Job Description

Position Title

Learning & Development Leader

Function/Group

Human Resources

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

Regular

Role Reports to

Direct line to Senior Director, HR at GIC and dotted line to Sr Director, Learning COE

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid


ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.


JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

Human Resources focuses on inspiring our talent and teams to drive winning performance. Through exceptional HR practices, support and tools, we enable our employees to maximize their full potential and develop world-class capabilities. Human Resources supports the business to build agile organizations while driving employee engagement. HR is aligned around three areas of practice: HR Operations, Centers of Expertise (CoE), and Business HR

For more details about General Mills please visit this Link

Purpose of the role

The Learning Business Partner (LBP) – GIC is a strategic learning leader responsible for shaping, delivering, and scaling leadership and core capability development across the Global India Center (GIC). This role partners closely with senior business leaders, HRBPs, and global learning teams to ensure learning strategies are business-led, future-focused, and aligned to enterprise priorities.

The role is function-agnostic, with a strong emphasis on leadership & professional development, core enterprise capabilities, and growth-enabling skills, ensuring the GIC is equipped to scale sustainably and deliver increasing enterprise value.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Strategic Business Partnership

Partner with senior business leaders and HRBPs to assess performance needs, capability gaps, and future skill requirements across the GIC.

Translate business strategy, talent priorities, and market insights into a clear, business-led learning agenda.

Anticipate future leadership and capability needs to support GIC growth, transformation, and enterprise integration.

Learning Strategy & Portfolio Leadership

  • Shape and prioritize the GIC learning portfolio, with emphasis on:
  • -Leadership & professional development
  • -Core enterprise capabilities
  • -Skills required for scale, agility, and innovation
  • Align investments to enterprise learning frameworks, standards, and global priorities.
  • Drive clarity on learning plans/curricula for various career stages, and value creation across the learning roadmap.

    • Solution Design & Development

  • Partner with Learning Architects to co-design enterprise-consistent learning journeys and academies.
  • Ensure learning is embedded in the flow of work and leverages modern approaches (digital, AI-enabled, blended, coaching).
  • Sponsor program design to ensure relevance, scalability, and business impact.
  • Broker and manage engagement with SMEs, vendors, and external partners.

    • Deployment & Change Leadership

  • Champion learning rollouts across the GIC, securing sponsorship and advocacy from business leaders.
  • Partner with Communications, HRBPs, and delivery teams to enable effective change management and adoption.
  • Drive shared ownership of learning outcomes between the business and learning teams.

    • Impact Measurement & Continuous Improvement

  • Co-own learning impact and business outcome measurement.
  • Establish and maintain a content governance framework for the Learning Management System (LMS) to ensure that all learning materials are accurate, up-to-date, and aligned with organizational standards.
  • Review performance data, adoption metrics, and ROI indicators to inform continuous improvement.
  • Build and share business impact stories and case studies that demonstrate the value of learning investments.

    • People Leadership & Capability Building

  • Lead, coach, and develop the GIC Learning COE team.
  • Set clear priorities, expectations, and ways of working aligned to enterprise learning standards.
  • Build team capability in strategic consulting, stakeholder partnership, and outcome-based learning design.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning within the team.

    • MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • 10+ years of experience in Learning, Talent Development, or HR, with strong business partnership exposure
  • Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams
  • Strong background in leadership development and enterprise capability building
  • Experience operating in complex, global, matrixed environments
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive alignment across stakeholders
  • Comfort leveraging digital, AI-enabled, and modern learning approaches
  • Strong analytical and storytelling skills to demonstrate impact and ROI

    • Critical Capabilities for Success

  • Strategic thinking and systems mindset
  • Executive-level stakeholder partnership and influence
  • Learning/Performance consulting and problem diagnosis
  • Change leadership and adoption focus
  • People leadership and talent development
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity and scale

    • COMPANY OVERVIEW

    We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.

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