Case Study: TATA Steel unlocks 165,000+ hours and boosts employee engagement with Gloat's internal talent marketplace

TATA Steel unleashes the collective possibilities of their people and puts skills at the center of their career development strategy with Gloat's Talent Marketplace

Tata Steel, a global steelmaker with about 165,000 employees, needed to scale career development and unlock the full potential of its workforce across five continents. To put skills at the center of careers and surface hidden capacity, Tata Steel partnered with Gloat and launched an AI-driven internal talent marketplace branded stepUP.

Using Gloat’s talent marketplace, Tata Steel enabled self-directed career matching, staffed nearly 1,000 projects and unlocked more than 165,000 hours of hidden capacity; the platform reached 81% adoption and drove a +10-point lift in employee engagement within months. Gloat’s solution—supported by leadership buy-in, focused communications and tailored configuration—produced internal ambassadors, higher career scores and measurable gains in organizational agility.

Tata Steel

Atrayee Sanyal

VP Human Resources