Learning Business Partner

Mars, Incorporated; Slough; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global company is seeking a Learning Business Partner in Slough to enhance organizational capability through targeted learning solutions. This role involves diagnosing skill gaps, assessing performance barriers, and collaborating with various stakeholders to implement effective learning strategies. Ideal candidates will have experience in learning needs analysis and be customer-centric. Competitive compensation and excellent learning support from day one will be provided.

Benefits

Best-in-class learning and development support

Industry competitive salary and benefits package

Company bonus

Responsibilities

• Use diagnosis methods to identify skill gaps impacting performance.
• Articulate performance expectations with input from stakeholders.
• Assess barriers to performance and specify learning needs.
• Contract resources required for solution creation and deployment.
• Represent business stakeholders during the development of learning solutions.
• Build strong working relationships within the organization.
• Champion the learning agenda and the company vision.
• Collaborate with other partners for efficiencies.

Skills

Learning Needs Analysis

Business Advisory & Learning Strategist

Customer Centricity

Functional Technical experience in the functions supported preferred

Job description

Job Description:

Our ability to adapt to our ever- changing environment, be more agile, and actively deepen and build new skill sets unlocks the capability to achieve more in the new world of work. The need to upskill and reskill is not only here to stay, but continuous learning has been cemented as a must-have first principle of our future workforce.

The Learning Business Partner works closely with Supply, R&D and Commercial stakeholders to align learning priorities, diagnose skills gaps, deliver skills insights, and represent the business stakeholder during the end-to-end process of defining, diagnosing, designing, and deploying learning needs.

What will be your key responsibilities?

• You will use quantitative and qualitative diagnosis methods to surface potential skill gaps impacting functional performance and talent pipeline readiness.
• You will articulate current and ideal performance based on input from business and senior stakeholders, learners, subject matter experts (SMEs), and external experts and thought leaders.
• You will assess barriers to ideal performance and specify learning needs and appropriate measures/KPIs.
• You will contract resources, including budget, required for solution creation & deployment.
• You will represent business stakeholders during the end-to-end process of defining, designing, deploying and program managing learning solutions.
• You will build a strong working relationships within the Mars University organisation.
• Champion the learning agenda and the Mars U vision.
• Collaborate with other Learning Business Partners to seek opportunities for efficiencies.

What skills are we looking for?

• Learning Needs Analysis.
• Business Advisory & Learning Strategist.
• Customer Centricity.
• Functional Technical experience in the functions supported preferred (Supply, Commercial, R&D).

What can you expect from Mars?

• Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
• Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.