Learning and Development Business Partner

Location: Cambridgeshire

Your new role We are exclusively partnering with a high-profile, growing organisation seeking an experienced Learning & Development professional to lead a 12-month project and accelerate the next stage of its learning and development journey.

This newly created standalone role will focus on bringing greater structure, consistency and measurable impact to key learning initiatives, including leadership and management development programmes, onboarding, and capability building across a diverse workforce. Working with the existing LMS, you will play a key role in delivering the L&D strategy while identifying emerging business needs through stakeholder engagement across multiple sites. You'll design, deliver and implement scalable learning solutions, collaborate with external providers on leadership development programmes, and ensure learning frameworks are effectively embedded across the UK and Ireland.

What you'll need to succeed They're looking for a commercially minded L&D professional who can work autonomously, build strong relationships with stakeholders, and demonstrate tangible learning outcomes.

Experience with in manufacturing, logistics, distribution, or another operational environment would be highly beneficial, as would experience supporting diverse employee groups and developing practical learning solutions that meet a broad range of needs.

Key requirements:

Proven L&D experience, ideally within a medium to large, complex, multi-site organisation Strong learning design, facilitation and evaluation skills Experience coordinating and delivering leadership and management development programmes Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills Comfortable working across multiple locations and utilising LMS platforms A continuous improvement mindset with a curious and proactive approach CIPD and/or L&D qualifications are desirable, although candidates qualified through experience are equally encouraged to apply What you'll get in return This home-based role will involve weekly travel to sites across East of England and the Midlands, as well as other locations nationwide.

This is an excellent opportunity to shape and deliver learning solutions that will leave a lasting legacy across a growing and ambitious organisation.

Benefits include 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays, a car allowance, life assurance, an online discount platform, and enhanced maternity and paternity leave. Please contact Louisa London, Business Director for HR - East Anglia & Essex for more information. Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers.

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