Director, Talent, Learning & Organizational D

Position Overview

The Director, Talent, Learning & Organizational Development serves as the leader of MP Materials Talent, Learning, and Organizational Development organization. This role is responsible for shaping and delivering talent and leadership strategies and systems across the employee lifecycle, ensuring alignment with business priorities.

Position Responsibilities

• Owns the end-to-end talent lifecycle, including performance management, talent assessment, and employee development.
• Designs, implements, and continuously improves an end-to-end performance management process (goal setting, quarterly check-ins, mid-year, and year-end).
• Partners with business and HR leaders to strengthen goal clarity, feedback quality, and performance conversations, while identifying critical capabilities, workforce needs, and future skill gaps.
• Designs and leads enterprise talent review processes, including critical role identification, succession planning, key talent identification, and development planning.
• Establishes and monitors talent analytics and metrics (e.g., bench strength, retention) to assess effectiveness and inform decisions.
• Designs and delivers manager and leadership development strategies that strengthen leadership capability, accelerate high-potential talent, and build a sustainable leadership pipeline.
• Partners with HR Business Partners and business leaders to diagnose organizational needs and drive change and transformation efforts that enhance team performance and alignment.
• Provides tools and frameworks to enable coaching, mentoring, and leadership development across all levels.
• Fosters a high-performance culture that strengthens employee engagement, retention, and leadership effectiveness.
• Defines and scales enterprise learning and capability building aligned to business priorities and future workforce needs.
• Develops and implements a learning strategy aligned to business priorities, critical capability needs, and future workforce requirements.
• Aligns learning initiatives to key skill gaps and capabilities needed to support business growth and performance.
• Manages enterprise learning programs and platforms (e.g., LMS, LinkedIn Learning).
• Ensures learning solutions are practical, scalable, and tied to measurable improvements in performance and capability building.
• Measures the effectiveness and impact of learning programs using data, feedback, and defined success metrics.
• Manages external learning partners and vendors to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Oversees and enhances early talent programs (e.g., interns, co-ops).

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Business Administration, or a related field; Master’s degree and HR certifications (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in Human Resources, Organizational Development, or a related field, with a strong track record of building and scaling Talent, Learning, and Organizational Development capabilities.
• 8-10 years of progressive HR experience, including significant experience in Talent Management, Learning, and/or Organizational Development.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing performance management, succession planning, and leadership development programs.
• Experience leading or building enterprise or function-wide talent programs in a growing organization.
• Strong program leadership and change management experience, including driving adoption of new processes and frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both a strategic and execution level, translating enterprise talent strategies into practical, scalable solutions that drive measurable business impact.
• Strong business acumen, with the ability to translate business priorities into talent, learning, and organizational development strategies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to use data and analytics to inform decisions, measure impact, and translate insights into action.
• Strong communication and influencing skills across all levels of the organization.
• Familiarity with learning platforms, LMS, and digital learning strategies.