Learning & Development Business Partner

Location: Midlands with travel to all hubs

Reporting to: Learning & Development Manager

Are you a strategic, commercially‑savvy L&D professional who thrives on partnering with leaders to drive performance, culture, and growth? Ampa Group is looking for a Learning & Development Business Partner to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our L&D strategy across the organisation. You will work closely with senior leaders, People Partners, and subject‑matter experts to understand capability needs, challenge thinking constructively, and design bespoke learning and organisational interventions that drive impact. You will be a trusted advisor, skilled facilitator, and coach, confident in influencing leaders at all levels within a professional services environment. This is a unique opportunity to shape learning experiences that embed culture, accelerate capability, and enable strategic growth across a multi‑site, dynamic organisation.

What you will be doing

• Strategic Partnering & Capability Insight
  • Partner with leaders to identify current and future capability needs aligned to business strategy.
  • Challenge constructively to uncover root causes of performance issues and recommend learning or organisational interventions.
  • Analyse qualitative and quantitative data to identify skill gaps, trends, and priorities.
  • Co‑create career and capability frameworks to support progression, retention, and performance.
• Learning Design, Curation & Delivery
  • Design and deliver engaging, high‑impact learning programmes, workshops, and interventions.
  • Curate meaningful content that supports performance at the point of need.
  • Develop bespoke learning experiences that reflect Ampa values, culture, and responsible business commitments.
  • Leverage digital tools to create blended learning and interactive online experiences.
  • Design learning journeys that integrate pre‑work, live application, manager reinforcement, and post‑programme follow‑up for sustained behavioural adoption.
• Facilitation & Coaching
  • Facilitate leadership workshops, team development sessions, and group learning with confidence and adaptability.
  • Coach leaders and teams to build capability, resilience, and a culture of continuous learning.
  • Promote high‑performing team behaviours and psychological safety.
  • Deliver learning in‑person and virtually across multiple locations, adapting style to different professional audiences.
• Talent & Early Careers Collaboration
  • Partner with the Early Careers Manager to design and deliver aligned development programmes.
  • Support talent management initiatives with scalable learning solutions.
• Organisational Development & Behavioural Adoption
  • Address organisational, leadership, and behavioural factors impacting performance, beyond skills gaps.
  • Apply behavioural change principles to ensure learning translates into measurable outcomes.
  • Collaborate with senior stakeholders to address structural, cultural, or leadership conditions where learning alone won’t deliver impact.
  • Support teams through change, reinforcing expectations, accountability, and confidence in execution.
• Evaluation & Performance Impact
  • Monitor and evaluate learning outcomes to ensure skills and behaviours are embedded.
  • Define success measures upfront and use insights to drive continuous improvement.
  • Recommend interventions where leading indicators highlight performance opportunities.

What you will need

• CIPD Level 5 in Learning & Development (or equivalent experience) or Organisation Development qualification.
• Proven experience as an L&D Business Partner, Learning Consultant, or OD‑focused role in professional services or similarly complex environments.
• Strong business partnering skills, able to influence and challenge senior stakeholders effectively.
• Advanced facilitation and coaching skills, adaptable to diverse audiences.
• End‑to‑end L&D experience: needs analysis, design, delivery, evaluation, and behavioural follow‑through.
• Experience designing bespoke learning interventions and digital learning assets.
• Insights Discovery accreditation or equivalent psychometric/behavioural profiling qualification — highly desirable.
• Experience in multi‑site or multi‑sector organisations, supporting talent and leadership development.
• Confidence using digital learning tools (LMS, video, interactive design platforms).
• Proven experience embedding career frameworks and driving cultural change initiatives.

Benefits, agile working and additional information

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it. We have hubs across the UK (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon, Brighton, Chichester, Crawley, East Grinstead, Eastbourne, Lewes, Seaford, Storrington, Southampton & Tunbridge Wells).

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Equal opportunities

Ampa Group is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.