Learning Business Partner - Audit & Assurance, Human Resources,

Your opportunity
Our people are our most important asset. Through an increasing use of blended learning solutions we are seeking to deliver a ground-breaking, agile solution that delivers outstanding results and exceeds their expectations.

Our business partners are the critical two-way link between the business and our Learning and Development teams. As a key member of the team, your role contributes true value to the bottom line and is recognised as essential for short and long-term strategic business planning.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?
For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Your role
Reporting to the Senior Business Partner, you will build trusted advisor relationships with senior managers in your business service line. Using your knowledge and experience of the core HR competencies coupled with your commercial awareness, you will translate your client's business needs into realistic and achievable plans that reflect the Learning Strategy and deliver impact. It's a fast paced and changing environment. Working closely with design and Delivery teams you will ensure the business agenda for technical training remains on track and on budget. You will be a role model for collaboration to those around you; influencing, coaching, motivating and challenging.

Responsibilities:

Planning

• Building trusted advisor relationships with business stakeholders in the business unit/Competency area.
• Understanding and driving implementation of a service-line/business unit-specific learning strategy aligned to business and learning CoE strategy.
• Lead the planning and participation of an annual learning needs analysis in business unit/Competency area, to develop an understanding of the current and future learning needs (including on-going projects, issues, business drivers, etc.), enabling greater clarity around key issues and the development of effective L&D solutions.
• Inputting into the annual budget process, leading for the business unit/Competency.
• Representing learning on relevant management committee structures within the business unit/Competency and influencing the agenda to ensure that the learning business case is fulfilled.

Management

• Bringing an expert view of the business area, and participating in Design & Delivery team projects to ensure business solutions are innovative and practical and aligned to business objectives.
• As an expert, lead on business unit/Competency projects, and represent the business area into projects for business-driven technical curriculum, sit in design and delivery project meetings to ensure alignment with client needs.
• Identify and manage/coordinate key business content developers to work within the Design & Delivery construct and ensure end product is fit for purpose and delivered within budget and timeframes.

Operational excellence

• Develop and provide meaningful management information to the business unit/Competency for learning consumption and quality/risk purposes and to measure the effectiveness of learning and support the achievement of its goals.
• Ensuring the business unit/Competency technical learning curriculum, and wider suite of development solutions, remains relevant and is able to adapt to changing business requirements.
• Collaborate closely with design and delivery teams to ensure the business agenda for technical training remains on track and aligned to the Learning business case goals

Your work, your choice
At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: You will be based at our London office, with an option of working from home two or three days a week

Work pattern: Fixed term contract opportunity - full-time

Your professional experience

• Degree at a Bachelor level preferable
• Professional training / HR development / education qualifications in relevant subject area
• Experience at manager level and have a proven track record in core HR competencies and exposure to the associated risks.
• Adept at communicating, influencing, coaching, educating, challenging and managing senior stakeholders. Strong financial management/commercial acumen.
• Ability to understand and contribute to the effective development of L&D and OD strategies while understanding the implications from a culture, business success and company practice standpoint.
• The ability to translate client business needs into realistic and achievable plans in collaboration with the learning CoE.
• The ability to provide coaching, work collaboratively, and consult effectively and independently with senior levels of the organisation.
• Proven team leadership and management skills and ability to create a high performing, motivating, supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills to address diverse organisational stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience or exposure to project management principles.

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