He began his career at
Tata International, the Tata Group's arm for products and services offered abroad. In June 1999, he became the managing director of the Group's retail arm
Trent, which was founded by his mother. By this time, Trent had acquired the department store Littlewoods International and changed its name to
Westside. Tata developed Westside, turning it into a profitable venture. In 2003, he was appointed the director of
Titan Industries and of
Voltas. In 2010, it was announced that Tata was to become managing director of Tata International, the company dealing with the overseas business of the $70 billion conglomerate, raising speculation that he was being groomed to succeed Ratan Tata as head of the Tata Group. However, in 2011, his brother-in-law
Cyrus Mistry was announced as Ratan Tata's successor . In October 2016, Mistry was removed as the chairman of Tata Sons and Ratan Tata took over as the chairman of the group for four months until February 2017. Noel Tata was made vice chairman of
Titan Company in 2018, and in February 2019 was inducted onto the board of the
Sir Ratan Tata Trust. On 29 March 2022, he was appointed vice chairman of
Tata Steel. ==Personal life and family==