Learning Business Partner

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

Job summary

A leading global company based in Slough is looking for a Learning Business Partner to align learning priorities with key stakeholders in Supply, R&D, and Commercial functions. The successful candidate will assess skill gaps, define learning needs, and deploy effective learning solutions. This role champions the learning agenda and involves collaborating across departments for continuous improvement. A competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package are offered, along with access to in-house learning resources.

Benefits

Best-in-class learning and development support

Industry competitive salary and benefits package

Access to in-house Mars University

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to identify learning needs and skill gaps.
• Ability to articulate business performance requirements and learning solutions.
• Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to implement learning strategies.

Responsibilities

• Use quantitative and qualitative methods to identify skill gaps.
• Articulate performance expectations with stakeholders.
• Specify learning needs and appropriate measures.
• Manage resources and budget for learning solutions.
• Build strong relationships within Mars University.
• Champion learning agenda and vision.

Skills

Learning Needs Analysis

Business Advisory & Learning Strategist

Customer Centricity

Functional Technical experience in Supply, Commercial, R&D

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.