Lowes Univ Leadership Trainer

Your Impact
The primary purpose of this role is to foster an environment of experiential learning; developing leaders on the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed at Lowe's to drive organizational Mission and Strategy. This is accomplished by hosting events, facilitating training courses, and providing opportunities to practice concepts and skills learned. The Leadership Trainer motivates and inspires leaders to achieve objectives by facilitating discussions using practical examples, leadership messages, and real-life experiences. This role will collaborate with leaders in Learning & Development, functional business units, business and shared services subject matter experts and Human Resources to ensure program content and learner experience deliver needed business results. This role will significantly leverage store operations knowledge and practical experience to effectively deliver all forms of training and provide coaching to learners that prepares them to meet and exceed role expectations. This role is critical to Lowe's as it enables the successful development of company leadership.

What you will do

• Serves as primary program facilitator, utilizing a variety of teaching styles and methods to link course concepts to relevant business situations.
• Consults and advises with functional business unit leaders to translates enterprise strategic direction into robust learning solutions.
• Ensures design solutions are adapted to both the culture of the organization and the diversity of the workforce.
• Drives the development and maintenance of a comprehensive suite of solutions to address the performance gaps in a business, an audience, a function or an initiative.
• Synthesizes and applies feedback from learners and business subject matter experts (SMEs) as appropriate to continuously improve training materials.
• Manages assigned training session to ensure the overall experience is effectively executed.
• Manages program and project dependencies, interdependencies, risks, issues and related mitigation strategies.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma with 7+ years relevant business experience
  OR 2 years’ experience as a store manager of a Home Improvement Retailer and meeting key annual performance metrics
• 7+ years’ experience with proven track record in demonstrated strong interpersonal communication, active listening, motivational and facilitation skills
• Demonstrated proficiency with performance management and effective coaching techniques
• Experience facilitating large group presentations, training, meetings
• Experience managing / supervising people or cross-functional, complex projects
• Ability to build and maintain working relationships with management, business leads and peers on a wide range of matters.
• Ability to think quickly
• Comfortable in a dynamic, fast-moving environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Management, Learning & Development, Instructional Design, Organizational Development, HR, or related field
• Master's Degree, MBA, Education, Instructional Design, Organizational Development, Human Resources, Industrial-Organization Psychology, or related field
• Retail Store Management experience
• 6+ years demonstrated strong interpersonal communication, active listening, motivational and facilitation skills
• Understanding of instructional design and adult learning principles

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.