Learning & Performance Business Partner

Job Description

What You’ll Do

You will act as a strategic learning and performance partner to business and HR leaders, shaping and delivering initiatives that build future-ready skills & capabilities, accelerate talent growth, and drive high performance through learning and embedding initiatives within teams. You will balance strategic influence with hands-on programme management, ensuring talent development priorities translate into meaningful business impact. You will work in partnership with the Vodafone Learning Organisation, HR Centres of Expertise and suppliers to leverage and tailor solutions for Vodafone Ireland.

Key Accountabilities

1. Business Partnering

• Partner with Business Leaders, Vodafone Learning Organisation, COEs and HR Business partners to understand strategic priorities, diagnose capability gaps, and translate needs into clear talent and development actions.
• Translate the capability gaps identified into clear, actionable programme plans, from learning to embedding. Act as a trusted advisor — supporting, challenging, and influencing stakeholders to make evidence-based talent decisions.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition to identify opportunities that strengthen internal mobility and support career progression across vertical and lateral pathways.

2.Talent Management

• Build and own the plan for Talent evolution in your business areas, ensuring talent development is central to each business area’s priorities, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
• Enable people leaders to understand their role in supporting on our talent, facilitate high quality talent reviews, ensuring clear actions, succession depth, and strong follow through on development commitments.
• Shape and present business cases for new talent or development programmes aligned to strategic needs and enable greater focus on growth experiences.
• Monitor and support our talent management agenda to enable greater feedback culture within the business to allow people and teams to operate at their best.
• Partner with Vodafone globally to unlock potential opportunities for Ireland Talent, enabling greater growth experiences, mobility opportunities and career progression.

3. Capability & Learning

• Design, build, and deliver upskilling and reskilling programmes that develop critical future focused skills, in partnership with vendors and areas of expertise
• Manage the end-to-end delivery of targeted learning, skills, and capability programmes, working closely with internal experts and external vendors.
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of learning solutions — improving content, delivery, and adoption based on data and feedback.
• Foster a continuous learning environment that drives high engagement, practical application, and measurable uplift in capability.

4. Performance Culture

• Enable embedding and adoption of learning programmes, by supporting individuals and people leaders to adapt new ways of working that will embed new capabilities.
• Partner with leaders to strengthen a high-performance culture by embedding effective performance and development practices.
• Support the performance cycle within your business area, ensuring quality conversations, meaningful goal setting, and clear development actions.
• Use outcomes from talent, learning, and performance processes to shape recommendations that improve organisational performance.

5. Data, Insights and Reporting

• Use data from talent reviews, skills assessments, performance cycles, and workforce analytics to uncover trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Provide insight driven recommendations, using evidence to challenge assumptions and support talent investments.
• Track and report on learning impact, capability uplift, mobility, and talent outcomes to demonstrate return on investment and inform strategy updates.
• Utilise the system capabilities and third-party support to simplify how we operate, ensuring tracking, monitoring and reporting is a streamlined way of working for our team.

What You Need

• Strong strategic business partnering capability with the ability to influence and challenge confidently.
• Experience in Talent Management and Learning & Development.
• Programme and project management skills, with the ability to execute at pace in matrix environments.
• Ability to navigate and lead through change effectively.
• Excellent facilitation and presentation skills; strong ability to manage group and interpersonal dynamics.
• Demonstrated ability to build high trust relationships with diverse stakeholder groups, including senior leaders.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, pressure, and shifting priorities.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills, with a KPI driven approach to impact measurement.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to connect insights, anticipate future needs, and shape long-term solutions.
• Experience working in Global, matrix organisation.
• Ability to influence across multiple levels and functions.
• Background in Organisational Psychology or Behaviour (preferred).

When choosing us……….

When you join the Vodafone Team, you will have the chance to grow your career while also experiencing some serious benefits!

Some of the benefits that you will receive along the way are:

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible working (times and location) is part of our culture where your hours can facilitate your personal work-life balance
• Generous Employer Pension contribution
• Free Phone Bill – When you join the team, your phone bill is on us! You will also receive mobile phone purchasing discounts
• Learning and Development – We provide extensive training to all of our employees so they can progress in their careers! There is also the Vodafone University where our employees can gain incredible skills!
• Exclusive Family and Friends Discounts – Receive additional discounts for you, your Family and Friends on Vodafone Products!
• 23 days annual leave and 3 charity days off – PLUS a dedicated day off for your birthday
• Access to our Wellness centre including free access to our Gym, health and wellness centre and external practitioners

We are passionate about our employees! Here at Vodafone we want you to bring your whole self to work and we enable this with our progressive workplace policies.We are proud supporters of the LGBTQ+ community and Vodafone is committed to support all of their employees at work. We are an equal opportunities employers where our people can be at their best.

When you combine Technology and the human spirit, anything is possible. And when you join Vodafone, we’ll help you shape a rewarding career that gives back in more ways than one.

It starts here. It starts with you.

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