Senior Manager, Leadership Development

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest-growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Certified as a Great Place to Work®, recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly-traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau, goeasy Ltd is a Canadian company that provides non-prime leasing and lending services through easyhome, easyfinancial and LendCare. We offer a wide variety of financial products and services including lease-to-own merchandise, unsecured and secured installment loans, direct-to-consumer auto loans, and point-of-sale financing to over 4,000 merchants in the powersports, automotive, retail, home improvement and health sectors. With over 30 years of experience, our 2200 employees work with our customers to help them get access to the money they need today, while they rebuild their credit and graduate to prime rates. Our omnichannel model includes over 400 retail locations and digital/mobile platforms that enable our customers to transact with us through their channel of choice.

Reporting to the Director, Leadership & Employee Engagement, the Senior Manager, Leadership Development is a critical role in the continuing momentum in the leadership and career development strategy, program design, and execution at all levels for the organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Builds, maintains, and continually advances the leadership development strategy and curriculum, inclusive of in-class learning programs, virtual-led programs, performance support tools to build capabilities in leaders.
• Partners with HR and business leaders in building the leaders of the future with the capability to curate and manage high-performing teams.
• Conducts needs analysis to determine gaps between current and desired state to develop strong leaders and high potential employees.
• Manages vendor relationships with third-party leadership development suppliers while continually assessing and exploring new opportunities. Determines whether to build, buy, or curate content to meet the needs of the business.
• Devises program evaluation processes and measurements to monitor the effectiveness of program offerings and return on investment, and implements improvements where required.
• Maintains active knowledge of best practices in leadership learning, talent management and instructional design and delivery related to improving the effectiveness of organizational leaders.
• Utilizes creative thinking capabilities to design and develop client-specific leadership interventions using innovative development approaches.
• Designs learning experiences that are effective and engaging to learners, applying adult learning principles, and follow-up reinforcement activities.
• Conducts individual and group coaching
• Supports the development of goeasy’s Career Growth Framework and competency models
• Ensures learning materials are effective, current, and relevant.
• Evaluates the impact of learning solutions for quality, improvement of performance business impact, and scalability.

Key Qualification & Experiences

• 4-year bachelor's degree from an accredited university in education, business, communications, or related field
• 7+ years of direct work experience developing training programs, products, and learning experiences, with emphasis on leadership development.
• Experience creating, executing, and managing leadership programs impacting a wide range of audiences (e.g., new leader programs through senior leadership development programs).
• Experience as a facilitator of leadership training programs (face-to-face and virtual)
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing online, instructor-led, or blended learning programs related to leadership or management development.
• Extensive knowledge of current leadership and professional development theories and practices
• High degree of business acumen and strategic thinking and planning
• Formal coaching education and experience an asset
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions in a timely manner sometimes with incomplete information, under tight deadlines and in high pressure situations.
• Enthusiasm, supportiveness, and a focus on developing others and self.
• Exceptional verbal, written and interpersonal skills.
• Certification in Caliper or other psychometric assessments an asset

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada. Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire.  We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

To learn more about our great company please click the links below:

http://goeasy.com/careers/

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