NA Learning & Development Business Partner V

Partners with senior leaders and determines business unit, sales, or function business drivers and priorities to identify the capabilities needed by employees to achieve business growth, revenue, and profit objectives. Creates plans aligned with business strategy and priorities within established budgets and other constraints to develop employee capability to meet the business objectives more successfully, especially to address gaps in capability and/or performance. Provides business management expertise to measure business impact, return on investment, and other relevant metrics, ensuring business process execution from beginning to end.

Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function.

This is a teleworker position, open to all US.

Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with the most senior business managers to identify priorities and takes ownership for the whole learning experience.
• Strategically partners with client groups (e.g., business groups, defined company client groups, or functional groups) to identify development solutions that have the greatest business impact by leveraging intimate understanding of global business/function strategic direction.
• Creates strategic development plans aligned with business priorities for senior business managers.
• Manages the business group, defined company client group, or functional group development budget, required financial metrics, and business impact metrics.
• Partners with HR and the business to define and build transformation and change capabilities specific to the client groups.
• Leads creation and delivery of learning solutions that support the client group priorities.
• Defines and demonstrates business impact metrics and return on investment.

Education and Experience Required:

• First level university degree; advanced university degree preferred or equivalent experience.
• Typically 8+ years in a training or equivalent role.
• Typically 6+ years demonstrated presentation, facilitation, and consulting experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Superior planning, communication, change management, and cultural awareness skills, including financial and global business acumen.
• Superior ability to quickly lead the adoption of new, complex technology and concepts.
• Mastery in gauging differences in learning styles within an audience.
• Superior familiarity with learning content and training solutions.