HR Business Partner - Fixed Term Contract

Competitive salary and remuneration package including, 27 days holiday, pension contributions matched up to 9%,\\nFlexible working with some opportunity for hybrid working ideally 3 days onsite in Cambridge\\nMarshall, an independent, family-owned British company, proudly helping our customers move forwards since 1909\\nThis is a 12 month fixed term contract \\n\\nOur Opportunity\\n\\nWe have an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR Business Partner to support one of our key business lines at Marshall. This role is a 12 month fixed term contract based in Cambridge.\\n\\nThe responsibilities in this role include:\\n\\nIdentify, develop and deliver organisation and people opportunities to implement the HR strategic plan within the functions.\\nPartner with and influence the functional leadership team to implement effective and consistent workforce strategies, plans and programmes, minimising people risks, monitoring impact against agreed standards and taking remedial action as required.\\nTo develop strong and effective employee engagement approaches with both the employee and union representatives where necessary.\\nTo provide sound advice on all HR issues such as reward, performance, change, culture and leadership\\nDevelop and deliver robust workforce plans, ensuring alignment and integration of the functional Strategy and in line with budget.\\nAct as a coach for the leadership team, providing advice, guidance and appropriate challenge. Act as a role model by demonstrating a collaborative and influencing style, negotiating with others to achieve best outcomes.\\nTo provide HR operational support to own all group functions\\nLead and support on employee relations issues including negotiations, case management and appeals within the group functions.\\nAnalyse and reports key workforce metrics and trends across the group functions and use insight and business knowledge to diagnose issues, identifying and recommending opportunities for business improvement.\\nProactively influence senior leaders to identify and respond to people issues and opportunities to maximise the effectiveness of their people and facilitate delivery of operational and strategic plans.

\\n\\nYour key focuses will include:\\n\\nAct as a people partner to functional leadership teams, develop thorough understanding of the business plans and HR issues to ensure that workforce requirements are identified and support planned and delivered in a timely basis.\\nTo work review the workforce/resourcing plans with your management teams and to ensure proactive information sharing back to the Resourcing team so they can proactively ensure plan resource requirements.\\nAct as trusted adviser, coach and consultant to our people managers by building strong relationships and providing a commercial people perspective.\\nAct as a change agent to proactively facilitate and deliver improvements to services. To support change management projects which impact on staff, working collaboratively with managers to achieve the desired business plan outcomes\\nTo use HR metrics to monitor performance, highlighting areas of concern for discussion and action with leadership/management teams\\nLead and provide creative solutions to complex ER challenges, keeping abreast of all legislative changes and best practice, implementing solutions in line with company values and policy.\\nProvide Tier 2 level employee relations support within group functions and work closely with HR colleagues to proactively identify and influence changes to improve the HR service delivery from the central HR team (1st and 3nd Tier support)..\\nSupport employee well-being initiatives\\nBuild and maintain constructive working relationships with employee representatives and Unions and support consultation where required\\nWork closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale and increase productivity and retention\\nProvide Employee Relations support for organisational change, new business, TUPE and restructuring activity\\nTake proactive steps to deliver support in the functions to enhance employee relations (may include management skills development/ employee awareness training)\\nSupport annual and ad hoc projects/Initiatives across the support functions\\nSupport the Heads of HR with any activity linked to the HR calendar e.g. Reward – Pay Review and Bonus, Talent – Talent Reviews, PDR's etc s\\nCollaborate across HR to deliver practical and effective solutions to the business and support functions where necessary\\nTo contribute to the Marshall HR agenda with the Centres of Expertise, Service Delivery and other HR colleagues.

\\n\\nThe successful candidate will demonstrate most of the following:\\n\\nExperience across the full HR spectrum/life cycle is essential, being able to demonstrate operational experience and potential for strategic thinking.\\nHas held a similar level role previously\\nSector experience is not important although experience of culture change and a unionised environment is useful\\nChange management experience\\nAble to make links between business strategy and HR interventions\\nProven work experience as an HR business partner\\nExcellent people management skills\\nCIPD level 7 desirable \\n\\nThe benefits we will offer you include:\\n\\n27 days holiday increasing with service up to 30 days (option to buy /sell)\\nPension contributions up to 9%\\nPrivate medical insurance for you and your partner\\nExtensive flexible benefit program including Cycle to Work\\nLife assurance at 4x basic salary\\nEnhanced parental leave and pay\\nPaid volunteering leave\\nAccess to industry leading wellbeing resources and tools \\n\\n#LI-Hybrid\\n\\n#LI-DS1