Associate HR Business Partner

Overview

Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets. Fastmarkets\’ data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 700 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland and beyond.

We are seeking an experienced Associate HRBP to play a pivotal role in supporting both the day-to-day operations of the business and its broader people agenda. You will partner with managers across a range of HR processes, including employee relations, change, performance, and talent management. Reporting to one of our Heads of HR (Business Partnering), you will take a proactive approach to ensure issues are addressed efficiently, communications are clear, and managers are empowered to support their teams effectively.

Responsibilities

• Assist across a range of employee relations matters, including conflict resolution, disciplinary actions, grievances
• Work with managers to design, implement, monitor and where necessary, escalate performance improvement plans (PIP’s)
• Organise employee relations cases and change projects, drafting correspondence and organising evidence and consultation documents
• Gather metrics from HRIS, ATS, HR Ops to produce reports and dashboards for Heads of HR, senior managers and SLT members, giving insights based on data to drive value
• Conduct exit survey and interviews of all leavers and provide regular insights to the team
• Assist with talent review process
• Organise and maintain employee relations materials
• Provide proactive advice and guidance to managers on employee relations issues, helping to prevent potential conflicts and mitigate risks
• Educate employees and managers on company policies, procedures, and best practices to promote a positive work culture and maintain legal compliance
• Support our Learning and Development team to deliver training programs and workshops for managers and employees on topics related to conflict resolution, communication skills, and employee relations best practices
• Identify potential risks and liabilities related to employee relations matters and work to proactively mitigate them
• Supporting on project activity as appropriate (e.g. onboarding, alignment of people policies, employee surveys, D&I etc.)

Key Interfaces

• Head of HR
• HR Operations team
• Payroll Specialist
• People managers and leaders across Fastmarkets

Qualifications

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on.

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Human resources experience, with a focus on supporting employee relations processes
• An understanding of employment law, regulations, and best practices in the UK
• An understanding of international HR practices is desirable but not essential
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport and effectively resolve conflicts
• Experience working in a fast paced, changing environment
• Ability to handle sensitive employee matters with confidentiality and professionalism
• Understanding of key HR metrics, ability to produce reports (HRIS, Excel)
• Experience using HR Information Systems (HRIS), HiBob experience advantageous
• Ability to work methodically through work as well as show initiative to change and process improvement
• CIPD Level 3 or above preferred

If you\\\’re excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don\\\’t perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.

Additional Information

Our Values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It’s this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common – and they form our Fastmarkets values.

Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they\\\’re embedded in everything we do. Our values are:

• METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers’ experience and our business performance
• ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done
• GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency
• INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day.
• CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do
• COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity of intellect, perspectives, and experiences.

We are committed to ensuring all candidates feel welcomed and supported. Should your application advance and you require accommodations for the interview process, please inform us so we can make the necessary arrangements.

You’ve read a little about us – now it’s over to you!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.

It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great.