Associate HR Business Partner

TN United Kingdom; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

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MPI requires an Associate HR Business Partner, for our client based in Salford

Duration: 3 months

Hybrid: 2 days per week in the office

Working Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm

Interview process: 1 stage TEAMs interview

Key responsibilities:

• Act as an internal consultant, contracting on key activity required by the Division.
• Effectively grow and manage key relationships within the business and/or the wider HR Team to enable swift and accurate response to requests for support.
• Proactively highlight or support on complex queries and requests received by the divisional team, ensuring they are resolved or managed appropriately.
• Understand what is important to the Division and their Business Leaders, through being visible and present within both the HR and wider business environment.
• Keep a focus on continuous improvement opportunities, and take accountability for developing options to resolve; or set out proposals and options to improve.
• Use internal agreed escalation paths to proactively deal with queries from the divisions.
• Ensure collaboration across the Divisional team and/or People Services to promote a culture of continuous improvement, and share/learn from each other.
• For roles embedded in People Services, raise the profile of People Services, helping the business to understand routes into HR by being an advocate for our digital and self-service approach.
• Accountable for the delivery of quality and timely work, which meets or exceeds the businesses expectations.
• Provide internal support within the wider HR and/or People Services team for activities linked to the wider BBC HR agenda.
• Foster a culture of service excellence, role-modelling this and coaching the team to deliver customer focus and management of expectations.
• Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness of people solutions and understand the landscape for further improvement.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across the HR team, facilitating two-way communication between the business, translating business requirements and needs back into the HR and/or People Services function.
• Actively look to embed knowledge transfer both within the division being supported, the divisional support team, or the wider HR team.

Be an ambassador for the function and represent HR internally and externally (as appropriate).

Minimum Requirements:

• Experience of working in complex/matrix structures
• Able to harness IT tools and systems to enable performance
• Able to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and ability to develop, maintain, and enhance relationships with a variety of contacts; strong influencing and persuading skills
• Analytical skills and the ability to resolve logistically complex problems
• Compare and contrast situations and information, identifying patterns and trends which inform subsequent decisions
• Create a sense of team spirit, encouraging shared ownership of objectives and deliverables
• Be a role model
• Use of process improvement tools and their application
• Ability to grow productive and meaningful relationships within the business and HR teams
• Self-generate development opportunities and take ownership for own career growth
• Prior experience of working with people systems (such as SAP)
• Prior experience of working in a centralized/shared service center environment (for roles embedded in People Services)
• Experience of delivering a HR Partnering approach