organization-wide initiatives such as onboarding, the Associate Development Program, Oakworth University, mentoring, leadership development, role-based learning paths, and career development resources. The position also administers and optimizes the Learning Management System and related platforms, develops competency models, supports training for new markets, and ensures associates and leaders can readily access learning opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in learning and development, organizational development, human resources, education, business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
Five or more years of progressive learning and development experience, including success building or scaling an organization-wide learning infrastructure.
Ability to serve as both an enterprise strategist and hands-on executor, from assessing needs and setting direction through developing, delivering, administering, and improving learning solutions.
Experience building role-based learning paths, career development frameworks, leadership development programs, and development strategies connected to succession and talent reviews.
Strong knowledge of adult learning, instructional design, facilitation, blended learning, content development, and learning evaluation.
Ability to translate business and performance needs into practical learning solutions and measure adoption, effectiveness, behavior change, and business impact.
Experience administering or optimizing a Learning Management System and managing learning programs and projects from planning through continuous improvement.
Excellent communication, facilitation, consulting, relationship-building, and influencing skills, including the ability to engage leaders at all levels and manage multiple priorities.
Ability to demonstrate Oakworth Core Values: Golden Rule, Character, Innovative Spirit, Professionalism, and Work Ethic.

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services or another regulated, multi-market professional services environment.
Certified Professional in Talent Development (CPTD) credential.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute an organization-wide learning and development strategy aligned with business priorities, culture, talent strategy, and future capability needs.
Build, own, and continuously improve the infrastructure, standards, tools, and operating rhythms for identifying, prioritizing, developing, delivering, maintaining, and measuring learning.
Conduct regular organization-wide learning needs assessments and identify current and future capability gaps with leaders, Talent/HR, and subject-matter experts.
Translate learning needs into priorities, objectives, roadmaps, and scalable solutions for onboarding, role proficiency, performance, advancement, and organizational growth.
Design and maintain role-based learning paths and career development resources that support associate proficiency, career progression, and preparation for future opportunities.
Evaluate leadership development offerings, identify gaps, and build an integrated roadmap for emerging, people-leader, and senior-leader levels.
Advance mentoring and coaching strategies to support individual development, leadership capability, knowledge transfer, career progression, and succession readiness.
Connect learning priorities to succession planning and talent review outcomes through development strategies for successors, high-potential associates, and critical talent pools.
Lead the design, development, delivery, implementation, and evaluation of blended learning, including instructor-led, virtual, and e-learning programs, multimedia, job aids, learning guides, and train-the-trainer experiences.
Own and advance development programs, including the Associate Development Program, onboarding, Oakworth University, mentoring, leadership development, and other organization-wide initiatives.
Partner with leaders and Talent/HR to strengthen accountability for coaching, associate development, knowledge transfer, and application of learning on the job.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep role- and team-specific training effective, current, accessible, and supported by documentation and internal expertise.
Lead learning and development activities for expansion into new markets, including applicable components of the New Market Playbook.
Implement, administer, and optimize the Learning Management System and related platforms to improve access, assignments, tracking, reporting, content maintenance, and the associate learning experience.
Develop and maintain competency models for organizational levels and critical roles to inform learning paths, leadership development, career progression, and succession planning.
Establish measures of participation, knowledge and capability growth, behavior change, business impact, scalability, and sustainability; use data and feedback to improve solutions.
Develop and maintain communications and centralized learning resources so associates and leaders can understand, access, and use development opportunities.
Stay current on adult learning, instructional design, learning technology, leadership and career development, and relevant financial-services trends; recommend practices suited to Oakworth.
Personally develop content, facilitate learning, administer systems, manage projects, and execute priority initiatives while leveraging internal and external partners as appropriate.