Director, Learning & Strategic Capability Building

The Director, Learning & Strategic Capability Building identifies the capabilities KION needs for the future and turns them into skills applied across the business. The role translates business strategy into a multi-year capability roadmap, skills architecture and targeted learning investments. Driving the full capability-building lifecycle, the position will use internal and external insights to design, build, deliver (both directly and through learning partners), and measure engaging, multi-modal learning sequences that will embed the building of future skills into everyday work and talent practices.

We offer

• Career Development
• Competitive Compensation and Benefits
• Pay Transparency
• Global Opportunities

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $141,000 - $206,800 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications

• Translate KION's strategy into a capability roadmap, defining the skills to build, sustain or retire.
• Shape the enterprise skills taxonomy and capability frameworks that provide a common language across operating units, regions and functions.
• Use workforce data and external market and technology signals to forecast future skills, identify gaps and recommend prioritised investments.
• Define learning pathways and lead priority programs from concept through design, build, launch, facilitation and ongoing delivery.
• Create practical, creative and accessible solutions across facilitated, digital, social, experiential, on-the-job and blended modalities.
• Embed skills through manager enablement, practice, performance support, communities of practice and integration with talent and operating rhythms.
• Own enterprise reskilling for AI and digital ways of working, from baseline fluency to role-specific capability and application.
• Partner with IT, Learning Partners and operating units to align learning with technology, business processes and local delivery.
• Measure proficiency, application, behaviour change and business outcomes, using insight to improve programs and focus investments.
• Lead and develop a specialist team across skills intelligence, learning architecture and digital capability.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across operating units to align capability priorities and decisions.
• Role model the KION Winning Behaviors, in particular Embrace Curiosity and Lead with Innovation.

What we are looking for

• Significant learning, capability building or organisational development experience in a complex multinational organisation, spanning strategy, design, build and delivery.
• Track record of translating strategy into enterprise capability frameworks, learning portfolios and sustained business adoption.
• Experience leading enterprise reskilling and creating engaging learning across facilitated, digital, blended and workplace-based modalities.
• Strong command of workforce data, learning analytics and evidence-based investment cases.
• Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a matrixed, multi-country environment.
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Business-level English and willingness to travel internationally.
• Experience in industrial, manufacturing, engineering, logistics or supply-chain environments.
• Familiarity with skills-based organisation models, talent practices and learning technology, including LXP, skills platforms and AI-enabled learning.
• Experience working across EMEA, APAC and North American business contexts.
• Postgraduate qualification or professional certification in organisational psychology, human resources, learning and development, or workforce analytics.

KION brands keep the world moving - globally, regionally, and locally.

KION is the Supply Chain Solutions Company.

With over 42,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we enable smart, sustainable, and reliable supply chains worldwide - wherever goods are stored, moved, or delivered.

KION offers its customers the full spectrum of solutions to make their supply chains future-ready.

Our international brands, Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli and our regional brands, Fenwick and OM, stand for outstanding technological innovation, intelligent automation and service excellence in forklift trucks and warehouse equipment.

Dematic complements this expertise with state-of-the-art automation technology and AI-supported software solutions that optimize intralogistics across warehousing, production, and distribution.

Whether locally or globally - we offer exciting career opportunities in an innovative environment shaped by our core values: Integrity, Collaboration, Courage, and Excellence.

Together, we create the magic of supply chain solutions.