Director of Talent

AFC Companies•Tampa, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

About AFC AFC Transport is a growing transportation and logistics company with operations across the U.S. and an international support team. We're entering a major growth phase and need a strong people leader to help build the structure, leadership bench, training systems, culture, and talent foundation required to scale. This isn't a slow corporate environment. We're building something ambitious, with a strong foundation, expanding fleet, growing logistics operations, and a clear vision for what's next. The Role The Director of Talent will work directly with the CEO and executive team as a strategic advisor on people, leadership, organizational structure, culture, training, hiring, retention, and performance. We're looking for a builder. Someone who knows that people, leadership, culture, and training aren't the "soft" parts of the business — they're major drivers of performance, retention, growth, and company value.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required
10+ years of experience in talent leadership, people operations, HR leadership, organizational development, learning & development, culture building, or a related people function
Proven experience building people systems in a growing company
Strong background in employee development, manager training, leadership coaching, performance management, succession planning, and retention
Experience advising CEOs, founders, executives, or senior leadership on people strategy and organizational development
Experience building or improving company culture in a fast-moving business environment
Experience creating training programs, leadership development programs, onboarding systems, and career path frameworks
Strong understanding of recruiting, hiring process design, employer branding, and talent acquisition strategy
Ability to use data, systems, assessments, AI tools, ATS platforms, and analytics to improve people decisions
Excellent communication, writing, judgment, organization, emotional intelligence, and follow-through

Nice To Haves

Transportation, logistics, supply chain, industrial services, private equity-backed companies, or high-growth founder-led businesses
Driver recruiting, operations recruiting, sales recruiting, or high-volume hiring
Building an employer brand and recruitment marketing strategy from the ground up
Developing leaders in operational, sales, logistics, or multi-location environments
Helping a company scale by improving structure, accountability, training, culture, and leadership depth

Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic people advisor to the CEO and executive team
Design and execute the people strategy required to support AFC's next stage of growth
Partner with leaders to improve organizational structure, role clarity, accountability, communication, and leadership effectiveness
Build and lead people development programs: leadership training, manager training, career paths, succession planning, and employee growth plans
Create training programs for managers, operations teams, sales, logistics, support staff, and future leaders
Define and reinforce AFC's culture, values, leadership principles, and expected behaviors
Lead culture-building initiatives that strengthen ownership, urgency, accountability, teamwork, service, loyalty, and continuous improvement
Build systems for performance management, feedback, coaching, recognition, engagement, and retention
Help leaders identify talent gaps, performance issues, development needs, and future leadership potential
Redesign onboarding so new employees understand AFC's culture, expectations, systems, and how to succeed
Lead recruiting strategy for key leadership, corporate, operations, sales, logistics, driver support, and specialized roles
Build a consistent hiring process using scorecards, structured interviews, assessments, and clear decision-making standards
Own AFC's employer brand and recruitment marketing strategy
Develop campaigns, content, employee stories, social media strategy, and candidate messaging that show why AFC is a great place to build a career
Track talent, culture, training, and people KPIs (retention, turnover, engagement, quality of hire, leadership bench strength, training completion, internal promotions, performance trends, employee satisfaction)