Director of Talent

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-through

Preferred 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 depth

Who 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

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 careers

Location:

Tampa, FL (in-office)

Type:

Full-time

Compensation:

Competitive base salary plus performance-based opportunity

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