Job Information
Cargill Plant Skills Development Manager - Global Operations (Open to Remote) in Wayzata, Minnesota
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 157 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Location
This role is based in Wayzata, Minnesota, but we will also consider a remote location in the United States.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Plant Skills Development Manager is responsible for skills-based learning for plant employees within Cargill. They are focused on the global plant training experiences and curriculum for global operations strategic capabilities. In this role, you will analyze plant skill requirements in a production environment, design high-impact training strategies, build internal stakeholder commitment, develop deployment roadmaps, and collaborate to develop, launch, and govern the product implementation experience across learning programs and resources. You will partner closely with the essential teams and business stakeholders to ensure a prioritization of needs and effective deployment in function thereof while playing a key part to ensure employees and leaders across the company´s plants have access to relevant and effective learning opportunities that contribute to the professional growth and enhance performance of the plant.
Key Accountabilities
Create the learning product strategy and collaborate with key stakeholders to gather and prioritize the product backlog, align learning initiatives with business objectives, ensure the content meets the specific needs of employees, establish strong partnerships, and ensure roadmap alignment.
Create skills-based learning experiences for plant employees that align with the identified skill needs through a broad and innovative set of learning methods to enhance the skill development and performance of the employees.
Partner across essential teams to ensure effective delivery of the skills-based learning experience, including coordinating training sessions, monitoring the effectiveness of the content delivery methods, and making necessary adjustments to improve learner engagement and outcomes.
Develop evaluation mechanisms to measure the effectiveness and impact of the learning content and collect feedback from various stakeholders to identify additional changing plant skills requirements, areas for improvement, and make iterative enhancements to the learning materials.
Leverage learning technology platforms and tools to enhance the delivery and accessibility of the learning content and partner with the essential team to stay updated on the latest learning technologies and tools and identify opportunities to integrate them into instructional design and delivery.
Assess and continuously improve the plant skills-based learning content to ensure its relevance, accuracy, and effectiveness and stay updated on industry trends and best practices in skills development to incorporate innovative approaches into the learning materials.
Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders to understand their requirements, gain support, and ensure the alignment of skill learning initiatives with organizational goals as well as effectively communicate the value and impact of the skills-based learning content.
Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of six years of related work experience [training or learning & development
Preferred Qualifications
Master's degree or other post-secondary degree
Professional certification in learning and development
Experience working in a production environment or supporting a production-focused team
Experience building technical training experiences and curriculum
Strong project management, change management, communication, and influencing skills
Independent, self-starting thought leaders with a proven track record of developing and implementing successful and sustainable training programs in a globally complex environment
Ability to collaborate with matrixed leadership teams, present and influence innovative learning & development strategies
Additional Information
Compensation
The expected salary for this position is $120 - $145K. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.
Benefits
Full-Time (30+ hours) positions are eligible for a benefit package including the following (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions): Paid time off; paid holidays; medical, vision, and dental coverage; flexible spending accounts; life insurance; disability insurance; retirement savings; employee and family assistance program (EAP)
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.
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