Business Partner, Talent & Organizational Development - Learning
Primient · Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
Business Partner, Talent & Organizational Development - Learning | Primient
About PrimientPrimient is a century old company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are a leading producer of food and industrial ingredients made from plant-based, renewable sources. We deliver value through deep technical, commercial, and operational excellence that is backed by our long-standing corn wet milling heritage. Wherever we are in the process, from field to customer, our priorities are focused on ensuring we produce the safest, highest quality products through practices that uphold both our responsibility and commitments to the challenge and drive for excellence, our people and our planet. We are a privately held company with locations across the US, Mexico, Poland, and Brazil. We’re investing in our plants and people to unlock our potential in the industrial and food sectors. Guided by our values of Safety, Excellence, Integrity, and Growth, we’re focused on growing our business, our reputation, and the career of every teammate.
As a Business Partner of Talent, & Organizational Development you will work closely with HRBPs, COEs and other business stakeholders to plan, communicate and execute global COE solutions and other project assignments as needed. You will work collaboratively with your team in delivering these goals.
You will serve as the Talent & Organizational Development Learning SME and partner to HRBPs in supporting their client groups to provide strategic direction in these areas.
As a Business Partner of Talent, & Organizational Development, you will serve as an advocate for Primient’s culture and drive culture transformation across the business in partnership with Primient’s Culture Champion Network.
You will serve as the gatekeeper for Talent, Learning & Culture Signature Processes across Primient including but not limited to: Role Profiling, Performance Management, Leadership training, Engagement, Recognition and other company-wide development initiatives.
As a Talent & OD Business Partner - Learning you will:
Learning Delivery
- Facilitate all of Primient’s signature programs, as well as other frameworks and tools as needed (Myers Briggs, DISC, EQ, Crucial Conversation, Situational leaders)
- Consult on and maintain an enterprise learning strategy aligned with business priorities, workforce plans, succession risks, and critical capability gaps.
- Provide strategic insight & drive execution of Primient’s Leadership training program
- Facilitate information/training sessions with the business as needed
- Translate operational and functional needs into scalable learning curricula and development pathways.
- Advise senior leaders on leadership effectiveness, team development, and capability-building investments.
Learning design and Business Partnerships
- Moderate instructional-design and curriculum-architecture expertise.
- Experience with learning technologies, digital learning, virtual facilitation, and responsible use of AI in learning.
- Apply adult-learning, instructional-design, and blended-learning principles to create effective experiences.
- Establish role-based curricula, career pathways, academies, onboarding, and leader-transition programs.
- Build manager capability to reinforce learning through coaching, practice, feedback, and on-the-job application.
- Ensure learning solutions meet the needs of frontline, plant, office, and geographically dispersed employees.
Governance and quality
- Establish learning governance, intake, prioritization, design standards, approval processes, and a learning calendar.
- Define criteria for when to build, buy, facilitate, or discontinue learning solutions.
- Maintain content quality, accessibility, version control, regulatory alignment, and consistent learner experiences.
- Manage facilitators, subject-matter experts, vendors, licenses, certifications, and intellectual property.
Measurement and business impact
- Define success measures before launching programs, including participation, completion, skill application, behavior change, and business outcomes.
- Use dashboards and stakeholder reviews to measure effectiveness, adoption, learner experience, and return on investment.
- Evaluate programs and continuously improve or sunset those that do not deliver value.
- Connect learning outcomes to performance, engagement, retention, internal mobility, succession, safety, quality, and productivity.
Change and stakeholder leadership
- Lead communications, adoption, and change-management plans for major learning initiatives.
- Build strong partnerships across HR, operations, COEs, communications, and functional leadership.
- Influence senior stakeholders, facilitate difficult conversations, and manage competing priorities.
- Create a network of facilitators, learning champions, and subject-matter experts.
Additionally required capabilities
- Consulting, executive presence, and performance-consulting skills.
- Ability to distinguish a true training need from process, leadership, role-clarity, technology, or accountability issues.
- Experience supporting hourly and frontline workforces in a manufacturing environment.
- Knowledge of accessibility, data privacy, records retention, and compliance requirements related to learning.
Knowledge & Systems Management
- Utilize Workday Learning & Performance applications to support Talent & Culture COE processes/initiatives
- Partner with the HRIS team to complete data integration efforts, build Workday processes, tools and reports that best support the business processes in Talent, Learning and Performance.
- Maintain knowledge of best practice in Talent Management and Learning to ensure tools and processes are up to date
- Partner with procurement team to manage ongoing vendor relationships/systems (e.g., Glint, LinkedIn Learning, etc.)
Culture
- Ensure Primient’s culture is infused throughout all learning programs.
- Partner with the local Culture Champion Network to drive inclusive, global culture initiatives across the business
- Manage Primient’s cornerstone Cultural Recognition programs
Budget & Project management
- Accurately forecast monthly spend and reconcile actuals to ensure 100% budget compliance.
- HR Budget POC
- HR NOAM Project Management Lead
- Ensure on-time milestones & project delivery
Other preferred knowledge
Engagement
- Knowledge of employee lifecycle surveys (including onboarding, engagement, Great Place to Work and exit surveys)
Performance Management
- Knowledge of the entire life cycle of the global performance management process across the business (including role profile workshops, goal setting, Individual Growth Plan “IGPs” creation, mid-year reviews, and end of year reviews)
- Ability to act as a back-up Talent resource to support the business during organizational design reviews & strategic workforce planning
ABOUT YOU
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development/Design, or a similar field.
- Master’s Degree in HR, OD, Business, or related fields preferred.
- Experience in Human Resources or Learning and Development roles.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, global work environment.
- Ability to effectively communicate with senior audiences.
EXPERIENCE
- 5 – 10 years of relevant experience in either Human Resources or Learning and Development roles. This could be in a generalist role or in multiple disciplines within these functions.
- Intermediate/Advanced Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint skills.
- Strong data analytic skills.
- Strong facilitation skills.
- Organizational Development Knowledge/Experience building high-performing teams.
- Experience with learning design is preferred.
- Experience with Workday Learning and/or Glint preferred.
Total RewardsThe annual pay range estimated for this position is $108,206.40 - $162,309.60 and is bonus eligible.
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