Enterprise Leadership Development Manager
About the role
Enterprise Leadership Development and Professional Skills Capability Strategy
Primary focus: approximately 70%
- Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of enterprise leadership development and professional skills capability-building initiatives, including needs assessment, strategy development, solution design, implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with senior business leaders, HR leaders, Talent, Learning, and functional stakeholders to diagnose leadership and professional skills gaps and translate insights into practical, scalable development strategies.
- Design, build, and evolve leadership development pathways for key leader populations, career moments, readiness stages, and enterprise priorities, recognizing when to build and when to curate content.
- Translate enterprise leadership expectations, Eaton culture commitments, and business capability needs into scalable learning standards, tools, resources, and experiences.
- Establish enterprise governance, standards, success measures, and program frameworks that enable consistency while allowing appropriate local adaptation.
- Manage enterprise program deployment strategy in partnership with decentralized businesses, regions, functions, and learning delivery partners.
- Serve as both strategic advisor and hands-on practitioner, directly building content, tools, resources, communications, implementation plans, and measurement approaches as needed.
- Develop scalable learning journeys, manager enablement tools, facilitation resources, participant materials, communications, and implementation support assets.
- Monitor external market trends, emerging leadership practices, learning technologies, and capability-building innovations to keep solutions current, relevant, and practical.
- Lead vendor strategy, vendor selection support, relationship management, quality assurance, and vendor performance evaluation for assigned capability areas.
- Provide coaching, facilitation, consulting, and subject matter expertise on leadership effectiveness, professional skills, and capability development.
Organizational Development and Organizational Change Management Capability Building
Supporting focus: approximately 30%
- Integrate organizational effectiveness and change leadership principles into leadership development frameworks, learning pathways, and manager enablement resources.
- Support the development of enterprise learning pathways and resources that help leaders strengthen organizational development, organizational design, change leadership, and OCM capability.
- Help define and develop the leader tools, frameworks, learning experiences, and resources needed to navigate organizational change and transformation effectively.
- Contribute to enterprise standards, practices, and capability-building approaches that strengthen Eaton's organizational effectiveness and change leadership maturity.
- Ensure leadership development solutions reflect Eaton's expectations for leading change, building organizational capability, and enabling sustainable performance improvement without serving as project-specific change management support.
- Serve as a thought partner and subject matter resource on leading change, building organizational capability, and sustaining adoption through leaders.
Qualifications:
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
- Minimum of a Bachelors Degree from an accredited institution.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in leadership development, learning and development, organizational development, organizational effectiveness, change management, talent management, or a related field.
- Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and within the future.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree preferably in business, HR, instructional design or Master's degree in organizational development, industrial/organizational psychology, human resources, adult learning, business.
- Experience with Prosci or other organizational change management methodologies required; Prosci or other OCM certification preferred.
- Experience with organizational design or organizational effectiveness methodologies preferred; certification in OD/OE methodology preferred.
Position Criteria:
- Ability to operate as both a strategic capability leader and a hands-on individual contributor in a lean COE environment.
- Experience working in a global COE or enterprise environment influencing leadership development, learning, talent, organizational development, organizational effectiveness, or change management strategies.
- Strong skills in organizational diagnosis, performance consulting, needs analysis, skill identification, and capability gap analysis.
- Experience designing enterprise capability strategies, learning pathways, frameworks, tools, and resources aligned to business priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Experience establishing governance, standards, frameworks, processes, and operating models that balance enterprise consistency with local flexibility.
- Strong analytical and measurement skills, including the ability to define success measures, evaluate impact, interpret data, and use insights to improve outcomes.
- Ability to manage ambiguity, prioritize effectively, and translate broad organizational challenges into practical, scalable solutions.
- Knowledge of instructional design, adult learning, leadership development, organizational development, workforce transformation, and capability-building best practices.
- Experience working with digital learning platforms, learning ecosystems, content curation, external vendors, and third-party learning providers.
- Strong communication, consulting, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Up to 10% travel required.
All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates' privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on 8.28.2026.
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