The Company

At Air Products, we've been helping our customers to become more productive, energy efficient and sustainable for more than 75 years. With approximately 15,000 employees and operations in 50 countries, we serve customers across over 30 industries from food and beverage to medical, energy and transportation. We supply a unique portfolio of atmospheric and process gases, equipment and services. Now is an exciting time to join this global business with robust growth plans and £15bn worth of global business, this is a company that’s not only here to stay, it’s going places!

Global Business Learning Manager - Based in Surrey, UK, Barcelona, Spain or Diegem, Belgium

This role must be based in one of the above corporate locations with flexibility to work remotely at times (completely during the COVID restrictions).

We’ve got an exciting opportunity to join the business as a key member of the Learning and Capability Development Team, accountable for developing the business learning strategies and framework aligning with company’s overall talent strategy to support structured and continuous learning. The role works closely with HR partners, business leaders and Air Product University (APU) college leads to understand and analyse learning needs to provide sustainable learning solutions that apply regionally or globally.

The role holder will review, propose and drive learning strategies. They will own overall design, development and delivery of the learning programs necessary to enhance existing programs, and to create effective learning solutions to meet immediate and long-term business goals. This role will also work together with team members to ensure ongoing training and development meets current field needs, benchmarks with market best practices, and is delivered effectively using adult learning principles. They will create a functional catalogue to equip our employees with essential functional learning within their areas but which also opens up multiple possibilities for their future development and succession readiness. The incumbent will have delivered in a similar role within an Oil and Gas or manufacturing setting and thus will understand the technical elements required for a successful corporate university setting. This role will be an exciting opportunity to take that experience, transforming Air Products' current provision into a modern and future fit programme which underpins our internal succession plans.

 They will link inextricably with the business, gaining their operational credibility while being a senior member of the Hr strategic delivery team. Their implementations will be guided by and enhance the HR transformation roadmap.Essentially we require not just a strategic technician to deliver a modern learning framework, we envisage an L&D professional with the gravitas to deliver senior leadership training programmes to our top tier leaders.

DIMENSIONS:

The scope of the role oversees the global framework and strategy of structured business learning, connects closely with other regions to understand the needs and application, to ensure global consistency.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

 •Develop and drive business learning strategy globally based on understanding of company’s product portfolios, business processes and business goals (global and regional), to provide structured and continuous learning experience for employees.

•Guide to develop capability-based business learning initiatives / programs leveraging various approach such as, facilitating workshop, microlearning events, e-learning and other blended learning methods to support business objectives.

•Develop and manage the APU governance framework to deliver structured learning path that meets business goals and align with the company’s learning strategy

•Liaise with business leaders and APU College leads to review needs and propose blended learning solutions or recommend learning curriculum through regular discussions, ensuring aligning with company learning strategy and strategic business imperatives while leveraging all resources

•Set up and manage process and policies for learning contents creation and curriculum management, through collaboration with the LearnEx Administration team to ensure all processes and guidelines are met

•Organize and host Air Products University regular communications, share and consolidate feedback and suggestions for continuous improvement in business learning, make necessary updates in processes to enhance learning experience

•Support instructional design and delivery for learning events upon requests by L&D team

•Collaborate with HR Partners in all regions to understand commercial talent development needs to meet business goals

•Guide to conduct regular analysis of business learning effectiveness to design necessarily follow up events as needed

•Respond to MyHR (HR Service Team) inquiry ticket concerning Business Learning questions when assigned to answer from LearnEx team

Person specification:

 •An established career in full learning cycle experience from consulting, design, delivery and post learning follow up, especially in the commercial / business learning domain in an industry or consulting environment, former experience as a commercial professional (Sales, Business Development) is a plus

•Ability to effectively lead and participate with cross-functional teams to design and implement training

•Poses high aptitude to write in explanatory and procedural styles for multiple audiences, able to translate complex problems and concepts in training

•Results-oriented with a strong sense of urgency and overall objective, self-starter with a high level of motivation and drive

•A history of successful interaction and influence with all levels of stakeholders including executives, senior business and operations leaders, and senior HR leaders

•A global-minded individual with hands-on experience in design and executing projects and learning programs

•Experience in a large, highly-matrix, global or at least, European organization

•Bachelor’s degree is required, masters or MBA degree is desirable

•Due to the footprint of the role any additional European languages spoken would be a great advantage. Our operational language is English, so for the right candidate this is not essential.

•Previous knowledge of the Oil and Gas industry, Energy, Engineering or Manufacturing sector is essential.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.