L&D Business Partner

Your role: As an L&D Business Partner, you will be responsible for proactively partnering with all areas of the business, to ensure that all departments receive the learning and development interventions that they need to achieve their strategic goals. Key relationships include working strategically with the HR Directors to prioritise and plan learning interventions to support the delivery of business goals.

Your team: We are the Learning & Talent Development team - a team that creates and delivers innovative learning experiences for the people at News. We are committed to creating learning initiatives that support the business in achieving its goals, developing talent, and maximising individual, team, and company performance. This is a fast-paced department where no two days will be the same.

Day to day you will:

• Collaborate with HR Business Partners to respond to business learning needs.


• Ensure the effective delivery of learning interventions.


• Support the digital upskilling and transformation at News UK.


• Curate and design in-house content.


• Implement external best practice to create creative and innovative training solutions.


• Ensure D&I is at the heart of all our learning interventions.


• Workshop, team day and learning delivery as needed.


• Continuously evaluate, adapt and develop programs to keep them fresh and relevant.


• Work with the L&D team to deliver one consistent and impactful message, contributing to the L&D excellence brand.
  
  A passion for L&D.


• An in-depth knowledge and experience in designing and delivering learning interventions that underpin behavioural and cultural change.


• A commercial mindset, demonstrating an ability to deliver programs that meet business needs.


• A good understanding of learning theories and how these translate into learning solutions including the effective use of learning technologies.


• Confidence, resilience and enthusiasm.


• An influential communicator with the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
  
  We are: News UK & Ireland is a phenomenal company full of talented, dedicated, and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever growing organisation with a real passion for quality content and storytelling. Our digital and print products include some of the most powerful media brands in the world, reaching over 30 million people each week. Our brands include national newspapers - The Sun, The Times, and The Sunday Times. Radio Stations under the Wireless Group umbrella, comprising of talkSPORT, talkRADIO, Virgin Radio and several regional radio stations.


Life at News

At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual's potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women's Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a 'Bikes for Work' scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.


• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;



• 25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;



• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;



• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.