Director, Global Learning & Development

Celanese is a Fortune 500 global chemical innovation company that engineers and manufactures chemicals used in products essential to everyday living. Headquartered in Dallas, TX, we employ over 7,700 dedicated people working between 43 facilities across 18 countries. We are committed to employee growth and creating shareholder value to ensure continued opportunities make a difference. Our company focuses on the safety of its employees, provides competitive compensation (including benefits starting day 1), and emphasizes giving back to the community. For more information about Celanese and our products please visit www.celanese.com

As a senior member of the Global Talent Management team, the Director, Global Learning and Development leader will be responsible for designing and enabling Celanese's global learning and development philosophy and strategy. Leveraging experience in a high growth, fast-paced environment, this individual will lead a team of learning and development professionals to build and deploy high-impact, scalable solutions that support the growth and development of our talent at all levels of the organization in alignment with business objectives. In this highly collaborative role, this leader will partner with peers in the Talent Management center of excellence as well as business leaders and HRBPs to understand the needs of the organization and enable solutions that meet the needs of the organization and advance talent global management priorities.

Set and lead the global development strategy

• Work with cross functional partners such as business leaders, HRBPs, DE&I, Communications, and Talent Management peers to identify and understand talent development priorities for the organization
• Design, communicate and execute a global learning and development strategy and roadmap that develops the skills, competencies and capabilities needed for future success
• Direct both internal and external resources to support the build and delivery of compelling learning programs and initiatives, ensuring both regional adaptability and scalability
• Set and manage the global development budget including identifying needed investments in resources or vendor partnerships and contracts
• Assess leading practices in the marketplace around talent programs, finding opportunities to adapt and integrate these practices to meet the needs of the business
• Define and measure key metrics and leverage qualitative feedback to optimize programs and report out on the impact and efficacy of initiatives
  
  
  

Evolve the learning model

• Advance the learning model for the organization including governance, standards and ways of working in alignment with key business stakeholders
• Lead the integration of learning models and systems from acquired businesses
• Partner with IT to implement and improve learning technology solutions that enable our learning and development philosophy and strategy and optimize the learning experience for employees
• Provide learning strategy consultation and expertise to HR business partners and business leaders to address segment or functional learning & development needs
• Foster and enable an ongoing learning and development culture
  
  
  

Create targeted development solutions

• Lead the design, development and implementation of innovative and high impact learning and development solutions that span the employee lifecycle in support of strategic goals and objectives
• Lead the team to create and deploy differentiated learning and development solutions for individual contributors, managers, and executives
• Build and manage tools, including development assessments that enable effective development planning throughout the organization
• Partner with DE&I and Community partners to develop targeted programs that align with organizational priorities
• Own the employee onboarding experience and content ensuring a best-in-class program for new hires
  
  
  

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience including leading Learning and Development teams and initiatives and driving positive change in a fast-paced, matrixed corporate environment.
• Experience supporting global teams preferred.
• Experience supporting multiple business locations in multiple cultures.
• Collaborative works effectively across the organization, bringing together people and ideas to create stronger results.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, effective vendor and client management skills.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a global fast-paced environment.
• Excellent project management skills and experience with proven success.
• Strong attention to detail, systems and processes with a high level of business acumen.