Learning Business Partner R&D Academy

Learning Business Partner R&D Academy

When colleagues talk about you, they describe you as a true stakeholder manager on both operational and strategic levels. They recognize in you an entrepreneurial mindset who takes ownership. You bring people along in your vision and strategic planning in a very authentic and enthusiastic way. And you have a spike on learning and knowledge management topics. Is this appealing to you? Then keep on reading about the position of the Learning Business Partner (LBP).

Introduction to the job

The Learning business partner is a full-time position. In this role, you will partner with the business, cooperating closely with the College Lead and HR business partner to identify and prioritize business needs. You analyze and translate these needs into recommendations for appropriate possible Learning & Knowledge Management solutions. You work closely with the learning architects and solution designers who will support design and develop the solutions. Your challenge will be to focus on value creation for the business on the one hand, and at the same time prioritize and manage workload that should (and should not) enter the R&D academy teams towards solutioning.

Effective Learning & Knowledge Management (L&KM) is foundational to execute ASML’s strategy and growth ambitions. Shortening ‘time to knowledge and competence’ is a key priority. Early 2022 eight Academies were introduced, one of which is the R&D Academy. The R&D academy drives the L&KM roadmap for D&E (Development & Engineering), Technologies, and Business Lines.

The introduction of learning business partners was the next step in transforming the L&KM function in R&D (Research & Development), aiming to add more value to the business. Together with a dedicated college lead and HR business partner per business, it is a joint responsibility to create and optimize the L&KM solutions. These solutions are essential to create a continuous learning mindset which enables our workforce to maintain and grow the quality of business products.

Roles and responsibilities

In your role as a learning business partner you…

• Act as strategic partner to ensure that the business needs, critical to realize long-term strategy, are identified and translated into L&KM solutions
• Support the business College Lead in translating L&KM strategies to their L&KM portfolio
• Conduct annual and ongoing business needs analyses (BNA)
• Manage and monitor the business in implementing L&KM strategies that will enable success
• Contract and manage expectations towards internal stakeholders in the R&D Academy, college lead and subject matter experts in the business
• Identify barriers and enablers for learning application in the workplace and together with stakeholders create a plan to address these
• Build a network within and outside business to realize the L&KM goals
• Advise the business in identifying L&KM Key Performance Indicator metrics critical for business success to identify gaps and track learning impact
• Collaborate and monitor quality performance of external partners in design and delivery of L&KM solutions
• In collaboration with college lead and HR business partner, integrate a continuous learning mindset in the business’ culture
• Promote cross-sector collaboration
• Further develop and drive the L&KM development processes in the R&D Academy

Education and Experience

• Academic level of thinking
• Clear accomplishments on creating value for the business
• Experience with L&KM has a strong preference
• Experience in leading and influencing others

Personal skills

• You excel in building and maintaining relations
• You can manage a complex stakeholder field
• You are a great communicator
• You have matured advisory skills
• You can shift between operational, tactical, and strategic level
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset which is visible in you taking initiative & ownership
• You are very collaborative

Other information

You work closely together with the R&D academy, college lead and HR business partners. You can rely on three colleague Learning Business Partners. Other important stakeholders are the business MT, business learning representatives, R&D academy lead, technical competence owners, subject matter experts and leads. You are positioned within the R&D academy and report into the Group Lead L&KM development of the R&D academy.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.