People Business Partner

People Business Partner

12 month Fixed Term Contract

Hybrid working

The People Business Partner is responsible for providing both operational and strategic HR support across the business, working with both colleagues and leaders to deliver the People Agenda.

Reporting to the People Manager, the People Business Partner will be an instrumental part of the People team and will be empowered to make decisions that will help shape the future of the business.

The focus of this role is to develop key relationships with leaders ensuring that they are equipped to drive colleague engagement and performance, and to define and support initiatives that ensure that the business has the skills and capabilities required to be a market leading business.

With a strong emphasis on operational HR, this is a hands-on role, and therefore it is essential this person can work well within a team.

The People Business Partner will act as deputy to the People Manager during periods of absence.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Partnering

Partnering with the business leaders to develop a deep and holistic understanding of what they do, their commercial levers and opportunities as well as strategic priorities. To understand and address key organisational development needs & deliver work force plans to support the delivery of the business and People OKRs.

Organisational Effectiveness & Transformation

Collaborate with key stakeholders to enhance organisational effectiveness by identifying and implementing strategies to improve performance, productivity and employee engagement.

Support the identification and validation of new organizational changes using key business insights and stakeholders to assess impacts and opportunities. develop and integrate changes where necessary.

Identify and nurture key talent and create and activate succession planning for business area.

Work proactively to identify opportunities to optimize organizational structures, roles, responsibilities, to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

People Processes

Providing operational advice and support on full employee life cycle activity including but not limited to, job description design and evaluation, salary benchmarking, recruitment and selection, onboarding, employee relations (i.e. sickness absence, disciplinary & grievance, performance management), talent planning and compensation and benefits.

Accountable for the creation and communication of an annual calendar of People related activity.

Compensation & Benefits

Accountable for the maintenance of full and accurate benchmark data for all roles within the company

Leading the annual salary review and bonus payment project with the support of the key internal stakeholders.

Act as an escalation point for payroll and benefits process queries.

Stakeholder Management

Build and effective relationships with SLT (C-Suite) and Translate level leaders, becoming a trusted advisor, providing coaching, insights and recommendations on people related matters.

Provide HR expertise and challenege, advice and support to influence and guide decision making at all levels of the organisation,

Continually challenging leaders to ensure to make People related decisions that improve individual, team and business effectiveness.

Supplier Management

Establishing and maintaining effective relationships with external providers including but not limited to payroll, private medical insurance, life assurance, pension etc.

Data & Reporting

Accountable for the maintenance of full and accurate headcount data for the business

Participating in regular meetings with both leaders and the Finance Business Partner to ensure an up to date view of headcount status and future forecast is always available.

Collating and analyzing the data required for critical reports in a timely manner e.g. CEO Report and People Metrics to provide meaningful insights to the organisation, identifying opportunities to drive commercial decision making aligned to people and organizational strategies

People Team Brand

Ensuring that the People team are considered a role model Directorate within the company and are viewed as approachable, credible and commercially astute.

Ensuring shared responsibility for operational aspects of the full employee lifecycle to prevent single points of failure within the team and participating in cross-skilling activity where required.

Championing the voice of the workforce.

People Projects

Leading and/or supporting the delivery of People initiatives as required.

Compliance & Security

To support and contribute actively to health and safety, environmental, business continuity and information security arrangements that meets our obligations to our customers.

Act as ISO lead for the People Team with support from the People Generalist.