Human Resources Business Partner Support x 2

Human Resources Business Partner Support x 2

About Network Rail
Join Our Team at Network Rail! Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About the role (External)
In this role you'll deliver proactive and professional HR support to empower HR Business Partner teams in driving impactful HR solutions, bringing the people strategy to life for the organisations we support. This role will primarily support Supply Chain Operations (SCO), but there may be the opportunity to support other areas depending on workload. The role will require someone with strong analytical skills, particularly with experience of HR metrics and data, as we use data to inform many of our decisions to make improvements. It will also require someone who can use their initiative to look beyond the day-to-day requirements and suggest ways we can improve what we currently do that will support our client groups. Employee Relations knowledge would be helpful, alongside working knowledge of HR processes and policies and how they are applied.

Key accountabilities include:

1. Provide proactive, professional HR Support to the HR Business Partner team/s and the business to facilitate the delivery of value add HR and the delivery of the people/HR plans.
2. Support HR Business Partner teams in Talent Management, Workforce and Succession Planning and performance planning, maintaining appropriate data within the associated process.
3. Provide support for Organisation Change programmes, through the full development and implementation phases.
4. Provide project management support to the HR Business Partner team, tracking, measuring and communicating through the project timeline.
5. Support the associated HR Business Partner team/s with research, reporting requirements, analysis and production of reports to support the implementation of HR initiatives.
6. Seeks, identifies and develops solutions to continuously improve the HR support to the business.
7. Maintains up to date professional HR knowledge to input into the development of both operational and value add HR initiatives.
8. Takes ownership for delivery of assigned work within HR programmes/initiatives.
9. Support the associated HR Business Partner team/s with ad hoc administrative and operational HR activity.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate the following:

Essential
Demonstrates strong customer service skills.
Experience of working within a large, complex and fast moving organisation.
High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong time management, organisation and prioritisation skills and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
Resilient, Adaptable and Flexible.
IT literate, strong excel, word and PowerPoint knowledge.
Experience of event coordination and facilitation.
Research and analytical skills.
Strong relationship building skills.
Experience of supporting the delivery of HR initiatives and projects.

Desirable
CIPD Qualified or relevant HR Support experience.
Graduate calibre.