Learning & Development Specialist

At Nestlé Health Science, we believe that nutrition, science, and wellness must merge, not collide. Here, we embrace the intrinsic connections of these three pillars, harnessing their collective strength to empower healthier lives. Our broad product portfolio includes renowned brands like Garden of Life®, Nature's Bounty®, Vital Proteins®, Orgain®, Nuun®, BOOST®, Carnation Breakfast Essentials®, Peptamen®, Compleat Organic Blends®, and more. We also have extensive pharmaceutical expertise, offering innovative medicines that aim to prevent, manage, and treat gastrointestinal and metabolic-related diseases. At Nestlé Health Science, we bring our best for better lives. Our people are challenged to bring fresh, diverse views and make bold moves to empower healthier lives through nutrition. We know brilliant ideas can come from anyone, anywhere. Here we embrace the entrepreneurial spirit and collaborate with teams that champion focused and forward thinking. We are committed to fostering professional growth and celebrating the achievements of our people along the way. We offer dynamic career paths, robust development, opportunities to learn from talented colleagues around the globe, and benefits that support physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Join us to innovate for impact and reimagine the future of health and nutrition for patients and consumers. The Specialist, Learning & Development supports the design, coordination, and delivery of learning and talent initiatives for Holistic Health. This role partners closely with the Director, Learning & Organizational Development, Manager,L&OD, HR Business Partners, and cross-functional stakeholders to help execute programs that build organizational capability, strengthen employee development, and support business performance. The Specialist helps administer and optimize the learning roadmap through LMS management, training coordination, reporting, and learner support, while also contributing to onboarding, functional learning, leadership development, compliance training, and special talent programs. This role ensures learning operations and talent processes are organized, responsive, and measurable,leveraging enterprise standards, digital tools, and data to support an effective learner experience. As an individual contributor and collaborative partner, the Specialist translates strategy into consistent execution, scalable processes and practical solutions that support capability building and continuous improvement. This is a remote role with anticipated travel to our offices in Bridgewater, NJ and Long Island, NY. Top consideration will be given to candidates local to our corporate offices. Key Responsibilities: ENTERPRISE L&OD STRATEGY & GOVERNANCE Support L&OD team to operationalize and execute the Holistic Health L&OD strategy and annual operating plan aligned to business priorities, culture, and leadership expectations.Implement governance, standards, and measurement for learning and development solutions (needs analysis, design, delivery, evaluation, and ROI/impact tracking). LEARNING MANAGEMENT ADMINISTRATION Manage the administration of the Learning Management System (LMS) for Holistic Health to make training courses available to learners, schedule courses, track completion of courses and maintain employee transcripts.Coordinate LMS administration with the affiliates for Essential Compliance Training.Maintain complete records of all events related transactions, collaterals, and materials.Provide LMS support governance, troubleshoot issues including course functionality, completion status and transcript issues. Identify the best resolution and research alternative resolutions, engaging providers as neededPrepare and share learning metrics with and recommend changes to programs and/or program deliver LEARNING PROGRAMS: Support Director L&OD and Manager L&OD with by designing, creating, and executing functional learning.Work collaboratively with key stakeholders and cross functional partners for talent/performance management programming and execution.Support program development and implementation for special programs (e.g. such as mentorship, internship, aspiring leader program). Work collaboratively with Nestle Nutrition and Health and/or NUSA Center of Competence to rollout and implement compliance and essential training programs. WORKFORCE INSIGHTS & CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT Leverage AI powered learning and productivity tools including ChatGPT, Microsoft Co-Pilot, Minty, Mural to design innovative training solutions, streamline content development, enhance learner engagement and driver operational efficiency across learning programs.Utilize digital collaboration and data management platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft forms and related enterprise tools to manage learning resources, collect learner feedback, track metrics and support scalable training operations.Integrates interactive and self-directed learning technolo