The Dairy Foods Culture & Learning Manager is responsible for driving engagement, culture, and technical learning initiatives across Dairy Foods. Partnering closely with Dairy Foods Leadership and HR, the Culture & Learning Manager ensures that culture and learning strategies align with organizational goals and support a highly engaged workforce.
Building on Dairy Foods' highly engaged culture, this role offers a unique opportunity to leverage your creativity and passion to design and implement training programs that strengthen technical and functional capabilities needed for long-term success. By fostering a culture of continuous learning, the Culture & Learning Manager will play a key role in creating learning & engagement experiences that support growth and advance business objectives.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Provide strategic leadership to define the vision, purpose for employee-led culture initiatives and technical/functional learning programs. Additionally, this role will lead the programing, program implementation, execution, and budget management including vendor selection/management as required for these programs.
Partner with key stakeholders, Enterprise Learning and Organizational Effectiveness leaders, and cross-functional teams to identify learning needs, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and growth across Dairy Foods with an emphasis on technical and functional skills.
Partner with Dairy Foods senior leadership to align culture and technical learning strategies with business objectives, ensuring consistency in messaging and behaviors.
Utilize advanced instructional design principles and contribute expertise to develop and deliver learning solutions that address complex skill gaps.
Design & implement learning curriculum that emphasizes learning engagement, skill application, and measurable outcomes through innovative methods and diverse training modalities for the key functions in Dairy Foods; Sales, Marketing, R&D and Research, Insights and Analytics.
Utilize data-driven insights to measure learning effectiveness, track skill development, and drive continuous improvement.
Stay current with industry trends to bring innovative learning and development solutions to the organization.
Required Qualifications:
8 or more years of relevant learning and development including instructional design experience with responsibility for end-to-end creation of instructor-led and/or e-learning materials with a focus on technical/functional skills training
Bachelor's Degree in Instructional Design, Educational Studies, or related field
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Instructional Design or related field
Skill requirements:
Ability to foster a culture of inclusion and connection, amplifying Land O'Lakes Core Values to inspire team commitment, pride, and engagement.
Expertise in instructional design methodologies & adult learning principles
Strong executive presence with exceptional written and verbal communication skills
Proven ability to build a maintain relationships across all levels of the organization.
Deep expertise in program and project management, with the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes
Strategic execution skills, translating broad organizational goals into actionable plans that drive measurable results.
Strong facilitation and presentation skills, delivering impactful learning experience for diverse audiences
Skilled in consulting, with the ability to assess needs, influence stakeholders, and drive collaboration
Innovative problem solver, able to address complex challenges with creative solutions under time and resource constraints.
Salary range: $120,880 - $181,320
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
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