Learning Business Partner

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, but continuous 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. Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL®, and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 140,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.