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Learning & Development Business Partner

Wat is jouw rol?
What’s your role?
As a Learning & Development Business Partner at Lely, you are the strategic partner for managers and directors when it comes to learning and development. You translate organisational and team goals into effective learning interventions that drive growth, innovation and long term performance. No training requests without context, just focused solutions that actually make an impact.
In this role you work closely with HR Business Partners, leadership teams, internal L&D experts and specialists from the Lely Academy. You understand the business, run in depth learning needs analyses and make sure the learning budget is used strategically. You stay on top of developments in the field and translate them into the L&D vision and approach.
Sound like your kind of challenge? Then keep reading.
What will you do?
- Advise management and directors on learning strategies that support organisational development
- Run learning needs analyses and translate insights into blended, high impact learning solutions (70 20 10 model)
- Manage and optimise the strategic learning budget and ensure it’s used effectively
- Co create learning programmes together with internal experts and external partners
- Track trends in the L&D field and apply them to innovative learning solutions within Lely
- Monitor the quality and effectiveness of learning through data and evaluations
Wat is jouw ervaring?
What do you bring?
You’re a strong sparring partner for management teams, with vision and guts. You combine strategic thinking with a hands-on mindset and switch effortlessly between operational challenges and long term development.
On top of that, you bring:
- A completed bachelor’s degree
- At least 3 years of experience in a similar L&D role
- Proven experience designing and implementing learning solutions
- Experience with project and stakeholder management
- Solid knowledge of LMS systems and relevant learning technologies
- Excellent proficiency in Dutch and English, both spoken and written
- A curious, analytical mindset and a passion for continuous growth
Wat bieden wij jou?
What do we offer you?
Working at Lely means contributing to sustainable progress within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands. You contribute to making the agricultural sector future-proof – and we make sure that you get all the space, resources, and support you need to do so.
- An international working environment with opportunities for own initiative and entrepreneurship.
- Excellent working conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation per year and a good pension scheme.
- A salary within the scale of € 4.886 - € 5.933 gross per month, with room to grow from your starting salary.
- Good growth opportunities: you are in control of your development and can choose from various training courses through our Lely Academy – from personal development to job-specific training.
- Our modern Lely Campus offers daily access to extensive sports facilities: an indoor gym, outdoor padel courts, an outdoor basketball and volleyball court, table tennis and table soccer. You can join Hyrox workouts or sign up for personal training – and challenge your colleagues during an active break.
- Enjoy fresh coffee and tea from our own barista, with milk straight from our farm, as well as a healthy and affordable company restaurant.
- A healthy work-life balance thanks to our hybrid work policy: you work at least three days a week on Campus, with flexible working hours and plenty of room to spend extra time on site (between 06:00 and 20:00).
- A free shuttle bus will take you to and from the metro in Maassluis, so your workday starts and ends smoothly.
- Successes need to be celebrated: from anniversaries to Christmas parties – at Lely we know how to do it!
Recruitment & selection agency, consultancy, and/or secondment agency?
We appreciate the interest, but we are looking for all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present candidates for our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.
Over Lely
Lely, founded in 1948, is committed to a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in agriculture. Driven by the challenges farmers face and the needs of cows, we develop high-quality robots and data systems that enhance animal welfare, flexibility, and productivity on dairy farms. Our mission is to support sustainable food production.
For over 30 years, we have been a global leader in the sales and service of automated systems for successive generations of dairy farmers. Every day, we inspire our colleagues to offer customers innovative solutions and to be a reliable partner for long-term advice and support. With our state-of-the-art Lely Campus in Maassluis and a global network of dedicated Lely Centers providing tailored sales and service, Lely operates in more than fifty countries.
