Job Summary
The Director, Leadership, Learning & Growth leads Jabil’s leadership development strategy and creates a connected development experience across leader levels. This role defines the capabilities and experiences leaders need as they grow and ensures development solutions build intentionally from one level to the next.
Leading the Leadership, Learning & Growth COE, this role owns the design and effectiveness of the leadership development portfolio—strengthening what works, simplifying or stopping what does not, and ensuring investments have a clear purpose and measurable value. The Director also brings a future-focused perspective on AI, technology, skills, and new approaches to learning that make development more relevant, personalized, and scalable.
Location
This role will be based on-site at our St. Petersburg, FL Corporate Headquarters.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Leadership Development Strategy & Portfolio
Define the leadership development strategy and framework across leader levels, creating clear pathways that build capability as leaders grow.
Manage the development portfolio as a whole, ensuring each program has a clear purpose, audience, and connection to business and talent needs.
Identify gaps, overlap, and opportunities to simplify, combine, scale, or stop programs based on value and impact.
Connect leadership development to Talent Reviews, Succession, Skills, Assessments, and other Talent priorities.
Identify external market learning trends, compare them to internal development programs and results, and provide data-driven insights to the Talent Management team.
Learning Solutions & Effectiveness
Lead the design and evolution of leadership and learning solutions, setting standards for instructional design, learning experience, and application on the job.
Define clear outcomes and measures for programs and use data, feedback, and talent insights to understand what is working.
Articulate the value and impact of development investments and use evidence to guide future decisions.
Partner with Talent Partners to turn recurring business and capability needs into scalable development solutions.
Future of Learning
Stay ahead of changes in leadership, work, technology, and learning and translate them into practical changes to Jabil’s development approach.
Evolve the learning model as AI changes how employees access content, build skills, practice, and receive support.
Evaluate emerging learning technologies, AI-enabled tools, content, and partners based on the value they create.
Lead the learning portion of AI enablement, partnering across the business and managing relationships with external vendors to build practical learning experiences that help leaders and employees understand, adopt, and apply AI responsibly.
Expand personalized, skills-based, and on-demand approaches that improve relevance and scale.
Team & COE Leadership
Lead and develop the Leadership, Learning & Growth team and build strong expertise in leadership development and learning design.
Lead the strategy for external learning partners, content providers, facilitators, and development resources.
Partner with Talent Strategy & Operations to create common ways of working across communications, nominations, reporting, measurement, and delivery.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Learning & Development, Organizational Development, Psychology, Business, or a related field.
10+ years of progressive experience in Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Talent Management, Organizational Development, or related disciplines.
Experience designing and leading leadership development strategies and portfolios in a complex, global organization.
Experience leading teams/people management and working across multiple businesses, functions, or geographies.
Preferred Qualifications
Master’s degree preferred.
Experience leading global learning or leadership development teams.
Experience implementing AI-enabled, skills-based, or personalized learning approaches.
Experience leading learning strategies, enablement programs, or adoption efforts that support enterprise AI deployment.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
Strong expertise in instructional design, adult learning, leadership development, and learning effectiveness.
Demonstrated ability to use data and outcomes to evaluate programs, communicate value, and make portfolio investment decisions.
Strong understanding of emerging learning technologies, AI, and evolving approaches to workforce development.
Strong leadership, communication, influencing, and vendor-management skills.
