Career Development and Mobility Lead

Accountabilities:

• • Define and lead an enterprise career development, internal mobility, and workforce redeployment strategy that supports employees affected by changing business needs, technology adoption, and evolving work models.
  • Align career and redeployment strategies with workforce planning, organizational design, automation investments, emerging technologies, and changing capability requirements.
  • Build an operating model connecting workforce disruption and skill shifts with job profiles, career levels, talent profiles, learning resources, and internal job opportunities.
  • Partner with HR, business leaders, talent teams, and other stakeholders to identify populations at risk, assess skill gaps, and develop targeted learning and non-learning interventions.
  • Design scalable redeployment pathways using internal learning programs, tuition assistance, career navigation resources, and external nonprofit or workforce-development partnerships.
  • Develop skilled-trades-focused workforce transition strategies based on technical, manufacturing, production, and operational capability requirements.
  • Translate enterprise priorities into multi-year roadmaps, annual objectives, governance processes, and measurable outcomes for reskilling, redeployment, and workforce transitions.
  • Lead and develop a small team of program managers or talent professionals, providing coaching, direction, goal setting, performance management, and career development.
  • Build strong partnerships across Learning & Development, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, People Analytics, HR, Corporate Strategy, and business leadership.
  • Use workforce data, benchmarking, skills insights, and scenario planning to identify emerging trends, anticipate capability needs, and advise senior leaders on complex workforce decisions.
  • Establish and monitor success metrics such as redeployment outcomes, learning-to-skills engagement, internal talent pipeline health, employee experience, and readiness for future roles.
  • Incorporate responsible AI capabilities into career navigation and redeployment programs, including skills analysis, personalized recommendations, and learning access while maintaining appropriate human oversight and governance.
  • Oversee continuous improvement by sharing lessons learned, identifying opportunities to improve mobility and reskilling programs, and strengthening consistency across the organization.

  Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Learning & Development, Business, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related discipline; an advanced degree is a plus.
  • 10+ years of progressive experience delivering career development, workforce transformation, mobility, reskilling, or redeployment strategies.
  • Proven experience developing and executing enterprise career development strategies in response to significant business, technology, or operating-model changes.
  • Demonstrated ability to integrate strategic workforce planning, talent architecture, job architecture, reskilling, and redeployment into cohesive multi-year strategies.
  • Significant experience leading large-scale learning, talent, workforce, or redeployment initiatives with measurable organizational impact.
  • Strong understanding of job architecture, including job families, career levels, leveling frameworks, compensation-related methodologies, and HRIS or talent platforms used to maintain job architecture data.
  • Proven people leadership experience, including managing program managers or similarly scoped professional teams.
  • Deep understanding of skilled-trades capabilities and familiarity with manufacturing, technical, industrial, or operations environments.
  • Strong expertise in skills-gap analysis, workforce planning, data-informed decision-making, and translating complex workforce challenges into practical solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders, align diverse stakeholders, and operate effectively in ambiguous, high-visibility environments.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate strategy, recommendations, and business impact to varied audiences.
  • Experience with internal mobility, career development, workforce transformation, or technology-enabled talent strategies is highly valued.
  • Familiarity with structured learning, mentorship, stretch assignments, career tools, and skills-based career navigation ecosystems is preferred.
  • Experience developing partnerships with nonprofit, academic, or community organizations supporting workforce transitions is a plus.
  • Knowledge of change management, human performance improvement, and continuous improvement methodologies is beneficial.
  • Must be legally eligible to work in the United States without requiring immigration sponsorship now or in the future.
  • Ability to travel occasionally, with travel expected to be less than 25%.

  Benefits:

  • Annual base salary range of $164,400–$251,800 USD, with actual compensation determined by factors including experience, skills, qualifications, geography, and internal considerations.
  • Eligibility to participate in applicable incentive programs.
  • Comprehensive benefits package, including health and retirement-related benefits.
  • Remote work arrangement within the United States, subject to applicable location and business requirements.
  • Opportunities to lead high-impact enterprise workforce transformation and career mobility initiatives.
  • Exposure to senior leaders and cross-functional teams spanning HR, talent, learning, analytics, strategy, and business operations.
  • Opportunity to build and lead a team while shaping long-term career development and workforce sustainability strategies.
  • Work focused on employee growth, internal mobility, reskilling, and preparation for future roles.
  • Inclusive workplace environment designed to support belonging, professional development, and equitable career opportunities.
  • Reasonable accommodations available for qualified candidates with disabilities.