Senior Manager - Leadership Development

In Penske Talent Development, it is our mission to create experiences and resources that help our colleagues to transform as human beings. In doing so, we grow the organization’s capacity to serve our communities while being a positive force for good in the world. 

Position Summary: 

The Senior Manager, Leadership Development – Leadership Coaching is responsible for coaching and developing leaders across the organization, both in support of leadership development programs (LDPs) and in custom coaching engagements. This role also facilitates intact team development workshops, manages key administrative duties for the coaching practice, and leads continuous improvement initiatives and project work as needed. Leadership development at Penske facilitates change and growth in both mindsets and skillsets of individuals, teams, and groups by using a wide variety of behavioral techniques and methodologies, including but not limited to transformational leadership, adult development, and the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model. 

In alignment with that goal, this position leverages excellent coaching and facilitation skills to develop associates in critical leadership roles, ready talent for positions of increasing responsibility and complexity, move teams toward high performance, and strengthen the effectiveness of the organization overall. The ideal candidate will be passionate and experienced in leadership coaching, facilitation, team facilitation, learning design and evaluation, and adult development. The Senior Manager, Leadership Development – Leadership Coaching will report to the Director, Talent & Organizational Development for Penske’s coaching practice as well as for team development and executive development functions. This role will report onsite at our Learning Center in Green Hills.

Major Responsibilities: 

In partnership with the Director, Talent & Organizational Development and appropriate stakeholders: 

• Lead debriefs and coaching in support of LDPs designed for critical roles. Debrief multiple psychometric and vertical development assessments for LDP cohorts that will result in increasingly clear and sophisticated understandings of self, others, and the systems in which these leaders are involved.

• Lead short- and long-term custom individual coaching engagements for high-potential candidates for critical leadership roles, Director roles, and Officer roles designed to enhance lives and relationships and maximize performance potential as requested by leadership and via succession planning.

• Consult with senior leaders across the enterprise to surface real development needs for individuals and teams. Partner to design, deliver, and evaluate custom team development interventions, including group coaching, to meet those needs.

• Facilitate leadership development programs and modules to the standard of the program design, utilizing master facilitation skills to meet participants where they are, foster dialogue, find their growth edge, and create the conditions for learning.

• Lead critical administrative activities and core processes that keep the coaching practice and its related functions operating efficiently and effectively. These duties include launching and managing assessments, surveying and assessing the effectiveness of coaching and team development engagements, interfacing with external vendors, and other related responsibilities as assigned.

• Leverage data and feedback to lead individual continuous improvement projects that strengthen and refresh coaching practice functions as needed.   

• Stay current with industry best practices, emerging tools and technology, and AI-enabled applications through regular self-development and learning.     

• Develop relationships and collaborate with key business partners and subject matter experts across the enterprise.

• Conduct needs assessments, applying professional instructional design and organization development frameworks as needed.

Headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, is a partnership of Penske Corporation, Penske Automotive Group, and Mitsui & Co., Ltd. A leading global transportation services provider, Penske operates a premier fleet of vehicles and serves its customers from locations in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Penske’s product lines include full-service truck leasing, contract maintenance, commercial and consumer truck rentals, used truck sales, transportation and warehousing management and supply chain management solutions. Visit www.GoPenske.com to learn more.  

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience required. Master’s Degree in related area of study (i.e., Learning, Leadership, OD, Education and Human Development, HR, I/O Psychology) highly preferred.

• 10+ years of leadership/executive coaching experience or an equivalent blend of leadership development and/or team development facilitation and coaching experience required.  

• Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Associate Certified Coach (ACC), or meaningful progress toward these certifications required.

• 7+ years of experience leading people, teams, and/or programs required. 

• Experience managing leadership and team development projects, from diagnosis and design to facilitation and evaluation along with deep subject matter expertise in vertical development and transformational leadership required.

• Certification(s) in leadership development, vertical development, organization development, team development, and related assessments preferred.

• Proficiency in Microsoft 365 and learning technologies. 

• Excellent communication, administrative, and project management skills required.

• Strong professional presence and interpersonal skills; quickly builds enduring relationships with leaders as well as associates at all levels of the organization. 

• Self-directed problem-solver who works well both independently and collaboratively in delivering high-quality, high-profile results.

• Creates clarity in ambiguity, finds creative ways to make incremental progress in complex scenarios

• Thrives in a deadline-sensitive environment that requires balancing urgency with genuine care for and connection with others.

• Motivated to develop self for the sake of staying at the cutting edge and developing others. 

• Deep personal humility, consistent curiosity, and strong professional will. 

• Candidate must consistently demonstrate successful performance against Penske’s leadership behaviors at the level of leadership for which they seek candidacy.

• Safeguards integrity and confidentiality of organizational and associate data and information to the highest standards. 

• Respects and ensures intellectual property rights and privileges are consistently safeguarded 

• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job.

• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.

In Talent Development, we: 

• Take a systems perspective – Everything is connected! 

• Honor the wholeness of the human experience – Find the poetry in everyone 

• Develop ourselves – No one can be a guide on a path they haven’t walked 

• Stay connected to meaning and purpose – The Why provides the fuel and direction for the What & How 

• Stay curious and humble – The answers become obsolete. Fall in love with the questions! 

• Explore multiple perspectives – Reality is constructed, another perspective may be more useful 

• Be easy to do business with – Everyone is busy, it’s up to us to figure out how to make things easier 

• Stay in condition to make a difference each day – Take care of ourselves and each other! 

Physical Requirements: 

The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines. 

-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs./12kg. 

-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. 

Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

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