Sr. Mgr, Talent Mgmt -Leadership Development

Senior Manager, Talent Management - Leadership Development & Emerging Talent

The Senior Manager, Talent Management - Leadership Development & Emerging Talent plays a pivotal role in driving impactful learning and talent initiatives across Corrugated North America. This role supports the commercial and functions learning and development within the Corrugated Packaging business across $10.0 billion annually, over 200 sites, and 17,000 employees across three sub-businesses. This role is a strategic partner and involves program coordination, technology integration, and continuous improvement to support a high-performing workforce, with a focus on early career talent and leadership development. Must be comfortable working in manufacturing environments and willing to travel up to 50%. This role partners with key stakeholders across the Corrugated business segment and to support building, aligning, and implementing the training strategy across the division. This includes identification and communication of skill needs, the integration of those skill needs into common training programs and processes, and the improvement of learning solutions that allow us to better scale learning to our teams. Key stakeholders for this leader are the business leaders across corrugated, SMEs, and HR leaders in the Corrugated business segment.

How you will impact Smurfit Westrock :

• The focus of this role is to be a strategic partner aligning the Corrugated strategic and talent plans with the North America regional plan, specifically in relation to leadership development across the Corrugated segment and the cultivation of talent pipelinesprincipally in early careers.
• Leverage understanding of market trends and internal talent strategies to align leadership development with the evolving needs of the workforce.
• Understand organizational needs, synthesize findings, and create solutions to build learning opportunities aligned with the Corrugated strategic and talent plans.
• Build partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders related to learning needs that support the business strategy and talent plans.
• Gather business requirements and develop tailored learning solutions across the segment - particularly professional development, with a focus on early career talent.
• Create and leverage capability and skill-related content in partnership with North American regional capability leads aligned with business priorities.
• Manage and implement learning initiatives including experiential learning opportunities to build practical, on-the-job skills by identifying key sponsors, developing project plans, and collaborating effectively across teams.
• Facilitate in-person and virtual learning experiences, ensuring skill and / or knowledge acquisition toward intended business results as needed.
• Tracking and measuring programs using data and metrics to ensure objectives are met, strategic needs are fulfilled, and talent development is effective.
• Utilize approved learning systems to assign, track, deploy, and report on training across the segment.
• Develop and coordinate scalable programs that support early career talent, including internships, co-ops, apprenticeships, and rotational experiences.
• Ensure early career programs are well-represented and accessible across Corrugated business.
• Collaborating with North America regional leads to ensure alignment with local workforce strategies and talent needs.
• Develop localized action plans in partnership with HR and Talent Acquisition to engage with community organizations, schools, and workforce development boards.

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Smurfit Westrock (NYSE : SW) is a global leader in sustainable paper and packaging solutions. We are materials scientists, packaging designers, mechanical engineers and manufacturing experts with a shared purpose : Innovate Boldly. Package Sustainably. Guided by our values of safety, loyalty, integrity, and respect, we use leading science and technology to move fiber-based packaging forward. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by state or federal law.