Manager, Leadership Development (AMER)

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What will you do?

A day in the life of the Manager, Leadership Development AMER at VF looks a little like this.

You work within Global Learning and Leadership Development as a senior individual contributor supporting the AMER region, while being deeply focused on a specific leadership population such as New Manager, Manager, or Director. You partner closely with business leaders, HRBPs, regional learning partners, and global portfolio and design teams. Your role centers on becoming a trusted learning lead for your assigned leadership level, responding to regional leadership development needs by leveraging and tailoring enterprise learning solutions, designing and facilitating bespoke experiences where needed, and ensuring leadership learning is grounded in real VF leadership challenges and expectations. You also contribute AMER leadership insights back into global curriculum and portfolio work, helping enterprise solutions evolve in practical, relevant ways. This role reports to the Senior Director, Global Learning, and Leadership Development.

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

Aligns Leadership Development to Business Priorities and Real Work Challenges

• Serves as the designated learning lead for a defined leadership level (e.g., New Manager, Manager, or Director), becoming deeply embedded in the leadership expectations, challenges, and decision contexts at that level.
• Builds strong relationships with business leaders, HRBPs, and functional partners to understand leadership priorities, pain points, and ways of working.
• Shapes and maintains the leadership capability curriculum for the assigned level in partnership with global learning leaders, ensuring alignment with enterprise leadership frameworks and priorities.
• Defines leadership skill expectations, progression, and outcomes appropriate to the assigned level, grounded in real performance requirements and business standards.
• Ensures leadership learning reflects real VF work, tradeoffs, and expectations rather than abstract leadership models.

Regional Customization (AMER Execution & Delivery Lead)

• Serves as the AMER point of contact for leadership development programs at the assigned level.
• Uses strong knowledge of the enterprise learning catalogue to recommend, tailor, or combine existing leadership solutions in response to AMER‑specific needs.
• Designs and deploys bespoke, quick‑turn leadership learning solutions when existing offerings do not fully meet regional or leadership‑level needs.
• Facilitates leadership programs and workshops across AMER markets, ensuring relevance, consistency, and high‑quality learner experiences.
• Supports regional delivery execution, ensuring leadership learning lands effectively in real business and people‑management contexts.

Global Team Member (Enterprise Contribution & Governance)

• Contributes AMER leadership insights to global curriculum design, portfolio discussions, and roadmap planning for the assigned leadership level.
• Represents AMER leader needs and market context in global working sessions and governance forums.
• Acts as a thought partner to global learning teams, influencing how enterprise leadership solutions evolve based on regional and real‑world leadership realities.
• Aligns AMER execution with global leadership programs, architectures, and experience standards while providing early feedback on gaps or friction.

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, especially a degree in Human Resources, Business, Education, Organizational Development, or a related field, we are most interested in your 5+ years of experience and professional achievements. 

• Highly collaborative, with the ability to build strong, trusted relationships with business leaders, HRBPs, and regional and global learning partners.
• Deep understanding of leadership development at a defined leadership level, with the ability to quickly embed in leadership context and credibility expectations.
• Strong stakeholder communication skills, able to distill leadership needs, feedback, and constraints into clear, practical learning recommendations.
• Skilled at conducting strong intake conversations to diagnose leadership capability needs beneath surface requests.
• Experience working with Subject Matter Experts to translate complex content into focused, usable learning experiences.
• Able to learn quickly and adapt, especially when working across different leadership populations, business contexts, or evolving enterprise priorities.
• Strong execution discipline, with the ability to translate plans into action and deliver high‑quality learning experiences reliably.
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills, balancing domain leadership, regional execution, and global contribution without losing momentum.
• Sound judgment in applying, tailoring, or combining existing enterprise leadership learning solutions before designing new ones.
• Capable of designing and facilitating leadership learning experiences that are practical, grounded in real VF leadership challenges, and directly applicable to the role.
• Brings an organized, follow‑through‑oriented mindset, keeping stakeholders informed, aligned, and confident in delivery progress.

Hiring Range:

Incentive Potential: This position is eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details of the additional compensation eligibility for this position will be provided during the recruiting and interview process.

Benefits at VF Corporation: You can review a general overview of each benefit program offered, including this year's medical plan rates on www.MyVFbenefits.com  and by clicking Looking to Join VF? Detailed information on your benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

Please note, our hiring ranges are determined and built from market pay data. In determining the specific compensation for this position, we comply with all local, state, and federal laws.

At VF, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. If you require accommodations during the application process, please contact us at [email protected]. VF will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals to the extent required by applicable law.

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