Senior Learning Business Partner

Medica; Hopkins (MN); On-site; USD 79,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Medica seeks a Senior Learning Business Partner to translate business priorities into practical learning solutions across digital, on-demand, and facilitated formats. The role advises senior leaders and collaborates with HR and business partners to shape an integrated learning ecosystem.

Responsibilities include leading complex cross-functional initiatives, deploying scalable learning pathways, and measuring impact to drive performance outcomes for a large member population.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in learning and development, talent development, or related field.
• Strategic thinking with ability to connect business priorities to learning outcomes.
• Experience consulting with senior leaders and leading cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise priorities into capability strategies and recommendations.
• Build scalable learning ecosystems including digital and on-demand platforms.
• Consult with leaders and HR partners on complex capability and leadership needs.
• Lead cross-functional learning initiatives from discovery through evaluation and improvement.
• Influence stakeholders to improve alignment and drive outcomes.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Learning & development

Project leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Udemy

AI-enabled learning

Job description

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for.

We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration - because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm and every member feels valued.

The Senior Learning Business Partner serves as a business-focused learning and capability advisor, translating business priorities and workforce needs into practical, scalable solutions. The role leads complex learning initiatives across digital, on-demand, facilitated, and applied learning; advises senior leaders; and helps shape an integrated learning ecosystem. This role requires someone who can move comfortably between strategy and execution, seeing the bigger picture, bringing a clear point of view, and mobilizing stakeholders to turn ideas into meaningful capability and performance outcomes. Performs other duties as assigned.

Key Accountabilities

Translate Enterprise Priorities into Capability Strategies

• Partner with leaders to clarify business problems, capability gaps, and desired behavior or performance outcomes behind learning requests
• Connect business strategy, organizational priorities, and workforce needs to practical capability strategies and recommendations.
• Recommend learning solutions and priorities based on business impact, scale, risk, readiness, and available resources.

Build and Activate a Scalable Learning Ecosystem

• Shape learning approaches for digital and on-demand platforms, including Udemy, in partnership with learning operations
• Create scalable learning pathways, tools, and experiences that expand access to just-in-time development.
• Assess when to buy, build, curate, facilitate, or enable through leaders and HR business partners

Consult with and Facilitate for Leaders and Teams

• Serve as a senior learning advisor to leaders and HR partners on complex capability, leadership, and team-development need
• Facilitate high-impact leadership and team experiences where senior expertise adds value, adapting the approach to the audience and organizational context.
• Surface trade-offs, dependencies, risks, and decisions needed to move work forward

Lead Cross-Functional Learning Initiatives and Measure Impact

• Lead complex, cross-functional learning initiatives from discovery through implementation, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate across Talent Development, Talent Management, HR business partners, Change, vendors, and business stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Apply project discipline and practical measures of reach, adoption, application, and business impact to guide execution and refine solutions.

Bring Enterprise Perspective & Influence

• Bring an enterprise perspective across the learning portfolio, identifying connections, implications, risks, and opportunities.
• Apply expertise and organizational judgment to frame complex problems and bring forward clear recommendations.
• Connect work across initiatives and partners to improve alignment, surface dependencies, and move work forward through influence and collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and related experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in learning and development, talent development, organizational development, human resources, consulting, or a related field.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, business acumen, and enterprise perspective, with the ability to connect business priorities, organizational context, and workforce needs and translate insights into clear recommendations and action.
• Demonstrated ability to consult credibly with senior leaders, diagnose ambiguous business and capability needs, navigate differing perspectives, and recommend practical solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and move work from strategy through execution.
• Demonstrated ability to make progress through ambiguity, changing priorities, and incomplete information.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and scaling learning or capability solutions using digital, on-demand, or other technology-enabled approaches; experience with platforms such as Udemy or similar learning ecosystems and exposure to AI-enabled learning approaches are valued.
• Experience outside a traditional L&D center of expertise, such as in a business, operational, HR business partner, or consulting role, is valued.
• Prior leadership or significant experience leading through influence is preferred.

This position is an Office role, which requires an employee to work onsite at our Minnetonka, MN or Madison, WI office, on average, 3 days per week.

The full salary grade for this position is $78,700 - $134,900. While the full salary grade is provided, the typical hiring salary range for this role is expected to be between $78,700 - $118,020. Annual salary range placement will depend on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, education, work experience, applicable certifications and/or licensure, the position's scope and responsibility, internal pay equity and external market salary data. In addition to compensation, Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

The compensation and benefits information is provided as of the date of this posting. Medica's compensation and benefits are subject to change at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

Eligibility to work in the US: Medica does not offer work visa sponsorship for this role. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of application. Employment is contingent on verification of identity and eligibility to work in the United States.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer, where all qualified candidates receive consideration for employment indiscriminate of race, religion, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other protected characteristic.