Director of Talent
3 days ago
Tampa
Job Description About AFC AFC Transport is a growing transportation and logistics company with operations across the U.S. and an international support team. We're entering a major growth phase and need a strong people leader to help build the structure, leadership bench, training systems, culture, and talent foundation required to scale. This isn't a slow corporate environment. We're building something ambitious, with a strong foundation, expanding fleet, growing logistics operations, and a clear vision for what's next. The Role The Director of Talent will work directly with the CEO and executive team as a strategic advisor on people, leadership, organizational structure, culture, training, hiring, retention, and performance. We're looking for a builder. Someone who knows that people, leadership, culture, and training aren't the "soft" parts of the business — they're major drivers of performance, retention, growth, and company value. What You'll Do • Serve as a strategic people advisor to the CEO and executive team, • Design and execute the people strategy required to support AFC's next stage of growth, • Partner with leaders to improve organizational structure, role clarity, accountability, communication, and leadership effectiveness, • Build and lead people development programs: leadership training, manager training, career paths, succession planning, and employee growth plans, • Create training programs for managers, operations teams, sales, logistics, support staff, and future leaders, • Define and reinforce AFC's culture, values, leadership principles, and expected behaviors, • Lead culture-building initiatives that strengthen ownership, urgency, accountability, teamwork, service, loyalty, and continuous improvement, • Build systems for performance management, feedback, coaching, recognition, engagement, and retention, • Help leaders identify talent gaps, performance issues, development needs, and future leadership potential, • Redesign onboarding so new employees understand AFC's culture, expectations, systems, and how to succeed, • Lead recruiting strategy for key leadership, corporate, operations, sales, logistics, driver support, and specialized roles, • Build a consistent hiring process using scorecards, structured interviews, assessments, and clear decision-making standards, • Own AFC's employer brand and recruitment marketing strategy, • Develop campaigns, content, employee stories, social media strategy, and candidate messaging that show why AFC is a great place to build a career, • Track talent, culture, training, and people KPIs (retention, turnover, engagement, quality of hire, leadership bench strength, training completion, internal promotions, performance trends, employee satisfaction)Required Qualifications, • Bachelor's degree required, • 10+ years of experience in talent leadership, people operations, HR leadership, organizational development, learning & development, culture building, or a related people function, • Proven experience building people systems in a growing company, • Strong background in employee development, manager training, leadership coaching, performance management, succession planning, and retention, • Experience advising CEOs, founders, executives, or senior leadership on people strategy and organizational development, • Experience building or improving company culture in a fast-moving business environment, • Experience creating training programs, leadership development programs, onboarding systems, and career path frameworks, • Strong understanding of recruiting, hiring process design, employer branding, and talent acquisition strategy, • Ability to use data, systems, assessments, surveys, AI tools, ATS platforms, and analytics to improve people decisions, • Excellent communication, writing, judgment, organization, emotional intelligence, and follow-throughPreferred Experience, • Transportation, logistics, supply chain, industrial services, private equity-backed companies, or high-growth founder-led businesses, • Driver recruiting, operations recruiting, sales recruiting, or high-volume hiring, • Building an employer brand and recruitment marketing strategy from the ground up, • Developing leaders in operational, sales, logistics, or multi-location environments, • Helping a company scale by improving structure, accountability, training, culture, and leadership depthWho You Are You're strategic but hands-on. Comfortable advising the CEO one moment and building a training process or coaching a manager the next. You're direct, organized, people-smart, practical, and strong enough to challenge leaders when needed. You know how to build trust, communicate clearly, and help people grow without lowering standards. What Success Looks Like • Stronger leaders at every level, • Managers who are better trained, more consistent, and more accountable, • Employees who understand the company's values, expectations, and standards, • New hires who onboard faster and become productive sooner, • High performers who see a future at AFC and want to grow here, • Internal promotions increasing across the organization, • Consistent training across departments, • A stronger leadership bench, • Culture that operates as a real competitive advantage, • A CEO and executive team with a trusted people advisor guiding growth decisions, • AFC becomes known as a place where high-performing people build serious careersCompensation & Details Location: Tampa, FL (in-office) Type: Full-time Compensation: Competitive base salary plus performance-based opportunity