HR Business Partner

Are you a solutions-focused HR Business Partner who can drive HR and execute the people agenda to support current and future business objectives?

About the role:

This role forms a pivotal part of the management team, and reports to an Operations Director, with 2 direct HR reports, close alignment and collaboration with the HR network, HR Shared Service and recruitment team across the UK and Ireland. We are proud to partner with this thriving Global business that demonstrates a deep commitment to sustainability whilst making their people feel healthy, safe and able to be at the top of their game. People are encouraged to take initiative and make decisions independently and their values permeate everything they do.

As HR Business Partner, you will find yourself in a broad HR role with responsibilities ranging from process-oriented tasks such as supporting on change management initiatives and the performance review process to more strategic tasks such as aligning HR strategies with overall business objectives and promoting the desired organisational culture through various activities.

This HR Business Partner role offers Hybrid / Flexible working with Kent office bases, occasional travel to other UK locations.

Salary + Car Allowance and Benefits

Duties, responsibilities, and tasks will include:

• Implementation and maintenance of HR policies, processes and systems to ensure HR is aligned with the business strategy and goals.
• Talent Management - Understand the resource planning and provide solutions to skills gap analysis, talent attraction, creation of talent pipeline, and acquisition guidelines including workplace equality, diversity and inclusion, key position identification, leadership and talent review, but also learning and development initiatives through workshops and training.
• Competence development and succession planning to ensure employees, and their competence levels, meet current and future business needs (long and short-term workforce planning, deployment of the strategic workforce plan, monitoring and analyzing headcount).
• Produce key performance metrics, identify trends based on data and provide actions to improve areas within the business units such as talent and performance, succession plans, reward and recognition.
• Develop annual HR budgets in line with Group budget guidelines.
• Implement performance management systems to drive high performance and accountability, aligned with Group procedures.

About you:

Your diverse HR generalist background from multi-cultural business environments, combined with hands-on experience in leading change initiatives will ensure success in this role. A Level 5 CIPD qualification is required as a minimum. To succeed in the role, your personal skills are:

• Possesses a high level of personal integrity
• Communicative by nature
• Good at taking initiative
• Result-oriented

What is on offer to you:

• Basic Salary £65-85K
• Hybrid working. (Usually 3 days in office with 2 WFH)
• Working hours are Mon to Thurs 8.30 to 5pm with 45 minutes unpaid lunch break. Friday one hour unpaid lunch with 8.30-4pm day.
• Contributory Pension. Employee and Employer matched contributions at 4% / 8%. Salary sacrifice scheme.
• BUPA: single membership
• Non-contractual bonus: up to 20% in the full calendar year
• Company car grade 2 or Car allowance £625 pm
• Life Assurance: paid at 3x annual salary in the event of death whilst in service.
• 25 days holiday and 8 bank holidays paid

If this HR Business Partner role sounds like something you feel you could add value to and you want to contribute to continued succession, then forward your CV today to Cressida Courtney or follow the link and apply online.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we may not be able to respond to every applicant individually. Please know that we carefully review each application and will reach out if your qualifications align with the vacancy.