Director, Global Leader Support

Summary

Join Western Digital's People Solutions team as the Director, Global Leader Support. Lead a global team focused on compliance, executing people programs, and building leader capabilities through coaching and training. Partner with business clients, Legal, Business & People Partners, People Operations, and COE teams to identify capability gaps and deliver people-focused solutions. Develop a global leader support model, a consistent coaching framework, and a robust compliance strategy. Use data to identify leader development needs and collaborate on broader organizational initiatives. This role requires extensive experience in leader coaching and support, leading global teams, and working with stakeholders to prioritize learning needs.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in a role focused on leader coaching and support, technology and manufacturing experience preferred
• Experience leading a global team and working across multiple regions and cultures
• Experience working with internal stakeholders and leaders to identify and prioritize learning needs focused on building people leader capability
• Ability to design, build and deliver scaled programs, including in-person experiences, virtual learning, diagnostics, coaching and community building for a global population
• Experience as a facilitator, learning designer, and content creator
• Demonstrated leadership and decision making to foster a culture of trust, respect and inclusion
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and manage multiple initiatives

Responsibilities

• Deliver a global leader support model to support cyclical volume leader coaching/support for the following inquiries: attendance, performance, solution delivery, business cases for workforce reductions, leaves and accommodations, employee civility, listening support, etc
• Develop a consistent framework for coaching, record keeping and tracking and strengthen team members skillsets to ensure high-quality leader coaching and support of inquiries
• Partner with COEs to proactively implement programs, focusing on upskilling leaders prior to program launches and providing in the moment, real-time coaching on managing employees
• Partner with internal stakeholders (Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Security & EHS) on a robust compliance strategy that ensures people leaders are provided statutory training on a regular cadence
• Ensure compliance of local labor laws, policy updates in partnership with Employee Relations and successful support of internal and external audits
• Using data, develop insights and themes to determine leader development needs and success metrics for regular updates to executive leaders and implementation of proactive measures
• Collaborate with the People Solutions ecosystem on broader organizational initiatives and ad hoc initiatives

Benefits

• Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance
• Annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents
• RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires
• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life, accident and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit
• The Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• The Western Digital Savings 401(k) Plan