Learning Business Partner

BlackLine International Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackLine seeks an experienced Learning Business Partner to act as the embedded L&D presence for the EMEA region. This role localises, launches, and delivers global programmes, partnering with leaders and HRBPs while avoiding global strategy development or measurement frameworks.

The ideal candidate blends strong facilitation with stakeholder influence, embraces AI-enabled learning, and travels up to 20% to support regional delivery and events across the UK and beyond.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR/OD/Ed/Business or related field
• 8+ years in Learning & Development or Talent Development
• Experience localising global programmes for regional audiences
• Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and written communication

Responsibilities

• Be the L&D face to EMEA and translate regional needs to central hub
• Localise and deliver globally designed programmes for EMEA audiences
• Own regional onboarding and leadership development delivery
• Facilitate workshops and leadership sessions across markets
• Model AI-first ways of working and use AI tools daily
• Coordinate regional delivery logistics with facilitators and vendors

Skills

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

AI fluency

Executive communication

Workshop design & delivery

Cross-cultural collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/OD/Ed/Business

Advanced degree

Tools

Workday

Udemy

Claude or AI tools

Job description

Make Your Mark:

We are seeking an experienced Learning Business Partner to serve as the embedded L&D presence for BlackLine's EMEA region. This individual-contributor role is the regional half of a global hub-and-spoke learning model: a central design and measurement hub builds programmes once for global scale, and this role localises, launches, and delivers them across EMEA. Reporting to the Senior Director, Talent Development & Engagement, the ideal candidate pairs strong facilitation and stakeholder skills with the judgement to operate independently as the primary L&D face to EMEA business leaders — without owning global strategy, programme design, or measurement frameworks, which sit with the central hub. The ideal candidate is also genuinely AI-fluent — someone who uses AI tools as a natural part of their daily work and is prepared to model that for EMEA audiences as the function rolls out programming across the enterprise.

You’ll Get To:

• Be the L&D Face to EMEA: Serve as the primary point of contact between BlackLine's global Talent Development organisation, our EMEA GM and Leadership Council, business leaders and EMEA HR Business Partners, translating regional needs into requests the central design and measurement hub can act on.
• Localise and Deliver Global Programmes: Adapt and deliver globally-designed learning programmes — including leadership and manager development, onboarding, AI-fluency, and capability-building curricula — for EMEA audiences, using the train-the-trainer kits, facilitation guides, and content built centrally by the Senior Learning Experience Designer.
• Own Regional Onboarding & Development Delivery: Lead in-region delivery of EMEA onboarding and manager/leadership development programming, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution across the region's markets and cultures.
• Facilitate with Impact: Lead workshops, leadership sessions, and regionally-tailored learning experiences — including certification programmes, AI-enablement sessions, and emerging-capability curricula as they roll out — that resonate with EMEA's diverse business context.
• Model AI-First Ways of Working: Actively use AI tools in your own day-to-day work — programme localisation, facilitation prep, stakeholder communication, and reporting — and bring that practice visibly to EMEA. As the L&D function’s regional face, you are a proof point that AI-augmented work is how BlackLine’s people function team operates.
• Drive Platform Adoption: Champion regional adoption and engagement with BlackLine's learning technology stack (e.g., Workday Learning, Udemy), partnering with the Learning Operations & Measurement Manager on rollout and usage in EMEA.
• Report Against Enterprise Metrics: Track and report EMEA-specific learning outcomes using the measurement framework and dashboard owned by the Learning Operations & Measurement Manager, surfacing regional insights and localisation gaps back to the hub — rather than building measurement frameworks independently.
• Coordinate Regional Delivery Logistics: Support day-to-day scheduling and coordination with regional facilitators and in-market training vendors on delivery logistics, working within vendor relationships and budgets that are owned and negotiated centrally.
• Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate closely with the central L&D hub, HR Business Partners and the wider People & Culture team to ensure a cohesive employee development journey across EMEA.

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organisational Development, Education, Business, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in Learning & Development, Talent Development, or as an HR/Learning Business Partner, including experience supporting or partnering with regional or international teams inside a global, matrixed organisation.
• Demonstrated experience localising and delivering learning or leadership development programmes designed by a central or global team, rather than building programmes independently.
• Proven track record of consulting with and influencing senior business leaders in a matrixed, distributed environment — without formal management authority over them.
• Exceptional facilitation, presentation, and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire diverse audiences across multiple EMEA markets and cultures.
• Working knowledge of adult learning principles and instructional design fundamentals — sufficient to adapt and localise existing content, not to design new curricula from scratch.
• Comfortable coordinating day-to-day logistics with external facilitators and training vendors, without owning vendor selection, contracts, or budget.
• Proficiency with HR technology, modern learning platforms, and AI-enabled tools (experience with Workday, Peakon, Udemy, and Claude or comparable AI tools is a strong plus).
• Genuine AI fluency: You use AI tools as a real part of your daily workflow — for research, drafting, localisation, and prep — not as a novelty.
• You are comfortable working inside an AI-native function and are prepared to help EMEA colleagues do the same.
• Collaborative, low-ego operator who builds trust quickly across cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
• Ability to travel up to 20% within the UK and internationally to support in-region delivery, leadership events, and team moments.

Thrive at BlackLine Because You Are Joining:

A technology-based company with a sense of adventure and a vision for the future. Every door at BlackLine is open. Just bring your brains, your problem-solving skills, and be part of a winning team at the world's most trusted name in Finance Automation!

A culture that is kind, open, and accepting. It's a place where people can embrace what makes them unique, and the mix of cultural backgrounds and varying interests cultivates diverse thought and perspectives. A culture where BlackLiner's continued growth and learning is empowered.

BlackLine recognizes that the ways we work and the workplace itself has shifted. We innovate in a workplace that optimizes a combination of virtual and in-person interactions to maximize collaboration and nurture our culture.

• BlackLine offers a wide variety of professional development seminars and inclusive affinity groups to celebrate and support our diversity.
• Candidates who live within a reasonable commute to one of our offices will work in the office at least 3 days a week.

Equal Opportunity Employer

BlackLine is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, age, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, ancestry, color, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, medical condition, genetic information, or any other protected class or category recognized by applicable equal employment opportunity or other similar laws.

Accommodations

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