Functional Development Manager (Food Safety Quality & Regulatory)

Position Summary:

As a member of the QR team, this position’s primary focus is on assessment and development of capability building and talent development strategies and solutions that support the entire QR organization. This position partners with HR Teams, QR Leaders, and Functional L&OD to support individual, team, functional performance, capability, and career development across the function to implement efficient and effective processes, programs and content that enhances QR capability and competence across the organization.  

 

Primary Responsibilities:

 

Capabilities: Build, & Maintain and Deliver QR Capability Assessment & Development Programs (70%)

• Develops and executes functions training strategy in accordance with the T&P functional L&OD strategic roadmap
• Define, develop and manage Training Matrices, Competency Matrices, Training/Learning Plans, and Training Documentation in support of functions training requirements.
• Strategically partner with QR leadership team and other functional leaders to assess and analyze learning needs based on development strategies and needs assessment data. Identify learning solutions for technical business needs. 
• Responsible for defining and identifying gaps in multiple employee populations (hourly and salaried) and implementing solutions to close those gaps
• Designs and facilitates key routines and learning strategies and programs to ensure relevant sharing and competence building is happening to build individual capability and performance
• Define, develop, and manage a standardized onboarding and learning path for key roles, which includes leadership, functional, and technical competencies
• Monitor external market best practices relating to adult learning, QR capabilities, technology advancements, etc.
• Assess and monitor the effectiveness of all learning and development initiatives against predefined metrics
• Defines and works to standardize digital solutions together with other functions that create “operator centric” value
• Develop and manage QR training budget

 

Project Management (20%)

• Design, Develop and Deliver training solutions to drive business results using the A.D.D.I.E. Model
• Compile data and analyze past and current year training requirements to help determine training priorities and best use of budgets. Assess effectiveness of overall training and impact to performance and makes adjustments as needed.
• Manage external vendor relationships, as necessary following preferred vendor standards
• Partner with corporate Learning and Organization Development to deploy training solutions
• Participate in corporate Learning Council as requested

Talent Management & Career Development (10%)

• Support development and understanding of Career Development framework at Nestlé
• Develop and deploy programs and resources to accelerate career development
• Support leaders with development resources 

 

Requirements and Minimum Education Level:

• BS/BA in Quality/Regulatory or a related field is highly preferred.
• Degree or certification in communication and/or training and education
• Position requires up to 20-40% travel 

 

Experience:

• 3 – 5 years of L&D experience (assessing, developing and deploying capability building), or relevant/transferable functional QR or category experience (7+ years of relevant experience in lieu of bachelor's degree)
• Proven demonstrated experience and success in curating effective learning solutions based on combination of “build-from-scratch” and customized “off-the-shelf” content (or relevant transferable QR/category functional expertise)
• Experience developing and delivering QR development capability building programs (or relevant transferable QR/category functional expertise)
• Experience in driving major initiatives in a complex environment
• Strong program management experience
• Experience in managing people and initiatives remotely

 

Skills:

• Strong organizational and/or project management skills. Able to lead and manage the development of Capability Building strategy and project manage the deployment and delivery (Plan, organize, budget, communicate, execute, and measure).
• Expertise in Instructional Design & Delivery: Current knowledge of effective learning and development methods, platforms, and approaches (or transferable QR experience and subject matter expertise)
• Expertise in conducting a needs assessment and deploying the right solution to close gaps
• Strong interpersonal skills (i.e., listening, counseling and coaching, negotiation skills)
• Effective ver