Talent Development Manager, Mid-Career Program

About the role

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Where is the work

Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.

The Opportunity

Trane Technologies is a global industrial company with 46,000 employees operating across some of the most complex, fast-moving markets in the world. Our Talent & Organizational Capability (T&OC) COE (center of excellence) exists to build the organizational strength that fuels our outperformance, and this role sits at the center of that mission.

Mid-Career Manager, you will design and implement the enterprise strategy for how Trane Technologies develops mid-career talent across the enterprise. You will build scalable development solutions and career pathways that accelerate talent readiness, strengthen internal talent pipelines, and address critical business capability needs. You will partner with fellow program managers to build an integrated talent development ecosystem that connects early-career, accelerated development, and mid-career programs, creating cohesive development pathways and experiences across career stages.

This role combines enterprise program strategy with hands-on business partnership, connecting talent development solutions across career stages while ensuring consistent, high-quality experiences for participants, managers, and business leaders. This is a role for a practitioner-strategist who sees career and performance development as a lever for business and culture outcomes.

What You Will Own

Mid-Career Strategy & Solutions

• Design and implement scalable talent solutions for mid-career top talent addressing the common stall points in this population, capability gaps, ambiguous next-step paths, and disengagement risk anchored to business capability needs, accelerating talent readiness & retention.
• Own the enterprise mid-career development strategy and roadmap, leading the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of scalable programs, including pilot development, evaluation, and expansion across business functions and regions, while ensuring alignment with organizational talent priorities and business capability needs.
• Build program content, learning experiences, and tools that managers and HRBPs can deploy directly, ensuring solutions are practical and scalable.
• Own the end-to-end mid-career program calendar, including cohort design, program delivery, and follow-up.
• Partner with the Global Talent & Succession Lead, regional and business HR leaders, and Talent Councils to identify development needs and translate them into differentiated talent solutions.

Functional Talent Partnership & Program Delivery

• Serve as the primary talent development partner for assigned business functions, building relationships with functional leaders, HRBPs, program participants, and people managers to understand talent priorities and development needs.
• Oversee day-to-day program delivery and participant experience within assigned functions, including onboarding, development planning, rotations, manager engagement, performance checkpoints, and key program milestones.
• Identify and proactively address program challenges, participant concerns, and opportunities to improve manager effectiveness, engagement, and talent development outcomes.
• Develop a holistic understanding of the talent pipeline within assigned functions, identifying opportunities to strengthen development pathways, internal mobility, and talent retention across career stages.
• Partner with early talent program owners and T&OC colleagues to deliver a connected, consistent talent development experience tailored to functional business needs

Program Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with fellow program managers to establish consistent program standards, tools, processes, and participant experiences across talent development initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to streamline program administration, share resources, and improve operational efficiency as programs scale.
• Collaborate across the T&OC team to align development programs with broader talent management, succession, and organizational capability strategies.
• Partner with Workday Talent product owners to align system capabilities, reporting, and employee and leader experiences with program needs.

Analytics & Impact

• Build and leverage data sets, metrics, and evaluation frameworks to measure short-, mid-, and long-term program effectiveness, demonstrating impact on retention, readiness, equitable access, pipeline health, and business performance; present findings and recommendations to senior HR and business leadership.
• Continuously scan the external landscape to identify emerging practices, benchmark against best-in-class organizations, and introduce innovation that keeps Trane Technologies' talent growth approach ahead of the curve.
• Monitor program execution and outcomes within assigned business functions, identifying trends, opportunities, and risks that require action.

What You Will Bring

• 6+ years of progressive experience in talent management and career development within a complex, global organization with a demonstrated track record of designing, implementing, and measuring enterprise-scale accelerated talent development solutions.
• Deep knowledge of career development frameworks best practices, and adult learning principles, with the ability to translate research and external benchmarks into actionable strategies.
• Executive presence and the credibility to influence senior leaders, HRBPs, and cross-functional partners across geographies and cultures.
• Experience working with Workday or comparable Talent technology platforms with experience translating business requirements into effective system design.
• Experience with leadership assessment tools and assessment methodology; Hogan & Coaching certification preferred.
• Bachelor's degree required, master's degree in HR and Organizational development is preferred

Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range

• $75,700.00 - $135,834.99
• Compensation Type: Salary
• Incentive Eligible: Yes
• Sales Commission Eligible: No