HR Business Partner - London

An opportunity has arisen for an individual that is looking for an exciting strategic HR challenge. You will be a member of the Capgemini Core Services UK HR Business Partnering Community and will play an integral part in the strategic delivery of the people agenda. Partnering with the UK Invent business, the key purpose is developing a strong relationship with and becoming a trusted advisor to the leadership team. The HR Business Partner must understand the UK business strategy in order to align the people agenda and then deliver on it.

This role will contribute to the fulfilment of the overall Invent HR strategy and will be accountable for ensuring efficient and effective delivery of the HR processes and other critical initiatives. The role is strategically focused delivering in the areas of reward, talent, capability development, performance management and employee engagement.

Your role

• Deliver the HR strategy and contribute to the people agenda through projects and initiatives.
• Build effective and long-lasting, trusted relationships with key business stakeholders including senior leadership, Centres of Excellence (recruitment, compensation, HR Services, etc).
• Deliver the Invent people priorities for the business areas you will be partnering with, focusing on attracting, developing and engaging talent.
• Lead and deliver projects across the UK HRBP Community.
• Drive overall process improvements, e.g. talent development, succession planning, recruitment, HR policies.
• Develop and grow the capabilities of our talent and skills needed for the future success of the business.
• Deliver strategic compensation, recognition and reward initiatives including pay and bonus.
• Drive employee engagement in your business areas.
• Champion D&I initiatives which will support us maintain the right inclusive and diverse environment for employees to be at their best.
• Support acquisitions and transfer of employees as appropriate.
• Take a leading role across the HR team and UK HRBP Community; role modeling behaviours, professional growth, and coaching HR Managers.
• Draw insight and drive strategy through data and analytics for your business areas.
• Demonstrate an innovative, proactive, solutioning approach, promoting best practice.

You can bring your whole self to work. At Capgemini, building an inclusive future is part of everyday life and will be part of your working reality. We have built a representative and welcoming environment, for everyone.

Your skills and experience

• Strong generalist HR experience operating at a strategic level.
• Extensive experience of building trusting relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, in a matrixed environment and adaptable to rapid change.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment, is an inquisitive self-starter and leader.
• Demonstrable commercial awareness.
• Excellent communication skills with structured and logical thinking.
• Articulate and diplomatic communicator who can engage with a wide network of stakeholders and manage expectations.
• Change Management experience, able to lead change while coaching others through it.
• Be able to prioritise effectively and successfully manage multiple projects whilst working to tight deadlines.
• An excellent team player with the ability to successfully collaborate with colleagues acting as part of one HR team.
• CIPD qualified.

What does ‘Get The Future You Want’ mean for you?

Competitive total reward package. We realise a Total Reward package should be more than just compensation. At Capgemini, we offer a range of core and flexible benefits and have a Peer Recognition Portal called Applaud.

Your wellbeing

You’d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce as a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing, we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market-leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.