Learning & Development Expert Maassluis

Vacature in het kort

Join an innovative team at the forefront of agricultural technology, contributing significantly to the dairy farming industry. This role involves creating and updating training materials, conducting sessions, and ensuring the technical team's proficiency in our cutting-edge farm management system, Lely Horizon. Enjoy the opportunity to occasionally travel, connecting with international colleagues and fostering professional relationships. Discover more about this exciting opportunity by reading further.

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Are you enthusiastic about stimulating growth, and reaching high performances in an innovative environment? Where you can really contribute to the well-being of our customers, the dairy farms? Your chance to come and work at the largest robot manufacturer in the Netherlands, the family business of the year with a high-tech campus in beautiful Westland. Lely develops and produces robots and digital services for the agricultural sector, especially dairy farms, and supplies them worldwide in more than 40 countries.

In this position, you are working within Lely’s Digital Operations Center (DOC). The Digital Operations Center (DOC) is part of Technical Service Support (TSS). Would you like to know more about working at the Digital Operations Center, watch this video!

With over 1500 technicians working in more than 34 countries, you will secure that these technicians have a good understanding of Lely’s farm management system, and develop and maintain their knowledge. You will give training to several types of colleagues in several layers in the organization, from developers to technicians. You will work closely with the Digital Operations Center (DOC) technical specialists who will give you technical input that you will be translating into clear, easy to understand and logical Knowledge Base (KB) articles and trainings.

Lely Horizon is the management system for modern dairy farming. With the rapid release cycle of new versions of Lely Horizon, which sometimes contain minor and sometimes major changes, it’s key to ensure our training curriculum and shared knowledge about the management system is up to date.

Under your guidance and together with your fellow team members, your team will prepare and give trainings. You like to prepare and present trainings and keep training materials such as user manuals, training videos and user guides up-to-date. You know how to adapt your approach to the various user groups and create perfect tailor-made training sessions. You will actively capture feedback from stakeholders and process this feedback into new or updated training materials and technical manuals.

To build up a good relationship with colleagues abroad, you occasionally visit a branch.

Your activities
You:

• take the team along in creation of and responsibility for following up of the DOC Training, Communication and Documentation (TCD) roadmap;
• are able to determine the short and long term (training) needs and use this to give input to the training roadmap;
• are able to escalate roadmap issues with stakeholders when progress is staying behind;
• are able to solve the most complex issues independently and help team members in this process as a ‘sparring partner’;
• stay up to date with the latest (technical) developments in own field of expertise and share these within the organization (e.g. trends in training methods like blended learning). You are also able to translate these insights into strategies and practical actions;
• will work closely together with the TSS Development Learning & Development competence team;
• will safeguard the quality of work of the TCD team;
• are a mentor of the TCD team and give proactive & constructive feedback for personal development and content of work to other team members.

Gevraagd

We are looking for a team player who wants to become part of a young and enthusiastic team and enjoys a dynamic role with a lot of space for own initiatives. You have a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience within a technical L&D environment in which you gained didactic knowledge, but also a commercial feeling. You possess high quality organizational and leadership skills and have outstanding communication and presentation abilities.

Further, you:

• have a bachelor intellectual and working level (by degree or experience);
• are currently living in the Netherlands and have a fluent level of English (verbal and written);
• have experience with giving training and developing training materials in regard to (technical) knowledge topics;
• have a creative and open mindset;
• can easily connect (and co-create) remotely with colleagues worldwide;
   
• Having affinity and/or experience with organizing events and/or communication is a plus.

Aanbod

An amazing job at an international company that is at the forefront of the agricultural sector to make the dairy farmer’s life easier, more sustainable and more enjoyable. This is your chance to share and once again enrich your specialized knowledge.

You will also benefit from:

• Working in an international environment at one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands;
• Working at the modern Lely Campus in Maassluis;
• Excellent working conditions, including 27 vacation days & 13 scheduled days off;
• A salary range between € 4400,- and € 6000,- gross per month, in relation to your knowledge and experience;
• An open working environment including flexible working hours and opportunities to work from home;
• Freedom in organizing your own work;
• Good environment for personal development & growth;
• Our Lely Academy with a range of different training courses;
• #FitatLely program with our own Lely Gym where you can exercise for free, (online) sports lessons, masterclasses about working from home and other activities in the field of Body, Mind or Food.

...and its own barista on the Lely Campus who makes the best cappuccinos from fresh milk, straight from the farmer.

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We appreciate the interest, but we are seeking all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present the candidates with our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have organized our recruitment. This means that all unsolicited profiles offered on Lely vacancies will be treated as direct applications.