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Airbus

Competence & Learning Business Partner

Location:  Lisbon, Portugal
Location flexibility:  1 office day / week, 2 office days / week, 3 office days / week, 4 office days / week
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Job Description

Job Description:

Responsibilities - your mission

The jobholder will be reporting functionally to the Ho Learning Airbus Portugal and operationally to Ho Operations Academy Procurement domain.

  • Strong stakeholder management. Act as focal point for Procurement domain for divisions (Airbus Helicopters, Airbus Defense & Space), regions (US, Canada, China, etc) and subs (Airbus Atlantic, etc)
  • Collection and analysis of business priorities and needs
    • Build a good understanding of the business, local needs and strategies
    • Identify and cascade future trends to domain focal points (Purchasing, Supply Chain and ordering, Scheduling, Logistics and Transport)
    • Act as key enabler of company priorities by influencing the organisations, leveraging action plans, pushing for collaboration cross divisionally, cross functionally and with all relevant stakeholders
  • Jobs and competencies
    • Anticipate the impacts of global trends on jobs and competences
    • Align jobs and competencies management transversally
    • Anticipate necessary adaptation of employees’ competences, allowing a pipeline of appropriate competences in support of business strategy.
    • Provide the big picture by delivering a consistent view of competences required and related / corrective actions
    • Support domain focal points in managing jobs and competencies (mapping & monitoring, continuous improvement)
  • Training
    • Ensure alignment of training catalogue, support updates if needed
    • Contribute to the creation of common learning, development, awareness and knowledge solutions to deploy a continuous learning and self-directed development culture for all of AIRBUS
    • Support learning deployment when needed
    • Develop learning solutions when needed
  • Ad-hoc projects as need arises (eg communication, supplier performance, tools improvement, KPIs)

Requirements - our ideal candidate will have (see guiding questions below / degree, skills, languages, tools...)

  • Experience in L&D, business oriented
  • Digital and innovation skills and mindset (experience with Google Workspace & Gemini is a plus)
  • Good communication skills and assertiveness
  • Fluency in English (other languages are a plus)
  • Capacity to manage stakeholders and open doors
  • High level of autonomy
  • Positive, strategic and data-driven mindset
  • Capacity and willingness to work in a team
  • Knowledge of Procurement and/ or operations is a plus

Occasional travels in Europe

Benefits - what’s in it for you (black text agreed centrally, feel free to add anything specific for your area in blue)

  • Diverse career opportunities within Airbus European core countries or in other regions around the world.
  • A hybrid working model, allowing you to combine onsite and offsite work.
  • A modern office, well connected to public transportation.
    Wide network of enthusiastic and knowledgeable professionals in different functions
  • An intense and exciting onboarding experience
  • Opportunity to contribute to activities that really matter and have direct impact on daily job of thousands of people

This job requires an awareness of any potential compliance risks and a commitment to act with integrity, as the foundation for the Company’s success, reputation and sustainable growth.

Company:
Airbus Portugal SA

Employment Type:
Permanent
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Experience Level:
Professional

Job Family:
HR Expertise

By submitting your CV or application you are consenting to Airbus using and storing information about you for monitoring purposes relating to your application or future employment. This information will only be used by Airbus.
Airbus is committed to achieving workforce diversity and creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation or religious belief.

Airbus is, and always has been, committed to equal opportunities for all. As such, we will never ask for any type of monetary exchange in the frame of a recruitment process. Any impersonation of Airbus to do so should be reported to emsom@airbus.com .

At Airbus, we support you to work, connect and collaborate more easily and flexibly. Wherever possible, we foster flexible working arrangements to stimulate innovative thinking.

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