HR Business Partner

Arco: Experts In Safety; Kingston upon Hull; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000

Job description

About The Role

Are you an experienced HR Business Partner with the ability to drive change and growth as a true partner to commercial functions? Are you able to juggle strategic ambition alongside cyclical HR initiatives, whilst delivering HR solutions through consulting and partnering with stakeholders up to C-Suite level?

If this sounds like you, then we’re now recruiting for a HRBP to join our People & Culture (P&C) leadership team, partnering with the Exec members and their leadership teams for our Commercial and Finance functions. The colleague base of these functions is circa 600 to 700 employees.

Please note our HR Business Partner role is a hybrid position with a mix of home working and time spent from our Head Office in Hull, with the expectation of an average of 2 to 3 days from the office each week. There may also be some UK wide travel required from time to time.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding business strategy to determine the Functional People Plan and priorities to deliver business objectives
• Supporting senior leaders in delivering the strategic and operational people elements of change programmes
• Contributing to the development and implementation of Arco’s overall People Strategy
• Developing a robust resource and capability plan to enable achievement of business objectives
• Delivering and facilitating key people initiatives and projects, ensuring they are effectively prioritised, resourced and delivered. These will include initiatives related to Reward & Recognition, Talent & Succession Planning, Management Development, Performance Management, Resourcing & Employee Engagement
• Championing functional engagement strategies to drive improvements in colleague engagement, challenging leaders to drive appropriate initiatives and actions
• Coaching leaders to be better leaders, and role model the right leadership behaviours
• Utilising people insight and metrics to influence business decisions and the people agenda as well as continuous improvement on key performance metrics
• Providing coaching and support to HR colleagues, using the HR Operating Model to leverage support from the P&C team
• Managing high level complex ER cases when escalated, mitigating business risk and managing commercial outcomes

Benefits

• A competitive salary plus up to 17% bonus
• 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
• 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
• An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
• A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
• Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
• Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

Ideal Candidate

• A true HR generalist with a proven track record of HR Business Partnering up to Executive (C Suite) level
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with ability to communicate at all levels and be flexible in approach
• Understanding of the change management cycle and of people metrics
• Strong commercial acumen and problem-solving abilities
• Strong influencer and relationship builder with a high focus on customer service
• Employee relations background
• Excellent Microsoft Office systems knowledge and skills inc. Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel
• Good coaching skills and experience of delivering training
• Knowledge of talent attraction, OD and reward frameworks
• CIPD qualified or relevant demonstrable experience

About Us

With a 140-year legacy, Arco are recognised as the UK's leading safety experts. As the only integrated safety products and services business, our size, scale and reputation in the sector are why we have such an impressive portfolio of accounts and customers. We're the expert safety partner with a unique mix of specialist expertise and practical real-life industry knowledge.

We are now on a transformation journey to become more profitable and sustainable, with investment into our growing business to help achieve this. This is an exciting and demanding time for the business. There is opportunity to shape and challenge the transformation journey and future growth, while balancing the pressure to deliver sales growth and financial targets that are necessary to support the future growth. Our behaviours; Care, Collaborate, Perform and Deliver, are embedded within our culture, to drive performance and ensure we succeed together and are rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Diversity and Inclusion at Arco means understanding everyone's views and giving colleagues a sense of belonging. We respect and value individuals for their unique skills, experiences and ideas; to ensure we can be at our best. By creating a supportive and inclusive environment we will be an organisation able to drive our strategic goals, attracting and developing great people to be a more profitable and sustainable business for generations to come.

Be Safe, Be Yourself, Be Your Best.