At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Role Overview
This role is central to how we build future leaders, from campus talent through supervisors and aspiring managers. You’ll design and deliver high impact leadership development experiences that build readiness, skills, and confidence while directly supporting business performance.
Acting as both a strategic partner and hands-on program leader, you’ll translate business needs into engaging learning journeys that blend cohort programs, rotations, mentoring, and real-world application. You’ll manage programs end to end, partner closely with business and HR leaders, use data to continuously improve outcomes, and ensure learning experiences scale with quality and impact.
This is an opportunity to create programs that go beyond training, shaping how future leaders think, grow, and lead.
Key Responsibilities
Program Design & Development
Structure comprehensive development programs including cohort-based initiatives, rotational assignments, mentoring components, and developmental projects
Design multi-module learning journeys with clear competency frameworks, progression pathways, and measurable outcomes
Pilot innovative approaches including adaptive learning, gamification, microlearning, and social learning platforms
Continuously evaluate and enhance program design based on feedback, impact data, and market trends
Conduct needs assessments using surveys, interviews, focus groups, competency gap analysis, and performance data review
Identify critical skill gaps, development priorities, and opportunities for targeted leadership interventions
Serve as internal consultant to business leaders on leadership development strategies and solutions
Program Operations & Execution
Manage full program lifecycle from needs assessment through evaluation: scoping, design, vendor selection, delivery, and impact measurement
Coordinate rotational assignments including placement planning, stakeholder alignment, progress tracking, and transition support
Oversee cohort-based programs ensuring consistent participant experience, timely completion, and achievement of learning objectives
Manage virtual learning sessions: platform configuration, facilitator briefings, engagement strategies, technical support, and recording
Coordinate complex schedules for participants, facilitators, executives, and guest speakers across multiple concurrent programs
Maintain program documentation: participant rosters, attendance records, completion tracking, certification issuance, and compliance records
Track participant career progression and long-term program impact on retention, promotion rates, and advancement
Address participant questions, concerns, and technical issues with responsive, service-oriented approach
Foster cohort connection and peer learning through networking events, discussion forums, collaborative projects, and alumni communities
Define and track key performance indicators: participation rates, completion rates, satisfaction scores, competency gains, behavior change, and business impact
Collect and analyze program data using LMS reports, survey platforms, assessment tools, and HR analytics systems
Facilitate / co-facilitate leadership development workshops, seminars, and learning sessions for diverse audiences (emerging leaders, mid-level managers)
Stakeholder Engagement & Partnership
Partner with business unit leaders, functional heads, and senior executives to identify leadership development needs aligned with strategic priorities
Engage program sponsors, executive champions, mentors, and coaches to ensure active participation and program advocacy
Facilitate stakeholder meetings to review program design, gather input, communicate progress, and celebrate participant achievements
Collaborate with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Succession Planning, and Compensation teams to integrate programs with talent processes
Work with Communications to promote programs, share success stories, and build organizational awareness of development opportunities
Prepare executive briefings, presentations, and business cases for leadership development investments
Communicate program outcomes and ROI to senior leadership through data-driven storytelling and impact dashboards
Qualifications
Minimum of 3 years’ experience in leadership development or talent management, including at least 3 years within the financial services sector (preferred).
Ability to use data and business intelligence tools to identify skill gaps and measure the effectiveness of programs and inform decisions.
Advanced financial literacy and a solid grasp of key business metrics (budget, ROI, and financial levers).
Bachelor’s degree in business, HR, or related field (preferred).
Skills & Competencies
Project planning and execution across multiple initiatives, including timeline development, milestone tracking, risk and dependency management, and coordination amid competing priorities, resource constraints, and shifting deadlines.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives that demonstrate program impact, influence stakeholders without direct authority, and engage senior leaders with confidence and executive presence.
Highly organized and detail oriented, with the ability to manage complex, dependency‑heavy programs, prioritize across concurrent initiatives.
Demonstrates strong analytical, creative, and strategic thinking to diagnose root causes, solve complex challenges, adapt to fast changing environments, and make sound decisions while balancing competing stakeholder priorities and business objectives.
Brings strong business acumen and a consultative, change aware approach to learning, enabling influence without authority.
Core
Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Strong judgement and thoughtful risk management
Critical thinking skills, ability to look ahead and proactively manage potential issues
High attention to detail and organized
Strong work ethics, integrity, professionalism and ability to perform independently as well as part of a team
Highly motivated and flexible, demonstrates growth mindset
Hybrid, some travel required
Technical Requirements
Experience using workplace technologies such as
MS Office including intermediate Copilot/ChatGPT
SharePoint Design Skills
Power Automate (basic workflows) and Apps (basic forms and integrations)
Familiarity with Workday Learning courses and basic system navigation (a plus)
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The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.