As a HR Business Partner, you'll act as the People specialist within your business area's leadership team, providing support on people-related matters and leading cyclical activities. Your goal is to optimise talent, engagement, and productivity. You'll develop a localised people plan to address leaders' concerns and priorities, sharing data to inform decisions. Additionally, you'll ensure HR initiatives and resources are effectively communicated and embedded within the business area.

• Drive behavioural and cultural change with leaders, developing their skills
• Collaborate on Organisational Design changes to improve structure and ways of working
• Implement and embed organisational changes for high performance
• Work with the People Team to deliver people plans and initiatives
• Assess commercial challenges and risks, partnering to develop solutions
• Ensure people change delivery meets legal and regulatory obligations
• Represent the voice of the customer for people activities
• Identify and raise awareness of external market trends
• Diagnose skill and capability needs, driving talent management
• Set an example of positive behaviour within the People Team
• Analyse HR metrics to provide insights and recommendations
• Contribute to HR priorities and projects

Essential:

• CIPD level 5 qualified (or equivalent in experience)
• Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills
• HR generalist knowledge and experience
• Experience of advising Leaders on complex Employee Relations matters
• Resilient and change focused, with the ability to use data for strategic decision making
• Knowledge of business planning processes
• Awareness of organisational design including workforce impacts (capabilities, roles, culture, ways of working, structure)
• Good understanding of employment law
• Strong organisational, communication, and time management skills
• Confident communicator in group settings
• Proficient in PowerPoint and Excel
• Excellent attention to detail
• Project management skills for leading people change projects

Desirable:

• Accredited in mediation skills
• Coaching expertise
• Experience of working within professional services (legal, financial or consulting)
• Mental health trained