Learning Business Partner

Wm. Wrigley Jr.; Slough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-known global candy manufacturer is seeking a Learning Business Partner in Slough. The role involves identifying skill gaps, collaborating with stakeholders, and promoting a learning culture. You will design and develop learning solutions while representing business needs effectively. The ideal candidate will possess strong analysis skills and experience in functional areas such as Supply, Commercial, or R&D. A competitive salary and benefits package, including a company bonus, are offered.

Benefits

Best-in-class learning and development support

Access to Mars University

Industry competitive salary and benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in aligning learning priorities and diagnosing skills gaps.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and represent business needs.

Responsibilities

• Use diagnosis methods to identify skill gaps.
• Articulate current and ideal performance metrics.
• Assess barriers to performance and define learning needs.
• Contract resources for learning solution deployment.
• Represent stakeholders in designing and managing learning solutions.
• Build relationships within the Mars University organization.
• Champion the learning agenda.

Skills

Learning Needs Analysis

Business Advisory & Learning Strategist

Customer Centricity

Functional Technical experience

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, butcontinuous 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.