Learning & Performance Business Partner

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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)

• 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