L&D Business Partner

1 month ago

Altrincham, United Kingdom Informed Solutions Full time

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing international digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy.

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations.

Our growing business needs an experienced and outcomes-focused Learning & Development Business Partner. You will be professional, clear thinking, positive under pressure and results driven, with a ‘can do’ attitude that inspires respect from other leaders and professionals. We are looking to recruit a colleague who works well with others and shares the Company’s core professional values of innovation, excellence, and integrity.

Personal Qualities

  • An engaging and inspiring communications style and relationship management approach that is friendly and approachable and connects with a wide audience, from graduate associates to board level executives, senior clients and external stakeholders.
  • A passion for helping people learn and grow and a positive, open personality with a “can do” attitude.
  • Thoroughness and a meticulous attention to detail.
  • Ability to remain calm and confident, responding logically and decisively under pressure in a fast-paced, growing organisation.
  • Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask questions and comfortable with being challenged.

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Your role as a Learning & Development Business Partner is to work closely with our Main and Technical Boards to engage and develop our high performing teams (based in our offices in Manchester, London and Edinburgh) and international partners.

You will be excited by the opportunity to:

  • Set & deliver our training strategy both domestically for our staff and internationally for our partners and work with Senior Directors to develop and implement the strategy.
  • Be a trusted learning expert for our business, including championing our staff development programme with staff, potential hires, partners and clients.
  • Take responsibility for the continuous investment in our people by owning the full learning cycle of InformedACADEMY© (our in-house staff development programme), supporting our people and our clients to build the skills, capabilities, and insights they need to be successful in their roles and to stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital world. This includes supporting staff through our Career Development framework, covering responsibilities, accountabilities and learning pathways.
  • Work with our business and technical experts to develop creative and engaging face to face and e-learning training modules, using innovative ideas and our modern and flexible Leaning Management System to bring training sessions to life, gathering feedback and continually improving the value of our training to the business.

 

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience in developing and delivering Learning and Development strategies and initiatives ideally within a professional services organisation.
  • Experience working with Senior Directors & Board Members and leading business change.
  • Current knowledge of effective learning and development methods.
  • Commitment to Continued Professional Development with a strong business acumen and solid relevant experience of relationship building and implementation of learning interventions.
  • Understanding of different learning styles and methods, design, and delivery experience.
  • Experience in evaluating and assessing the effectiveness of learning programmes and producing performance dashboards.
  • Ideally CIPD qualified or working towards (or equivalent qualification).

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

  • InformedACADEMY© – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
  • Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual’s need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
  • Hybrid working*
  • Private Health Care Cover*
  • Generous life assurance cover*
  • Gym Membership*
  • Monthly office lunch
  • Onsite massage sessions
  • 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
  • Sabbatical Leave Scheme*
  • Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
  • Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
  • Company Pension Contribution
  • Profit Share Scheme*
  • Payment of professional subscriptions
  • Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
  • Salary Sacrifice scheme*

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of. 

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.

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