Director, Talent Development

Indigo Books & Music•Toronto, ON

3d•CA$125,000 - CA$170,000

About The Position

The Director, Talent Development is responsible for defining and implementing Indigo’s talent development philosophy, roadmap, and execution strategy—enabling the organization to build the capabilities, leadership strength, and performance culture required to achieve its business objectives. This role ensures the effectiveness, scalability, and integration of all talent development processes and practices, including the learning process performance process, potential process, succession process, and career planning process, across Home Office, Retail, and Distribution Centre teams. The Director will be a key driver of Indigo’s evolution into a high-performance, growth-oriented organization where employees are equipped to develop their capabilities, navigate their careers, and contribute meaningfully to business outcomes.

Requirements

10-15 years of progressive experience in learning, talent development, or talent management at a Tier 1 organization
University degree in Human Resources, Education, Organizational Development, or related field
Deep understanding of leading enterprise-wide adult learning and instructional design, with experience building customized learning curricula for frontline, corporate, and leadership audiences
Deep experience with performance & potential management, succession planning, leadership development
Data-driven mindset with ability to turn insights into action and drive measurable outcomes
Demonstrates creative thinking and resilience
Full alignment with Indigo values as reflected in the Guiding Principles statements
A passion for Indigo’s mission

Responsibilities

Participates as a senior HR leader in shaping Indigo’s people and capability strategy, ensuring talent development directly advances business performance, growth, and customer outcomes.
Partners with senior leaders to identify capability gaps, critical roles, and future talent needs, translating these into targeted, enterprise-level development strategies.
Defines and continuously evolves Indigo’s talent development philosophy, ensuring alignment with business strategy, workforce needs, and future capability requirements.
Develops and delivers a multi-year talent development roadmap with clear annual priorities covering learning, leadership development, performance enablement, succession, and career development.
Builds and leads a high-performing Talent Development team, setting clear standards for delivery, accountability, and impact.
Advances Indigo’s learning ecosystem (Indigo U, LMS/LXP platforms), ensuring it is scalable, user-friendly, data-informed, and aligned to employee-driven growth and career development.
Designs, amends and embeds key HR Talent Development processes: Learning & Development, Performance, Potential, Succession and Career Planning
Establishes clear success measures and uses talent and learning analytics to assess effectiveness, inform decisions, and continuously improve outcomes.
Leads adoption of talent practices, including change management and leader enablement, ensuring strong usage and behavioural impact.
Acts as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, succession, and organizational capability, influencing decisions that strengthen Indigo’s long-term performance.
Maintains strong external awareness of emerging trends in talent, learning, and leadership, ensuring Indigo remains competitive and forward-looking.
Partners with HR and business leaders to identify future-critical skills and roles, informing workforce and succession planning.
Aligns learning and talent priorities to business strategy and future capability needs.
Contributes to annual planning, budgeting, and prioritization across the talent development portfolio.
Leads the design of customized learning experiences and curricula grounded in adult learning principles, with clear goals, practice, and application on the job.
Leads change and adoption efforts when talent practices are introduced or updated.
Shapes and lead execution of initiatives linked to the engagement strategy, including surveys and action planning, onboarding and offboarding feedback.