HR Business Partner in London

The Company Christie’s, the world’s largest Art Business, is an incredibly exciting and enriching place to start or continue your career. Whether you work within one of our Specialist Art Departments, or in one of our more Operational teams, we are all working together with one common goal in mind: to continue the success of this 250-year-old company, steeped in history, bringing fresh ideas whilst not forgetting our shared values; Integrity, Excellence, Innovation, Responsibility and Relationships. Colleagues across all departments are truly passionate about what they do and it is inspiring to work with industry leaders across our business.

Why This Role Matters The HR Business Partner will provide primary HR generalist support to the business, including the alignment of critical business objectives and people strategies. This person will develop and maintain a strong understanding of the business context, including divisional objectives, culture and key commercial drivers, to provide relevant and practical HR advice. They will partner closely with the other HR Business Partners, the HR Operations team, the Recruitment team, the Compensation and Benefits team on setting team compensation and the Learning and Development team on delivering training and development programmes. We believe this is a unique opportunity to join a truly committed and collaborative HR team.

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Build effective and influential partnership relationships with client groups to build morale, productivity and retention of talent.
• Mentor, coach and develop managers by proactively guiding your managers to be the strongest people leaders they can be and helping maintain the culture by coaching managers to hold their teams accountable and maintain an inclusive team culture.
• In partnership with the HR Director and business leaders, support change management activities and ensure organisational design and effectiveness are aligned to business strategy, culture, and performance goals.
• Be an ambassador for the HR Department initiatives and Christie’s, in particular on engagement initiatives and components of our responsible culture (ED&I, Wellbeing, CSR).
• Support Departments and managers on interpreting and driving appropriate change with the annual engagement survey.
• Advise, oversee and investigate on all employee relations matters as per the relevant jurisdiction.
• Manage and assist in the resolution of complex employee relations issues. Conduct effective, thorough and objective investigations.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements and HR policies related to day-to-day management of employees, mitigating against legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Provide day to day performance management guidance to line management (including coaching, career growth, development, disciplinary actions).
• Analyse overall trends and metrics in partnership with the HR team to establish areas of improvement and develop solutions.
• Use people and HR data insight to evaluate the impact of people initiatives, change programmes and interventions, supporting continuous improvement and effective prioritisation.
• Confidently present insights to senior stakeholders, clearly articulating implications, options and recommended actions.
• Negotiate contract terms for new promotions and transfers.
• Support leaders in identifying high potential talent and support succession planning activities for key roles.
• Identify training and development needs for departments and individuals, co-ordinating with the Learning and Development team.
• Provide guidance and input on departmental restructures, workforce planning and talent succession planning.
• Work collaboratively on projects including HR People Weeks, Wellbeing Weeks, consultant and contingent worker reviews.
• Work with recruitment team to implement recruitment processes.
• Assist with total remuneration and reward annual review recommendations and implementation.

What you’ll bring to the team:

• Strong HR generalist with experience operating in a partnering model.
• Demonstrates sound judgement with the ability to coach and support leaders through people-related decisions and challenges, escalating where appropriate.
• Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines including compensation practices, employee relations, diversity, performance management and employment law.
• Demonstrable experience in the resolution of complex employee relation issues.
• Excellent client management and business literacy skills.
• Strong conflict management skills.
• Strong collaboration, interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to develop relationships in order to gain support and achieve results.
• Proven experience managing multiple conflicting priorities.
• Experience working in environment with international objectives.
• Ability to understand issues domestically and internationally and communicate effectively with internal clients.
• Flexibility, availability and ability to interact with employees at all levels.
• Self-directed and motivated.

What’s great about working for us:

• 25 days annual leave + 1 day Birthday leave.
• Christie’s Christmas office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 2nd Jan) – in addition to annual leave: almost two weeks to fully switch off and spend time with friends and family.
• Additional 1 week’s annual leave within the year of a 5-year anniversary i.e. 5th, 10th, 15th and so on.
• Volunteering day: Take an additional day of annual leave to volunteer for a charitable organisation that’s important to you.
• Donation matching of up to £500 per annum to help you support the organisations you care about.
• Flexible Fitness Fund - £400 per year expense allowance for health and wellness related activity (taxable).
• Access to world-renowned art: with regular exhibitions in our galleries to wander around and exclusive guided tours hosted by specialist colleagues.
• Discretionary Bonus (dependent on the business and employee performance payable in March each year).
• Generous retirement plan: We will double match your pension contribution up to 5% of your basic salary (Max 10% contribution from Christie’s).
• Private Health Insurance – no employee contribution needed, subsidised for other family members.
• Dental Insurance – (may be extended at personal cost).
• Generous Income Protection Insurance in the event of accident, sickness or injury after 12 months.
• Competitive Life Insurance policy from first day.
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling.
• Eyecare vouchers (once a year).
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Christie’s Extras – discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops.
• Robust family first policy: 16 weeks full pay on Maternity Leave.
• Four-day week, for eight weeks, at full pay on return from Maternity Leave.
• Dependent back-up care: 10 sessions/ days of childcare or eldercare per year.
• The Stork Club: Our community of parents who meet regularly over breakfasts, lunch, afternoon tea.

Christie’s reserves the right to change company benefits at any time.

Closing Date: Sunday 17th May