People and Culture Business Partner in Abingdon

Location: Hybrid with access to Conscia offices in Abingdon, Portchester, and Royal Wootton Bassett.

Reporting to: People & Culture Director

Conscia Overview: Conscia is a leading provider of cybersecurity, networking, hybrid cloud, and observability solutions for mission-critical IT infrastructure in large European organisations. Conscia’s experts design, implement, and run innovative, customised IT solutions across these areas, supporting our customers throughout their technology lifecycles.

People and Culture: We believe our company culture is part of what makes Conscia special. We’re dedicated to nurturing a positive and inclusive culture, empowering people to bring their whole selves to work each day. Our goal is to foster an environment where people feel valued, heard, and supported, and where they can thrive and succeed. This is reflected in our values: Inspire Trust, Commit to Collaborate, Deliver on Promise, Learn for Life, and Embrace Sustainable Change, as well as our EVP “Secure YOUR progress” based on the four pillars of Knowledge, Impact, Growth, and Flexibility.

The Role: What YOU will be doing at Conscia:

• Support the People & Culture Director to deliver the People strategy.
• Support the People & Culture Director with ER cases and provide suitable advice to managers.
• Responsible for the maintenance, regular updates, change requests, and flows implementation of the Group HR platform (HiBob) as well as providing relevant training and promoting adoption with employees.
• Keep up to date with the latest UK Employment Law regulations and work with the People & Culture Director to regularly review, update, and develop policies to ensure compliance.
• Maintain the suite of document templates, e.g., employment contracts, variation to contract letters, end of probation, terminations/resignations, etc. Ensure they are kept up to date, relevant, and in line with contractual and statutory requirements.
• Generate employment contracts and variations to contracts in line with authorised management requests.
• Run HR induction sessions for new employees.
• Promptly address employees’ HR queries.
• Support the People & Culture Director to provide any payroll changes/updates for the monthly payroll sign-off calls with the Finance Team.
• Assist in the HR processes, including starters and leavers, employment checks, induction, mandatory/other training, probationary period review, performance and development review, maternity/paternity/shared parental leave, flexible working requests, absence management.
• Lead and manage all recruitment activity, ensuring good governance around recruitment processes, supporting managers with recruitment admin and leading on cultural fit interviewing.
• Run the half-yearly review processes via HiBob.
• Attend regular meetings with the wider Group People & Culture team to implement group HR initiatives as well as influencing and sharing best practices.
• Manage the administration of the full range of employees’ benefits in collaboration with the Finance Team.
• Run regular people analytics and reports from HiBob to be shared with the Finance Team as well as Group.
• Work with the ESG & Communications Manager to develop and implement ESG, social, and wellbeing initiatives.

Skills, experience and effective behaviours: What YOU can bring to Conscia:

• Able to work independently, with minimal supervision.
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law and ACAS Code of Practice.
• True HR Generalist experience across the full employee lifecycle.
• High emotional IQ and empathy.
• Lives and breathes the Conscia EVP and values.
• Trusted advisor for employees.
• Experience in dealing with ER cases and confidential matters.
• Excellent communication skills and able to effectively work across all levels of the organisation.
• Keeps up to date with the latest HR best practices and trends, including employee wellbeing.
• Ideally qualified to CIPD Level 3 or above.

Our benefits package: What YOU can expect from Conscia:

• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays and a buy/sell holiday scheme where you can buy/sell up to 5 days each year.
• A day off for your birthday.
• Up to 40 days of occupational sick pay.
• Life assurance.
• Private healthcare and EAP.
• Electric vehicle lease scheme.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Voucher rewards through YuLife.
• A positive and supportive culture to help you bring your best self to work.

We value diversity and want our people to bring their best to work. Please let us know if you may need any support or reasonable adjustments during the interview process.