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CDW

Director, Talent Strategy

CDW

. Own the enterprise approach to leadership assessment and succession .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • United StatesLead💰 $184,000 - $220,600 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in talent management, succession planning, and strategic workforce planning, with a strong focus on integrating AI tools and data-driven insights into performance management and leadership assessment. Proven ability to influence stakeholders and drive organizational change in a complex, multinational environment.

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Talent ManagementSuccession PlanningStrategic Workforce PlanningPerformance ManagementAI Tools Integration

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Hard Skills
Leadership AssessmentTalent StrategyOrganizational EffectivenessWorkforce InsightsHR TechnologyData AnalyticsSkills StrategyCapability BuildingChange ManagementContinuous Learning
Soft Skills
Executive CommunicationStakeholder ManagementFacilitationConsultingInfluencing Without Authority
Tools & Technologies
Workday Talent ToolsWorkday Skills CloudAI Tools
Industry Keywords
Human ResourcesBusiness AcumenMultinational OrganizationMatrixed OrganizationTalent Transformation

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Own the enterprise approach to leadership assessment and succession
  • Equip HR Business Partners and leaders with guides, templates, prompts, and practical resources for talent reviews
  • Drive follow-through on succession outcomes and track leadership readiness, bench strength, and talent actions
  • Build strategic workforce planning as an enterprise capability
  • Translate business priorities into future workforce, role, skill, and capability requirements
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition, Learning, Finance, and HR Business Partners on workforce plans
  • Lead CDW's shift toward a skills-based talent organization
  • Advance the skills framework, taxonomy, and skills infrastructure roadmap, including Workday Skills Cloud
  • Embed skills into succession, workforce planning, development, and internal mobility
  • Own the enterprise performance management approach and reinforce accountability for outcomes
  • Build continuous coaching, feedback, and performance conversations
  • Simplify and standardize performance practices across teams and geographies
  • Strengthen talent data and insights and communicate talent stories to senior leaders
  • Drive accountability for leadership readiness, capability gaps, and action progress
  • Use and embed AI across succession, workforce planning, skills, and performance processes
  • Lead and develop a team while advising executives and influencing senior stakeholders

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or a related field
  • 10+ years of progressive experience in talent management, talent strategy, succession planning, leadership assessment, strategic workforce planning, performance management, skills strategy, organizational effectiveness, or HR business partnership in a multinational organization
  • Experience leading teams, setting strategy, building capability, and driving execution
  • Strong business acumen connecting talent practices to enterprise strategy, growth, transformation, and performance outcomes
  • Strong executive communication, facilitation, consulting, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience using talent data, workforce insights, HR technology, or analytics to inform decisions and shape strategy
  • Ability to lead through ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and drive change across a matrixed organization
  • Demonstrated personal use of AI tools as a core part of work
  • Curiosity and commitment to continuous learning in skills-based talent practices, workforce planning, talent transformation, and the future of work
  • Experience operating in a large, complex, matrixed organization
  • Demonstrated hands-on use of AI and evidence of redesigning team processes or deliverables around AI
  • Prior HRBP experience strongly preferred
  • Experience in a multinational organization strongly preferred
  • Experience with Workday talent tools, Workday Skills Cloud, or related HR technology strongly preferred
  • Experience leading enterprise transformation or adoption at scale strongly preferred

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Annual bonus target of 30% subject to terms and conditions of plan
  • Benefits overview provided at https://cdw.benefit-info.com/
  • Collaborative environment
  • Supported growth and professional development
  • Equal opportunity employment