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Job Title:
Senior Director, Talent Management Bonita Springs, FL, USA, 34134
Employment Status:
Full-time Posting Start Date:
9/14/26 If you are currently an employee of Herc Rentals, please apply using this link: Herc Employee Career Portal Founded in 1965, Herc Rentals is one of the leading equipment rental suppliers in North America with 2025 total revenues reaching approximately $4.4 billion. Herc Rentals' parent company, known as Herc Holdings Inc., listed on the New York Stock Exchange on July 1, 2016, under the symbol "HRI." Herc Rentals serves customers through approximately 607 locations and has about 10,000 employees in North America as of June 30, 2026. Job Purpose This role designs, operationalizes, and continuously evolves Herc Rentals' enterprise talent management and leadership development strategy, ensuring a strong, future-ready leadership pipeline. This is an opportunity to define and the next stage of the company's Talent Management strategy and approach, creating practical, scalable, measurable solutions that meet today's business needs while preparing leaders for tomorrow's challenges. As Herc grows across North America expanding our branch network, integrating acquisitions, and scaling field operations in a safety-critical, customer-facing industry this role builds the leadership bench needed to sustain operational excellence, customer focus, and profitable growth. Serving as strategic advisor and execution partner to senior leaders and field Human Resources, the role is accountable for setting direction, driving adoption, governing, enabling leaders, and delivering measurable results across the enterprise. Working closely with Talent Acquisition & Internal Mobility, Field Operations Learning & Development, field Human Resources and senior business leaders, this role ensures a consistent leadership philosophy, shared tools, disciplined execution, and clear ownership of talent management across the people and culture ecosystem. Programs are designed to reflect the realities of networked branch and district operations while maintaining enterprise standards, and to help leaders and teams confidently adopt enterprise talent management processes and practices. What you will do... Talent Management Strategy & Execution
- Contribute as a member of the Talent Leadership Team, partnering with colleagues to shape the direction, priorities and effectiveness of the company's People & Culture strategy
- Own and operationalize the enterprise talent management framework and key processes including talent reviews, high-potential identification, succession planning, and leadership development.
- Partner with Sales, Operations, and field Human Resources to translate business strategy into clear talent management priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
- Improve the quality and use of workforce and talent information, build talent from within and support adoption of consistent talent management approaches enterprise wide
- Enable development from within by increasing talent visibility, career pathways, priority experiences and leadership readiness, helping the business build capability and create opportunities for people to grow and develop Leadership Development & Program Execution
- Design, launch, and oversee leadership development programs across all levels, from front-line managers to senior leadership.
- Ensure leadership experiences are practical, experience-based, performance-oriented, and tied to business outcomes.
- Continue the build-out and implementation of a leadership development framework and ecosystem that enables leaders to continuously develop leadership skills while also addressing the need to strengthen the bench of future, high potential leaders. Succession Planning & Executive Development
- Lead enterprise succession planning for field operations, enabling the identification and development of future field leaders
- Facilitate succession reviews with senior leaders, ensuring disciplined follow-through and accountability for closing readiness gaps.
- Support executive development and coaching aligned to readiness gaps, including building executive sponsorship credibility for AI-enabled transformation. Assessment, Data & Insight Application
- Leverage assessments and talent analytics to inform decisions while reinforcing leadership accountability and judgment.
- Track metrics for leadership effectiveness, bench strength, pipeline health, and AI/digital capability maturity.
- Translate insights into concrete development, succession, and training actions, including targeted AI interventions where gaps are identified. Change Leadership & Enterprise Enablement
- Reinforce leadership expectations and cultural priorities through consistent systems, messaging, and behaviors.
- Enable leaders to navigate growth, transformation, acquisitions, and AI-driven change through practical capability building and structured change support.
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