Senior Manager - Leadership Development

Penske • Cumru Township, PA

17h • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Leadership Development – Leadership Coaching coaches and develops leaders across Penske through leadership development programs and custom coaching engagements. The position also facilitates intact-team development workshops, manages administrative activities for the coaching practice, and leads continuous-improvement initiatives and projects. The work draws on behavioral methods including transformational leadership, adult development, and the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model to develop individuals and teams and strengthen organizational effectiveness.

The role reports to the Director, Talent & Organizational Development and supports Penske’s coaching practice as well as team and executive development functions. It is based onsite at the Learning Center in Green Hills. The position partners with leaders and stakeholders across the enterprise to assess development needs, design and deliver interventions, evaluate their effectiveness, and keep coaching practices current with industry practices, tools, technology, and AI-enabled applications. Travel may be required as necessary.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 10 years of leadership or executive coaching experience, or an equivalent combination of leadership-development and/or team-development facilitation and coaching experience.
• Professional Certified Coach (PCC) or Associate Certified Coach (ACC) certification, or meaningful progress toward these certifications.
• At least 7 years of experience leading people, teams, and/or programs.
• Experience managing leadership- and team-development projects from diagnosis and design through facilitation and evaluation.
• Deep subject-matter expertise in vertical development and transformational leadership.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and learning technologies.
• Excellent communication, administrative, and project-management skills.
• Strong professional presence and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build enduring relationships across organizational levels.
• Ability to solve problems independently and collaboratively, deliver high-quality results, create clarity in ambiguity, and make progress in complex situations.
• Ability to thrive in a deadline-sensitive environment while balancing urgency with care and connection.
• Motivation to continue developing professionally and to develop others; personal humility, curiosity, and professional will.
• Consistently demonstrate Penske leadership behaviors at the level of leadership sought.
• Safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of organizational and associate information and protect intellectual-property rights.
• Regular, predictable, full attendance.
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule and at the specified location, complete an employment application, and undergo a background investigation and drug screening.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in a related area such as Learning, Leadership, Organizational Development, Education and Human Development, Human Resources, or Industrial/Organizational Psychology.
• Certifications in leadership development, vertical development, organizational development, team development, and related assessments.

Responsibilities

• Lead assessment debriefs and coaching for leadership development programs designed for critical roles, including debriefing psychometric and vertical-development assessments.
• Lead short- and long-term custom individual coaching engagements for high-potential candidates and leaders in critical, Director, and Officer roles.
• Consult with senior leaders to identify development needs for individuals and teams, and partner to design, deliver, and evaluate custom team-development interventions, including group coaching.
• Facilitate leadership development programs and modules in accordance with program designs, fostering dialogue and learning tailored to participants’ needs.
• Manage administrative activities and core processes for the coaching practice, including launching and managing assessments, surveying and evaluating coaching and team-development engagements, and working with external vendors.
• Use data and feedback to lead continuous-improvement projects that strengthen and refresh coaching-practice functions.
• Stay current with industry practices, emerging tools and technology, and AI-enabled applications through ongoing learning.
• Build relationships and collaborate with business partners and subject-matter experts across the enterprise.
• Conduct needs assessments using instructional-design and organizational-development frameworks as appropriate.

What This Job Offers

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