Job Description
**Job Summary** Highly skilled HR Business Partner sought to drive strategic people plans, manage employee relations, and lead high-performance culture initiatives in a dynamic business environment. Reporting to the Head of HR, the HR Business Partner will work in close partnership with key HR CoEs (Reward, Talent and L&D) to ensure programmes and processes delivered by HR are aligned with business and people strategies. **Key Responsibilities** * **Stakeholder Engagement & Driving High Performance** + Operate in a manner that supports the business and its key priorities while ensuring control, governance, and tension in the system + Work with Head of HR and business leaders to design and deliver strategic people plans to enable business outcomes + Partner with leaders to create solutions that build a high-performance culture, driving higher employee engagement and performance * **Employee Relations** + Be the first point of contact for all employee relations matters (disciplinary, grievance, sickness absence) + Manage and investigate employee relations concerns and issues as they arise, balancing what's right for the employee with what's right for the company + Coach and advise managers both proactively and reactively as they manage their teams * **People Strategy** + Lead and contribute to projects across the HR Strategy + Provide key HR metrics/data where appropriate as requested by the business * **Talent Management** + Work with hiring managers to support the recruitment process as required + Lead resourcing meetings with Recruitment Manager and Business managers as appropriate + Find opportunities for talent mobility across the organisation and support on succession planning initiatives * **Engagement** + Lead the development of action plans to address employee feedback resulting from employee survey results * **Reward** + Ensure consistent reward principles are applied across the employee lifecycle + Support the rollout of all reward initiatives across the Business Units + Manage the reward process, providing advice/recommendations and ensuring appropriate approvals are in place * **EDI** + Embed and achieve D&I ambitions through all people initiatives **Requirements** * Previous experience in a similar role and a broad understanding across different areas of HR * Excellent communication and inter-personal skills with an engaging, approachable style * Ability to confidently and sensitively challenge employees at every level (including senior leaders) and hold their position under pressure * Excellent organisational skills; able to juggle a number of priorities * Self-starter, with high energy, initiative and a solution focused Can-do attitude and Resilient * Adept at liaising with people and building relationships across the business * Willingness to travel to various projects and offices as required * Ability to balance the need for immediate solutions with the requirement to think and act longer term.