Learning Business Partner

Capgemini; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Learning Business Partner, where you'll design and implement innovative learning strategies that drive business success. This role is perfect for those passionate about fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. You'll work closely with senior leaders and HR to create impactful learning solutions that support diverse talent development and career progression. With a hybrid working model, you'll enjoy flexibility while being part of a dynamic team dedicated to making a positive impact. This is an exciting opportunity to grow professionally in an inclusive environment that values diversity and ethical practices.

Benefits

Wellbeing Programs

Mental Health Support

Flexible Working Hours

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• Passionate about learning and development with strong communication and consulting skills.
• Ability to manage change and deliver initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop learning strategies aligned with business priorities.
• Manage key stakeholder relationships and facilitate learning initiatives.

Skills

Learning and Development

Communication Skills

Consulting Skills

Financial Acumen

Data Insight Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Project Management

Problem Solving

Job description

Learning Business Partner

About the job you’re considering

You will design and develop the learning and development strategy in partnership with the senior leadership team and key stakeholders. To be successful you will bring fresh thinking to our learning solutions to ensure they deliver a leading-edge experience and maximise learning impact for our people. Be a trusted advisor to the business and HR community on all L&D related matters.

You will drive a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing. Being commercially comfortable you will manage the Learning and Development budget within broader framework of business KPIs, maximising the use of virtual and blended offerings provided by Capgemini University.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including:
identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your Role

As Learning Business Partner, you will report into the UK Head of learning and work with HR Leader and Business Leaders to evolve a learning strategy that supports the business priorities and delivers outstanding results. Supporting the talent agenda will form an important part of the role, developing plans for diverse talent to progress careers and support career growth and retention at every level within Capgemini. You will work closely with the HR team on People Transformation & Talent initiatives becoming a trusted expert who can co-create effective and agile learning solutions with the business, to deliver impact and drive best practice in Learning and Development.

You will be an important part of the wider Capgemini Learning and Development Team with other local, regional, and global L&D professionals providing an opportunity to share regional and global best practice, and drive and contribute to our collective capability in Learning & Development. This network gives you additional scope to grow personally and professionally and to identify ways that we can benefit from innovation, scale, and re-use across the Capgemini business.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini equity, diversity and inclusion is part of everyday life, and will be part of your working reality. We have built an inclusive and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• You will be passionate about learning and development and a role model for continuous Development & Collaboration, you will quickly become a recognised expert and trusted advisor employing excellent communication and consulting skills to articulate how L&D can support our strategic business objectives.
• You will be able to deal with ambiguity and show resilience in a fast paced and complex environment with the need to manage constant change. The role requires the ability to plan and deliver initiatives in line with targets and being comfortable with reporting and analytics to demonstrate impact and track progress.
• A high achievement drive, with a positive, can-do attitude showing enthusiasm for work and commitment to delivering excellence is imperative with a proactive and creative approach to problem solving.
• As with all Business Partnering roles, the need for strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to listen, communicate, influence, and engage with different levels of people within the organisation will be required.
• You will need Strong Financial acumen and good data insight skills.

As a trusted advisor and expert, you will need to manage key stakeholder relationships including:

• Ability to function as part of management and leadership teams and develop sustainable relationships at middle and top management level and use them to proactively help in the management of the business.
• Proactively gather insights on the stakeholder needs and helping them to identify how and whether learning can best support these needs.
• Capable of giving persuasive formal presentations to management and leadership teams.
• Ability to facilitate, document and drive actions from level Talent Boards and workshops.
• Project manage content for learning initiatives on People Transformation.
• Build a sustainable emerging talent strategy for the business, supporting the apprentice and graduate development offering to and quality experience for new joiners.
• Represents self and Capgemini in external professional bodies thereby enhancing our reputation.
• Develop and maintain an external network in own area.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks. There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.

There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want ‘ mean for you?

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
You will be joining one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, as recognised by Ethisphere for 12 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a diverse collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem.

Ref. code: 160757

Posted on: 4 Feb 2025

Experience Level: Experienced Professionals