Director, Talent Development, Global

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OUR PURPOSE AND CULTURE

We are driven to create a future where people and place enrich one another. We are wholly committed to rooting ourselves more deeply in every place we are in while setting new benchmarks for positive impact.

As a pioneering collective with a common purpose, we curate extraordinary moments and honor the soul of every place along our journey. At Rosewood Hotel Group, we answer The Calling. Together, we Make the Place.

THE TEAM

The global Talent & Culture team focuses on attracting, developing, and rewarding Rosewood Hotel Group associates. Partnering with corporate, regional and property leaders, the team brings Relationship Hospitality to life, strengthens leadership capability and builds sustainable internal talent pipelines across the group. Within this function, Global Talent Development sets enterprise learning and leadership development standards, translates business priorities into scalable development solutions and enables consistent global-to-local implementation. This role reports to the Senior Director, Talent Development, Global and works closely with regional Talent & Culture teams, property leaders and external partners.

YOUR ROLE

As Director, Talent Development, Global, you will turn Rosewood Hotel Group’s Talent Development strategy into an integrated global portfolio of leadership, capability and core learning solutions. You will own the design, implementation, governance and impact measurement of assigned enterprise initiatives, ensuring global standards are practical, scalable and adopted across regions and properties. You will also manage budgets and vendors, strengthen the learning ecosystem and digital capability, advance development pathways, and facilitate selected core programs that grow talent and business performance across the group.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE THE PLACE

• Translate enterprise priorities into annual Talent Development plans, governing assigned programs, budgets, vendors, risks and resources, and using evidence to recommend when solutions should scale, evolve, pause or retire.
• Diagnose leadership and business capability needs, design and deploy leadership capability frameworks, Executive Leadership Development and enterprise capability solutions with business stakeholders.
• Govern global learning sponsorship frameworks, strengthen Individual Development Plan adoption and manager follow-through, and enable coaching and mentoring approaches that build a learning culture.
• Evolve the learning ecosystem through competency and success-profile integration, skills-based and personalized learning, digital literacy and AI fluency, while partnering with the operational LMS lead on platform use, data quality, mandatory learning, reporting and audit readiness.
• Own and govern the master trainer program, supporting the global Talent Development community to build certified facilitator capability, consistent implementation and measurable impact.
• Set the engagement approach, agenda and operating rhythm for the global Talent Development community for one region, acting as a liaison and implementation partner so global standards and local needs are reflected in program rollouts.
• Establish measures and dashboards for adoption, quality, capability uplift, leadership pipeline outcomes, business value, cost efficiency and stakeholder confidence, translating insights into clear recommendations for senior and executive stakeholders.
• Contribute as an experienced master facilitator to selected core programs and support priority capability programs and future learning innovations.

COULD THIS BE YOU?

• You bring a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business, Psychology, Education or a related discipline; an advanced qualification would be an advantage.
• You have led talent development, leadership development or enterprise learning portfolios in a global or multi-regional organization.
• You know how to design and implement leadership, capability, coaching, mentoring and core learning solutions at scale.
• You bring strong portfolio and project leadership, including governance, prioritization, budget and vendor management, risk management and lifecycle decision-making.
• You are comfortable using diagnostics, competency frameworks, success profiles, learning pathways, learning technology, analytics and impact measures to improve development outcomes.
• You can translate business strategy into practical development priorities and influence senior stakeholders across corporate, regional and property environments.
• You are a confident facilitator and communicator who can lead change and create clear, executive-ready recommendations, reports and presentations.
• You bring people leadership experience and a track record of building capability, accountability and collaboration; experience in hospitality, luxury, lifestyle or another service-led, globally distributed business would be an advantage.

OUR BENEFITS

As part of our team, you’ll enjoy a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your wellbeing, professional growth, and life beyond work. This includes medical coverage, retirement benefits, paid time off, complimentary room nights, learning and development opportunities, global career opportunities, and industry-leading paid parental leave supporting eligible associates across all paths to parenthood.

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

At Rosewood Hotel Group, your voice is heard – and valued. We’re a community that encourages associates to be themselves, not fit into a fixed culture, and this philosophy shines through in our commitments to reflect and honor the history, culture and geography of our destinations. We’re not only committed to building and nurturing genuine, long-lasting relationships but to transforming them – and our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) strategy helps put these principles into practice.