Senior HR Business Partner

Job reference 320180

Senior HR Business Partner

Competitive salary plus £4,800 Car allowance, fully family Healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential with 27.5 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, increasing with years served and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates

We have two roles available one permanent and one 12-month FTC.

Both roles cover Operations teams within the Central Operations function, meaning that both roles require national travel. You will be expected to be in the office 2/3 days a week and have ad hoc travel nationally to suit business needs.

Through creativity and collaboration our Strategic Business Partner team plays a critical role in driving employee engagement, organisational success, and fostering a positive culture. Within our extensive team there are countless opportunities to get involved in strategic projects and initiatives that advance your career, personal growth, and experience.

Have you got excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills gained in an HRBP role? Can you juggle multiple priorities across a complex organisation? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a permanent Senior HR Business Partner working with the National Distribution and Fleet Director and a 12-month FTC partnering the National Engineering and Process Design Director along with other central operations teams.

About The Role

Reporting into the Head of HR Central Operations you will partner with the Functional Directors to achieve short-term business targets and creating and deploying the longer-term strategy.

You will also

• Develop and deploy a People strategy /Plan, that is focused on culture and transformational change aligned to functional business goals and adapted for changing needs.
• Provide informed HR consulting to senior stakeholders to ensure that business and people plans and priorities are aligned, utilising relevant data driven metrics.
• Lead and support on strategic change management projects, while proactively engaging with national trade unions to deploy change.
• Mitigate risk and diffuse potential conflict particularly around the deployment of change activities.
• Support, coach senior leaders in the management of significant IR/ER issues
• Collaborate and influence the Function’s Leadership Team to ensure the successful deployment of our people processes centred around compensation, engagement, performance management, talent, and succession.
• Advocate and sponsor the use of the full suite of HR service offerings, acting as customer voice, role model and facilitator to ensure business adherence to.
  
  

About You

To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

• Trusted advisor, able to influence and build relationships with senior stakeholders to effectively challenge and build.
• Resilient and tenacious and to think critically and logically.
• Strong HR technical experience including current employment law.
• Experience managing a challenging IR climate.
• Change management experience and supporting the deployment of change.
• Deep understanding of business and commercial challenges and future business strategy and how these impact on the customer.
• CIPD qualified is desirable
  
  

Extra Benefits

• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
• Available only to perm employees
  
  

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face or virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

We are Forces family friendly and a Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant. We welcome applications from ex-Armed Forces personnel, reservists, veterans, cadet instructors and military spouses/partners.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Sunday 10th October. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Training, Human Resources, and Customer Service

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage, Human Resources Services, and Staffing and Recruiting

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