Director Learning And Development - Supply Chain & Operations

Perdue Farms is a family-owned food and agriculture company now in its second century of growth and innovation. We were founded on trust—a value that carries through everything we do. Perdue Foods is a leader in Premium Proteins and Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top US grain companies.

Summary

We are actively recruiting for a seasoned L&D leader to join our team based at the Perdue Learning University in Salisbury, MD. The Director of Learning and Development formulates, designs, and implements learning strategies and programs to support (supply chain operations) objectives and accelerates capability throughout the function. The Director simultaneously interacts with the functions and key stakeholders and manages multiple complex and high impact projects that have national, long-range organizational reach. This position aligns the efforts with the overall corporate learning strategies and directly manages external contractors and leads initiatives to achieve learning and development goals.

This position is eligible for a relocation package.

Principal And Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinates with HR and Supply Chain/Operations senior leadership and management to define and prioritize capability development
• Designs courses and learning experiences in various modalities including eLearning and instructor-led after performing gap analysis. Measures ROI
• Measures and reports learning analytics
• Acts as a training liaison between supply chain and operations teams
• Aligns efforts with the overall corporate learning objectives
• Conducts gap analysis and develops remediation plan
• Manages portfolio of projects in alignment with strategic functional (Operations) objectives while meeting with key stake holders
• Performs administration of the programs, including COMMS, LMS, Data Analysis
• Facilitates curriculum virtually and in person
• Embeds and formalizes learning for consistency in new hires, onboarding, and various experience and position levels throughout the function
• Selects, manages external contractors and programs

Minimum Education And Experience

Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 8-10+ years of related experience:

Experience should include:

• L & D best practices and technologies. Strong business acumen and broad knowledge of business initiatives and indicators and the use of performance consulting and instructional design technologies as well as progressive "best in class" learning strategies to impact business results. Maintains knowledge of current and future trends in learning technologies/media. Partners with business leadership to build effective learning opportunities for all levels of the organization. Plans and executes projects and manages a portfolio of projects on an ongoing basis.
• 5+ years relevant business experience with leadership experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience with strategic planning and forging alliances. Leadership in strategic planning for corporate learning solutions. Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects for high business impact in multiple languages. Experience building competency models and aligning learning initiatives to model. Knowledge of industry
• 3-5+ years of direct learning and development or organizational development experience
• 5+ years of leading project teams and/or staff of developing projects with broad scope and reach
• Instructional Design experience in e-learning, virtual and in-person environments
• Leadership Development Experience

The ideal candidate will also have the following skills & competencies:

• Builds and maintains relationships with internal and external business partners, including academic institutions, external consortiums and workforce development boards, and other professional organizations.
• Sourcing/selecting training providers/solutions- Sourcing of vendors to meet the needs of the audience; selection of learning resources that meet both the development and cultural needs of learners; negotiates best price. Deploys resources to achieve business objectives.
• Effective in cross-cultural environments and working with internal customers.
• Establishing learning metrics-Build a scorecard for learning effectiveness and capability development by function.
• Coaching for enhanced performance and mentors for career development.
• Budget-Identifying and prioritizing critical components needed to support L & D to establish a budget; monitor progress against budget to ensure balance; teach staff and share budget information.
• Excellent consulting, negotiation, presentation, and customer service skills; able to influence without direct authority.

Experience Preferred

Masters Degree

Environmental Factors And Physical Requirements

• May need to access files, supplies and equipment.
• Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
• Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.
• May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.

Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.