Human Resource Business Partner

Role: People Business Partner

Type: 6 Month FTC

Location: Reading Hybrid (2 days a week in Reading)

We have a great opportunity for People Business Partner to join one of the leading Telecom brands for a FTC of 6 Months.

The role holder supports leaders and teams across the Business, while also playing a critical role in connecting with the wider people team on feedback and opportunities for improvement.

Responsibilities Include:

• Manage relationships and influence leaders on strategic and operational people matter's providing proactive HR expertise with strong thought leadership and guidance
• Represent PBP team in relevant People Team working groups and provide local policy, and in-country employment legislation' where required
• Proactively identify opportunities to influence and support achievement of business and HR agenda
• Solve complex problems with innovative solutions and clear and considered recommendations whilst overcoming challenges to achieve longer term business benefit
• Challenge and influence business leaders to ensure people are at the heart of the business leveraging relationships and challenging status quo with new and better ways of doing things
• Explore external best practice learning, introduce new thinking and support cultural change
• Participate in cross functional HR projects and programmes ensuring the alignment of people processes, culture, systems and employee experience are effectively implemented across the company and/or in business area
• Work with others across the function to achieve the strategy and goals of the People function collaborating effectively with all team
• Lead the planning, communication and implementation of HR interventions, services, processes or policies effectively across the business
• Manage delivery programmes and projects locally and across multiple functions if generic roll-out
• Design and implement people change management plans and influence stakeholders to ensure successful implementation and transition to new ways of working
• Advise on, develop and implement HR initiatives, programmes and processes incorporating best practice and fresh thinking to support the company vision and business/people strategy
• Lead the adoption of digital ways of working ensuring appropriate touch and technology interactions that provide a great employee experience
• Identify and implement innovative interventions with business leaders to increase employee engagement and motivation in support of a high performance culture
• Represent the company externally at conferences and external events

Experience Required:

• Strong interpersonal skills: networking, negotiation, influencing, collaborating, presentation, written communications.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with demonstrated ability to influence and manage multiple stakeholders, focusing on behaviours, actions and key decisions
• Good commercial acumen and understanding of how businesses operate end-to-end.
• High impact individual with strong track record in developing and implementing actionable short and medium HR plans in a commercial environment.
• Demonstrated proactive and effective business counselling, issue spotting, problem solving, negotiation and analytical skills
• HR business partnering experience
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills with ability to solve complex and non -standard issues with innovative solutions and creative thinking
• Strong technical HR knowledge across all disciplines including experience and understanding of best practice HR processes and ways of working
• Curiosity to learn, grow develop new skills and thinking
• Thrives on working in a collaborative team-based environment supporting others to achieve their goals
• Ability to manage high workloads & conflicting priorities
• High level of personal resilience, able to remain highly effective and flexible in a dynamic culture
• Good understanding of in-country employment legislation
• Successfully operates in a collaborative, matrixed, services environment.

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