Learning & Development Specialist in Eaglescliffe

At Tata Consumer Products Ltd, we stand #Forbetter – Planet, Sourcing, Nutrition, Communities. This role supports the Tata Eaglescliffe site by ensuring all site colleagues have the skills, capability and compliance needed to deliver safe, efficient and quality-focused operations.

You will lead training compliance across the Eaglescliffe manufacturing site, ensuring all colleagues, particularly operators and engineers, have the right skills, materials and support to work safely and effectively. Working with People, Operations, Health and Safety, key stakeholders and international teams, you will coordinate site training plans, keep capacity plans up to date, and support future capability and project planning through training needs analysis, skills mapping, launch readiness, project timelines and resource planning.

You will also manage external training within budget, share learning and best practice across markets, and work with Health and Safety to ensure the site remains audit-ready through accurate training records, compliance evidence, gap tracking, corrective actions and timely escalation of requirements.

Key Deliverables:

• Manage training budgets effectively by ensuring all spend is aligned to business priorities, manufacturing capacity, and mandatory compliance requirements.
• Track training fulfilment rates and return on investment through compliance improvements, operational performance measures and training outcomes.
• Ensure training outcomes are aligned to site and stakeholder needs by building strong relationships with Operations, Engineering, Health & Safety, People and Manufacturing teams.
• Plan, schedule and communicate training activity up to 12 months in advance, aligned to business objectives, manufacturing capacity plans, shift patterns and operational requirements.
• Maintain an accurate site training calendar, training matrices and management information to track training hours, completion rates, attendance, non-attendance and compliance gaps.
• Identify capability gaps through training needs, management information and feedback, working with the wider team to build plans aligned to Tata’s For Better ambition.
• Maintain safe, legal and audit-ready training compliance by reviewing compliance reports and supporting data integrity through regular audits.

Critical Success Factors:

• Strong knowledge of training compliance, training delivery, learning theory and evaluation approaches.
• Knowledge of electronic management information systems, food safety and health and safety requirements.
• Strong understanding of SOP governance.
• Ability to create an environment where colleagues feel confident to share ideas, issues and concerns.
• Strong stakeholder management, coaching and communication skills.
• Proven ability to plan and deliver training solutions aligned to business requirements.
• Strong problem-solving, prioritisation and time management skills.

Desirable Success Factors:

• Working knowledge of apps and virtual training platforms.
• Creative thinking with the ability to align business needs with training solutions.
• Project management skills to support manufacturing projects and training rollouts.
• Experience supporting developmental training programmes.

At Tata Consumer, we stand ‘For Better.’ Tata Consumer Products is a focused consumer products company uniting the principal food and beverage interests of the Tata Group under one umbrella.