Manager, Leadership Development

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recently recognized as one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate cultures in 2018, 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, goeasy operates two main business units. easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $35,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest  merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our mission to provide everyday Canadians the chance for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 1800 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future. 

Reporting to the Director, Leadership & Employee Engagement, the Manager, Leadership Development owns professional development and learning for leaders across goeasy. This is a new role that has the exciting opportunity to shape the leadership development strategy and bring it to life in this high-performance organization with an award-winning Culture.

Responsibilities

• Conducts needs analysis to determine gaps between current and desired state to develop strong leaders and high potential employees; actively manages the Succession Planning process with HR Business Partners
• Builds, maintains, and continually advances the leadership development curriculum aligned to the company’s strategic objectives; inclusive of in-class learning programs, outsourced solutions, virtual-led programs, and performance support tools to build capabilities in leaders.
• 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, report on the findings.
• 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 learning experiences using innovative training approaches.
• Designs and delivers learning experiences that are effective and engaging to learners, applying adult learning principles, and follow-up reinforcement activities.
• Conducts individual and group coaching; performs friendly “Interventions” to bolster team and department success
• Provides ideas, support, and assists with creation of e-learning modules and on-line content.
• Ensures learning materials are effective, current, and relevant.
• Evaluates impact of learning solutions for quality, improvement of performance business impact, and scalability.
• Facilitates development activities to organizational leaders utilizing solid awareness of adult learning principles and appropriate delivery modalities.

Qualifications

• University degree from an accredited university with a focus in education, business, communications or related field; post-grad certification in Adult Education is desirable
• 5-7 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.

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:

www.goeasy.com/careers

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