Manufacturing Skills Development Lead
Cargill’s size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way.
We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials — from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact
Location: Schiphol (Netherlands) - Hybrid working is supported, but 3 days per week will be required in the office/ at Cargill locations.
As part of the Global Learning & Development team, this role will lead the strategy and execution for developing technical capability across our manufacturing workforce. The focus is on empowering employees at all levels to strengthen their expertise ensuring a safe, efficient, and high-performing operational environment.
This role will design and implement scalable core and common learning programs that build foundational and advanced technical skills, reinforce operational discipline, and support continuous improvement across manufacturing sites. Programs will focus on practical application, hands-on learning, and performance outcomes that directly enhance productivity, quality, and safety.
The position will partner closely with manufacturing leaders, as well as technical experts, to ensure adoption is aligned with strategic priorities and regulatory requirements.
As a recognized subject matter expert in learning and development design, this job partners closely with key manufacturing stakeholders to gather technical content and expertise, translating complex engineering and manufacturing concepts into understandable and engaging learning experiences and materials to achieve measurable learning outcomes. This job applies instructional design principles, technologies and multimedia tools to guide the design, development and implementation of measurable and scalable experiences that drive performance-focused employee skill development.
Key Accountabilities
- PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: Guides the design and development of highly complex learning experiences for the organization, ensuring the organization's learning and development strategies drive performance impact by supporting the evaluation of organization strengths and weaknesses to identify learning objectives, reviewing current learning and development programs, identifying and analyzing performance impacts, and incorporating improvements.
- PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION: Develops and deploys learning and development design strategies, methodologies, tools, approaches and processes for the organization's professional employees to identify high potential talent, facilitate discussions, provide top talent view, and deliver overall learning and development insights to critical partners.
- PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION: Administers learning and development design programs, ensuring alignment with learning objectives, use of multimedia content, and effectiveness of quality assurance checks to enhance the overall learning experience.
- LEARNING EXPERIENCE DEVELOPMENT: Ensures application of instructional design principles and methodologies to create engaging and interactive learning experiences, reviews analysis of learning needs, approves appropriate instructional strategies, and ensures content is organized in a structured and logical manner.
- STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT: Partners collaboratively with other subject matter authorities and stakeholders to provide thought leadership on content and materials, and ensure accuracy and alignment with learning objectives.
- PROGRAM ANALYSIS: Evaluates the effectiveness of learning solutions through assessments, feedback and metrics, and partners with the related team to continuously resolve opportunities to enhance the learning experience bringing best practices, industry trends and user feedback into future design iterations.
- VENDOR MANAGEMENT: Partners with key vendors and stakeholders to stay updated on the latest learning technologies, tools and methodologies, and identifies opportunities to integrate them into instructional design and delivery, including learning management systems, authoring tools and other technology platforms to create and deliver content.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 6 years of experience designing and delivering learning programs for Global audiences.
- Strong understanding of and interest in manufacturing technologies and technical disciplines (e.g., EHS practices, Reliability Systems, Smart Manufacturing), with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into accessible, practical training for diverse Manufacturing audiences.
- Demonstrated knowledge of adult learning principles, blended learning strategies, and change enablement.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Strong project management capabilities and comfortable working in matrixed or global organizations.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Education, Learning Design, or related disciplines.
- Experience in technical capability development, manufacturing upskilling programs, and/or implementation of new operational technologies (e.g., process control systems, plant automation, or reliability initiatives).
- Familiarity with manufacturing excellence principles, including safety leadership, operational reliability, process optimization, and compliance standards.
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Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
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