UL Solutions

At UL Solutions, our mission is to empower trust in a safer world. We take pride in cultivating a workplace where employees thrive and grow through unique career experiences and cutting-edge development opportunities. Join us in shaping the future of leadership at UL Solutions as our Program Manager, Leadership Development.

As the Program Manager, Leadership Development, you will lead our signature leadership development programs— Global Leadership Development Program (GLDP), Technical Leadership Development Program (TLDP), and Operational Leadership Development Program (OLDP). These programs are integral to building our leadership pipeline, advancing our Alpha strategy, and fostering skills in areas like digital transformation, sustainability, operational excellence and broad leadership capability.

You will be responsible for program oversight, strategy and execution, ensuring a best-in-class participant experience while staying on time and budget. Interacting with senior executives, this role requires strong executive presence and skills in communication, influence, program management, and strategic thinking, in support of a high-performing, global workforce.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversees large and complex global programs to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery, as well as strong participant experience
• Provides thought leadership for strategy and design for all signature leadership development programs, ensuring alignment to best practices and organizational priorities
• Ensures holistic evaluation of programs, demonstrating ROI and impact over time
• Owns framework/methodology for program management and ensures consistent application across programs
• Manages the performance of direct report (Sr. Project Coordinator) by developing accountabilities, establishing performance objectives, providing career counseling, feedback and guidance, and ensuring that all policies are understood and adhered to
• Serves as primary contact for participants going through program, ensuring an exceptional experience
• Acts as front-line contact on program related activities, issues, and risks. Manages risks and issues and takes corrective measurements
• Manages vendor relationships in support of program strategy, design and execution
• Stays abreast of best practices and trends in leadership development, ensuring application to signature programs
• Helps coordinate executive involvement in programs, ensuring strong sponsorship and active engagement from senior leaders across UL Solutions supporting signature programs
• Oversees standardized, consistent approach to nominating and selecting participants across programs
• University degree (equivalent to a Bachelor’s degree) in Business Administration or Management, or related field plus Over five years of project management experience running large-scale, distributed/complex projects with multiple parallel threads of work
• PMP certification a plus, but not required with related hands on delivery experience
• Experience designing, implementing and evaluating leadership development or learning programs on a global scale
• Experience with cross geographical project coordination and management
• Experience managing vendors in the execution of complex, global projects.
• Solid experience as lead or participant in cross-functional or global projects or worked in multiple functions or regions.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, technical and business acumen and industry knowledge
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, executive presence and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels, with executive level reporting and escalation experience
• Proven ability to build and lead integrated teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple sites
• Background in the development of strategic and tactical planning of technology and people resources necessary for successful completion of several large-scale projects
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership
• responsibilities in critical situations
• Strong analytical, problem solving and financial skills
• Ability to innovate under new and/or changing conditions

Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $100,000 to $145,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).

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A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.

Advancing our mission of working for a safer world starts with our people. We have over 15,000 team members around the world, each making a valuable and essential contribution to creating a safer future. Whether it’s hiring top talent, empowering our people to learn new skills or providing critical hands-on support, we are always finding new ways to deliver a better employee experience. We’re looking for people to share their ideas and help us create a diverse, engaged culture that’s united by a passion for safety and sustainability. Join our team, shape our culture and support our global community of experts.

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