At KONE, we believe people are at the heart of our success. We're looking for a passionate and innovative Learning & Development Business Partner to help shape the future of learning across Australia and New Zealand.
In this role, you'll partner with business leaders and People & Culture teams to deliver impactful learning experiences that build capability, accelerate performance, and support career growth. From leadership development and sales excellence to digital skills, AI capability, and early careers programs, you'll play a critical role in creating a culture of continuous learning and development.
If you're an experienced facilitator, learning consultant, and program manager who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Be Doing
As our Learning & Development Business Partner, you will:
- Lead the deployment and local execution of KONE's learning strategy, ensuring alignment with regional, area, and global priorities.
- Partner with business leaders, People & Culture teams, and key stakeholders to identify capability gaps and translate business needs into effective learning and performance solutions.
- Own and drive the successful rollout of strategic learning programs across leadership development, sales excellence, digital capability, AI skills, and other key business priorities.
- Manage all aspects of program delivery, including scheduling, communications, stakeholder engagement, logistics, learner support, evaluations, and reporting.
- Coordinate learning events and development activities with a strong focus on operational excellence and participant engagement.
- Coordinate graduate and apprentice development activities, working closely with Talent Acquisition, People & Culture, managers, and business leaders.
- Promote the adoption of digital learning solutions and emerging technologies, helping employees leverage modern learning experiences and AI-enabled tools.
- Track key learning metrics and performance indicators to evaluate program effectiveness and business impact.
- Ensure operational excellence in learning delivery, maintaining high standards of administration, governance, compliance, and data integrity within Workday Learning and other learning platforms.
- Use data and insights to make recommendations that increase participation, strengthen capability development, and improve organisational performance.
- Manage subcontractor training requirements, including safety certifications and installation and maintenance programs.
- Ensure compliance with learning governance, mandatory training requirements, and relevant regulatory standards.
What You'll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources, Education, Organisational Development, or a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.
- 3-5+ years' experience in Learning & Development, with strong experience in learning deployment, facilitation, and program management.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
- Experience delivering leadership development, sales capability, digital skills, or early careers programs.
- Outstanding facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Strong organisational and project management capabilities, with attention to detail and operational excellence.
- Experience working within complex, matrixed, or multinational environments.
- A passion for learning innovation, digital learning technologies, and the application of AI to enhance workforce capability and performance.
At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.
Read more on https://careers.kone.com/en/
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Education, Organisational Development or Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- 3-5+ years' experience in Learning & Development with learning deployment, facilitation, and program management
- Experience delivering leadership development, sales capability, digital skills, or early careers programs
- Outstanding facilitation, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Strong organisational and project management capabilities with attention to detail and operational excellence
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
- Experience working within complex, matrixed, or multinational environments
- Passion for learning innovation, digital learning technologies, and application of AI to workforce capability
- Experience with Workday Learning or other learning platforms (administration, governance, data integrity)
Kone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Kone and has not been reviewed or approved by Kone.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive across many roles and markets, with field positions sometimes benefiting from overtime and strong union scales. Feedback suggests base compensation is often a relative positive even when other factors vary.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs, including 401(k) and in some regions pension or annuity structures, are consistently highlighted as strong. Feedback suggests these elements meaningfully enhance the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core health coverage is viewed as comprehensive, commonly including medical, dental, and vision options. Feedback suggests a global well‑being framework and EAP resources further reinforce health-related support.
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What We Do
At KONE, our mission is to improve the flow of urban life. This means understanding urbanization and, together with our partners and customers, helping cities to become better and more sustainable places to live. As a global leader in the elevator and escalator industry, KONE provides elevators, escalators and automatic building doors, as well as solutions for maintenance and modernization to add value to buildings throughout their life cycle. Through more effective People Flow®, we make people's journeys safe, convenient and reliable, in taller, smarter buildings. Headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, we operate in more than 60 countries around the world, employ over 60,000 people and serve 550,000 customers. In 2022, KONE had annual sales of EUR 10.9 billion. KONE class B shares are listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd. in Finland.
