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Land O'Lakes, Inc.

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1921

🌾 Agriculture

Agriculture • Food & Beverage

Land O'Lakes, Inc. is a farmer-owned cooperative that has been operational since 1921. The company engages in various sectors of the agriculture industry, providing animal nutrition, crop inputs, and dairy foods. Known for their commitment to sustainability, Land O'Lakes employs cooperative efforts to support their members and communities. They are involved in agtech, working towards a sustainable future for agriculture through innovation and collaboration. Land O'Lakes values the impact of their work on the environment and community, aiming to create a better world through their agricultural products and initiatives.

📋 Description

• The Senior Manager, Skills Strategy & Enablement is responsible for translating the enterprise skills vision into practical, scalable solutions embedded across talent, learning, and workforce processes. • This role activates the enterprise skills framework (taxonomy, definitions, and proficiency levels), partners across HR and the business to integrate skills into core systems (e.g., Workday, LMS/LXP) and enables leaders to use skills data to make better decisions on hiring, development, mobility, and workforce planning. • The role also leads governance, measurement, and change efforts to ensure skills are actively used—not just defined. • Lead efforts to enable enterprise skills strategy, skills activation, learning platforms, and operational governance, setting clear priorities, and building specialized capability across skills, platforms, and operations. • Activate and scale the enterprise skills framework (taxonomy, skill definitions, and proficiency levels) and operating model, translating strategy into practical use across talent and learning processes. • Build strong partnerships across HR (Talent COE, HR Technology and Analytics) and the business and external partners to pilot, scale, and sustain skills-based skills-powered practices (e.g., job architecture, career pathing, development planning, and talent mobility). • Use skills data and insights to identify gaps, prioritize learning investments, and inform workforce planning, hiring, internal mobility, and career pathways. • Ensure learning platform and skills integration in learning management system is effective in defining skills development and proficiency assessment. • Oversee learning pathways, and experiences are intentionally designed to build skills, not just deliver content. • Partner with content owners and external vendors to ensure offerings support skill development and application. • Lead, coach, and develop a team responsible for skills enablement, learning operations, and learning technology. • Provide strategic oversight of learning technology platforms (e.g., LMS/LXP, skills platforms) to ensure they support the skills ecosystem. • Manage budget planning and investment optimization across skills enablement, learning technology, content, vendors, and delivery resources, identifying opportunities for cost-to-value tradeoffs and reinvestment. • Lead enterprise learning and skills communities of practice and support advisory forums/councils to ensure business alignment, accelerate adoption, and position skills as a business tool—not just an HR initiative.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in education, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Learning Sciences, Business, or a related field; Master's degree preferred. • Related experience in lieu of degree may be considered. • 10+ years in learning, talent, workforce strategy, or organizational development. • Demonstrated experience in skills‑based projects that include broader HR initiatives e.g. Recruitment, Internal Mobility and Career Pathing. • Strong people leadership experience (3+ years), including developing managers or senior professionals. • Experience in learning technology and learning operations in a complex organization. • Ability to translate strategy into practical, scalable execution. • Strong enterprise influence, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills. • Strong project and program management experience. • Preferred: Experience working within a skills taxonomy or skills intelligence platform. • HR Business Partner Experience with strong working knowledge of Learning & Development and Talent Management. • Exposure to career architecture, workforce planning, or talent marketplace models. • Experience operating at enterprise scale in a matrixed organization.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical • dental • vision • PTO • life & disability insurance • education assistance • a 401k • a variety of well-being resources • prorated PTO for part-time employees • holiday pay for part-time employees • employee development programs for part-time employees • prorated education assistance for part-time employees • a 401(k) for part-time employees