Sr. Learning and Development Leader

The Sr. Learning & Development Leader will be responsible for leading a team of Learning and Development Business Partners and for delivering on the L&D strategy across our Containerboard and Cellulose manufacturing team. This is a cross-functional role requiring exceptional stakeholder coordination and alignment, partnering closely site L&D leaders, manufacturing leadership, and other capability leaders.

In addition to executing and updating a strong strategy for learning in Manufacturing, primary areas of responsibility include team leadership, learning program development and delivery, learning technology and content development and management.

Georgia Pacific is making a large investment in our people through learning and development. The L&D Leader is a critical leadership position, with the opportunity to shape L&D for Manufacturing and position us for continued growth.

• Leading the development and execution of a long-term strategy and roadmap for building a stronger learning culture and operating model in manufacturing.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership to define, enable and reinforce clear behavioral expectations for managers and leaders related to building a learning culture.
• Enable L&D Business Partners to collaboratively create and sustain a culture that values learning and dedicates resources for meeting learning objectives.
• Actively participates in and contributes to a thriving Learning Community of Practice to share best practices, stay up to date on current trends, and to align on content, technology, delivery, and measurement standards.
• Provide leadership and direction to a team of L&D professionals to support the vision of manufacturing.
• Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring and career development support for individuals and the team as a whole.
• Define and drive accountability for achieving capability goals and objectives.
• Actively monitor and manage team workload, balancing for capability, development, cross-training, engagement, etc.
• Partner closely with central L&D and Manufacturing leadership to identify training needs, contributing to curriculum development and content/program design.
• Partner with other capability leaders to develop and deliver training, including safety and environmental.
• Provide leadership to site-level LMS admin to enable loading content, tracking completions, pulling reports, and aligning to LMS standards.
• Establish and maintain manufacturing learning metrics and reporting
• Reinforce established standards and best practices
• Provide change leadership for the effective use and full adoption of learning technologies in order to ensure impact and results
• Follow and reinforce established standards for content storage, maintenance, updating, and decommissioning.
• Utilize established templates, standards, style guides, and review standards in order to ensure a consistent learner experience and to maintain high content-quality standards across all locations.

• Experience driving strategic learning and development initiatives in a heavy manufacturing or industrial environment
• Experience building and implementing a new learning and development program, including the associated change management activities
• Expertise in the development, delivery, and evaluation of training initiatives to support ongoing improvements in knowledge, skills, process, and engagement
• Experience directly leading and developing professional level employees
• Experience collaborating with senior leaders to influence the development of business strategy, key performance indicators, etc.
• Able and willing to travel 50%+ to work in manufacturing locations (will be higher initially)

• Pulp and/or paper manufacturing industry experience
• Experience utilizing Learning Management Systems; experience with virtual training and eLearning preferred
• Experience managing projects from inception to implementation with demonstrated success in achieving performance objectives