People Partner - 12 Month FTC

This job is with Global, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community.

Your Role: People Partner

As a People Partner at Global, you will work closely with the people partners to organise the team's workload and priorities. You will take the lead on department projects and act as a point of contact for the partnering team as well as managers and leaders across the department. You will play a key role in coaching and guiding on our People policies and procedures, managing employee relations issues and supporting key people initiatives. You'll work with the Head of/People Director in driving the people strategies, fostering a positive workplace culture, and ensuring alignment with organisational goals.

Key Responsibilities

• Employee Relations (30%): You'll act as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, owning Employee Relations cases end-to-end. This includes managing disciplinaries, grievances, and other ER matters, ensuring they are handled fairly, consistently, and in line with company policy and employment legislation.
• Strategic alignment (15%): You'll work closely with the Head of People/People Director along with the Senior Leads to help shape the people strategies to support them.
• Change management (15%): You'll be a key driver in running our change programmes, ensuring managers and leaders deliver change effectively.
• Performance management (10%): You'll drive and implement performance management processes ensuring alignment with the department's goals.
• People data and metrics (10%): You'll pull key people data to support in making and identifying key decisions, presenting recommendations to Global leads.
• Culture and engagement (10%): You'll champion initiatives to enhance Global's culture utilising our engagement surveys to identify areas of improvement.
• People projects and initiatives (10%): You'll lead and support HR-related projects and initiatives, working with stakeholders to ensure delivery is well-managed, aligned to business needs, and embedded effectively.

What You'll Love About This Role

• Think Big: You'll contribute to creating a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
• Own It: No two days will be the same. From handling employee relations, supporting with recruitment to running performance reviews.
• Keep it Simple: You'll address complex issues and situations and find simple effective ways to navigate through them.
• Better Together: Being a trusted advisor, helping Globallers and managers navigate workplace challenges.

What Success Looks Like

• Developed an in-depth knowledge of your business areas, including their challenges, commercial priorities and people related risk areas.
• Become a trusted partner for managers and Globallers with the ability to provide actionable guidance.
• Able to quickly support with the employee lifecycle, from recruitment, onboarding, performance and off-boarding.
• Identify impactful opportunities across the team or department from simplifying a process to resolving a persistent issue.
• You'll feed into and understand how the people strategy aligns with the departments goals.

What You'll Need

• People experience: A proven People Partner with strength in employee relations, employee lifecycle, talent identification and development, culture and succession planning.
• Business acumen and commerciality: Proven ability to understand overall business objectives and work within a commercial, growth-focused business.
• Delivery excellence: The ability to implement at pace with a track record for effective delivery. Ability to manage change and spot opportunities to minimise complexity.
• People management: Have a breadth of People Partner experience in an ever-changing environment. The ability to develop effective working relationships, with the ability to influence and motivate others.
• Communication: Strong communicator with a logical, structured, clear, credible and mature style. Capable of quickly engaging audiences of all levels.
• Analytical and data-driven approach: Will have analytical capability, experience of managing and analysing People metrics to find root causes and develop short, medium and long term plans.