People Business Partner

Allwyn UK; Watford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

Join our journey to create a new experience for the National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.

About us:

We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group - a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence in Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Cyprus and Italy. We have been officially awarded the Fourth Licence (10 year licence) to operate the National Lottery starting February 2024.

We've developed ground-breaking technologies, built player protection frameworks, and have a proven track record of making lotteries better. Our aim is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself in being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

While the main contribution of the National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey to build a bigger, better, and safer National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

Role Purpose:

Creating a place where we will all win together. Together we will embrace talented people, enabling them to bring the best of themselves and give them the space and platform to do their best work with a shared purpose to transform the National Lottery.

The People Business Partner is responsible for business partnering at Exec, Leadership & Managerial level within their appointed Functional area, in order to support strategic priorities through collaboration and effective relationship building, providing appropriate advice and coaching, implementing initiatives to align with business needs and drive business & employee performance.

Role Responsibilities:

1. Understand objectives, KPIs, challenges and issues of assigned business area(s) by working in close collaboration with Exec, LT and managers on strategy execution, and be an integrated member of the business areas senior team.
2. Provide sound advice through a commercial lens looking at all aspects including the interest of the business and the individual. Weighing up risks and taking a pragmatic approach to advising managers.
3. Work in partnership with senior managers to develop and deliver people plans that address strategic business issues, identifying opportunities and mitigating risk.
4. Contribute to the overall people strategy, to support Allwyn's operating and strategic goals and business plans.
5. Attend and contribute to relevant business area meetings to gain insight into culture, activities and issues, providing direction on the people strategy, enabling a customer-focused, cost efficient, and innovative approach.
6. Use business insights to drive change in people management practices.
7. Analyse management information to build longer term resource and talent management plans to drive organisational and people capability.
8. Foresee business risk and act appropriately.
9. Partner and lead on organisational design activity with Senior Leaders, ensuring resource planning is budgeted through collaboration with the appropriate Finance Business Partner.
10. Build capability to drive the right culture within the business by driving effective management of performance capability and drive talent management across functional areas.
11. Coach, support and challenge senior managers to increase effectiveness, ensuring alignment and consistency of people processes, providing a comprehensive human resources service.
12. Facilitate succession and resource planning with individual business units to identify high performers, linking to the creation of future development strategy and individual development plans.
13. Provide detailed advice to Leaders on Allwyn rewards, learning & development, talent and succession planning.
14. Utilise centres of expertise, such as recruitment, reward and L&D to offer a rounded People service to the business, ensuring effective, impactful business partnering.
15. Work in collaboration with ER Manager to understand employment law changes to ensure anticipated impact of changes in the law are embedded into ways of working/policies.
16. Maintain effective working relationship with the Employee Forum and ensure they are engaged on key people activity.
17. Focuses on delivery of workforce planning for employees, contractors, temporary staff and third parties.
18. Lead on wide scale org change across the business, partnering with Senior Leaders on their people strategy and team vision.
19. Work with the Group Legal team as required to ensure a consistent and commercial approach to complex ER cases/tribunal claims, whilst minimising risk to the business.
20. Drives forward our behaviours and values through People led initiatives.

Key Measures of Success:

1. Working with their business areas to drive efficiencies whilst improving performance.
2. Successful implementation of projects i.e. succession planning, talent management etc.
3. Sound advice provided to the business, weighing up risks.
4. Positive feedback for stakeholders.
5. Delivery of team sessions for functions with positive feedback obtained.
6. Successful implementation of employee engagement plans across functional areas, demonstrated by an improvement in employee engagement.
7. Identifying risks and putting mitigations in place.

Key Skills and Experience:

1. Have a proven track record within a People Business Partnering/Consulting role within a fast-moving company.
2. Demonstrate sound influencing skills.
3. Possess the ability to use good judgement when advising the business on appropriate actions.
4. Demonstrable up to date generalist knowledge in employee relations, performance management, organisational change, reward and recognition and employee legislation.
5. Skilled in dealing with and coaching senior managers through ER issues and up to date knowledge of UK employment law.
6. Ability to analyse information and present it in a concise and impactful manner.
7. Experience of developing a people plan within a business unit.
8. Experience of facilitating leaders and managers in succession planning, talent management and development needs analysis at business unit level.

Our goal is to create one of the UK's most inclusive organisations - where people can bring the best of themselves, to do their best work, every day, for the benefit of good causes.

Benefits

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we'll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• £500 Wellness Allowance
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Business Development and Sales

Industries

Non-profit Organizations and Primary and Secondary Education