Talent Development Director
Talent Development Director Job Description
Brooks is seeking a Director-level Talent Development leader to translate enterprise talent, culture, and leadership priorities into a practical operating plan that strengthens leadership capability, improves execution discipline, and embeds Brooks' High Performance Culture into how leaders manage the business.
Translate executive direction into clear workstreams, milestones, governance routines, tools, and metrics.
Partner with executive leadership, HR business partners, and business leaders to improve OKR quality, leadership routines, development planning, talent reviews, manager effectiveness, and accountability.
Own the talent development roadmap and execution routines needed to deliver measurable improvement in leadership effectiveness and business execution.
Key Responsibilities
Translate enterprise priorities into annual and quarterly operating plans with clear workstreams, owners, milestones, success measures, and governance routines.
Set and manage the talent development roadmap for HPC adoption, leadership capability, OKR discipline, development planning, talent reviews, and performance enablement.
Build scalable tools, playbooks, sessions, templates, and routines that improve execution discipline, coaching quality, and manager consistency.
Embed HPC behaviors into leadership routines, performance conversations, talent processes, development plans, and team operating rhythms.
Strengthen OKR quality by improving focus, clarity, measurable outcomes, alignment, and follow-through.
Partner with HR and business leaders to identify leadership, performance, accountability, or behavior gaps and convert them into targeted interventions.
Coach and facilitate with leaders and managers using specific examples tied to Brooks Behaviors, OKR execution, and business priorities.
Establish a regular governance cadence for roadmap reviews, OKR quality reviews, talent review follow-up, development plan progress, and leadership routine adoption.
Track metrics that show adoption, effectiveness, execution discipline, and leadership accountability.
Use data and feedback to identify risks, assess progress, and adjust priorities, tools, routines, or interventions.
Prepare concise insights and recommendations for senior leadership discussions.
Serve as a trusted partner to HR and business leaders by translating talent and culture expectations into practical business execution.
Influence across functions by aligning stakeholders, clarifying trade-offs, resolving barriers, and escalating risks appropriately.
Reinforce enterprise expectations by making commitments visible, following up consistently, and ensuring owners act on agreed priorities.
Build credibility through judgment, clear communication, constructive challenge, and consistent follow-through.
Qualifications & Experience
10+ years of experience in talent development, organizational effectiveness, leadership development, performance enablement, HR strategy, or a related discipline.
Experience converting senior leadership vision into operating plans, roadmaps, governance routines, and measurable outcomes.
Success leading enterprise-wide or function-wide talent, culture, performance, or leadership initiatives in complex, matrixed organizations.
Strong knowledge of OKRs, performance management, leadership development, talent review, succession planning, engagement, and behavior-based culture frameworks.
Proven ability to build scalable tools, processes, playbooks, and routines that improve execution, accountability, and leader effectiveness.
Ability to engage credibly with senior leaders while driving execution at the working level.
Strong facilitation, communication, coaching, stakeholder management, and data-informed decision-making skills.
Prior Director-level experience preferred, or demonstrated readiness to operate at Director-level scope, complexity, influence, and accountability.
Compensation & Benefits
Base Salary Range: $148,351.35 USD to $200,710.65 USD
Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
Benefits:
Medical, Dental, Vision and Disability Insurance
401(k) Plan
Exempt employees are provided company paid holidays and Flexible Vacation to enjoy personal time off and incidental sickness.
Contact Information
If you have questions about our benefits and compensation package, please contact talentattraction@brooks.com or call +1 (978) 262-2400.