Learning Business Partner

Be part of progress

Are you a strategic stakeholder manager with excellent communication skills and a change management mindset? Do you understand that learning is a crucial component for ASML's growth? Then the role of Learning Business Partner (LBP) might be perfect for you!

Introduction to the job

As a Learning Business Partner, you will work closely with the business, the College Lead, and the HR Business Partner to identify and prioritize learning and knowledge management needs. You will translate these needs into strategic recommendations and solutions. You will collaborate with learning architects and solution designers to develop and implement these solutions. Your challenge will be to create value for the business while managing the workload that enters the R&D Academy teams.

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

• Strategic Partner: Identify and translate long-term strategic business needs into learning and knowledge management solutions, and support the College Lead in developing a comprehensive L&KM portfolio.

• Business Needs Analysis: Analyze to understand and prioritize business needs, and manage the implementation of L&KM strategies.

• Stakeholder Management: Contract and manage expectations of internal stakeholders within the R&D Academy, College Lead, and subject matter experts, while building a network within and outside the business to achieve L&KM goals.

• KPI Metrics and Quality Monitoring: Advise the business in identifying critical L&KM performance indicators to track learning impact, and monitor the quality of external partners in designing and delivering L&KM solutions.

• Continuous Learning Culture: Integrate a continuous learning mindset into the business culture and promote cross-sector collaboration.

• L&KM Process Development: Further develop and drive L&KM processes within the R&D Academy, ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Analytical and Negotiation Skills: Utilize analytical skills to connect information within ASML, and employ negotiation skills to achieve quick wins and understand relationships between departments.

Education and Experience

• Academic level of thinking

• Minimum 5 years of experience as learning business partner or similar role

• Able to create a vision and strategy and to drive changes and implementing these within a various field of stakeholders

• Experience in leading and influencing others with an Entrepreneurial mindset: Initiative and ownership.

• Experience and/or affinity with learning and knowledge management

Skills

• Excellent communication skills.

• Ability to manage a complex stakeholder field.

• Building and maintaining relationships and collaborative

• Strategic thinking and acting.

• Analytical skills: Connecting information within ASML.

• Negotiation skills: Achieving quick wins and understanding relationships between departments.

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.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

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.