Senior HR Business Partner

An opportunity to combine HR Business Partnering skills and experience with Project Management Office capabilities. Reports to UKI HR Director. Individual Contributor, collaborating with HR Partner Teams, Centres of Excellence and Business Leaders.

Job Overview

Provide support and guidance to less experienced members of an HR team in their day-to-day operational roles. Support the continuous improvement of the HR function through development and implementation of HR programs in an assigned geography or business line. With limited guidance, provide comprehensive HR support to employees and management across assigned service areas, business units or departments. As HR Business Partner, with guidance, provide expertise, support and advice to assigned management teams either locally, regionally, globally or by function.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong and effective team relationships with HR specialist functions/Centers of Excellence.
• Support line managers in the process of new employee orientation where appropriate.
• Provide advice and guidance to more junior members of the HR team as appropriate.
• Conduct ad hoc reviews as directed and propose recommendations in handling employment legislation, compliance, HR systems, practices and procedures and, with guidance, provide support and education to line management.
• Participate as assigned, with minimal supervision, in working with senior HR team members for the day-to-day.
• With guidance, act as Business Partner to assigned business areas.
• Development and implementation of redesign and new local and global HR initiatives.
• With guidance, provide HR Partnering management coaching and counseling.
• Work with more experienced HR team members on organizational effectiveness and HR partnering change management efforts associated with reorganizations, mergers/acquisitions and transfers to ensure compliance to local legislation.
• Provide reports and analyses as requested by senior management.
• Support line managers in the recruitment and selection process where appropriate.
• Manage HR-related queries and may work independently or in conjunction with senior members of the HR team and line management on issues.

PMO

• Work closely with HR Director and Snr HR Director, to drive UKI and North European (NE) People Strategies across country/geography in line with Priorities.
• Monitor strategic performance of team across priorities.
• Plan project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
• Collaborate with other department leaders and COEs to define, prioritize, and develop projects.
• Be the point of contact for all Global Project requests.
• Analyse financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation.
• Support UKI and NE HRPT initiatives across the team and measure impact.
• Prepare data analytics and materials for Functional Business Reviews.
• Analyse data analytics for the UKI country and North European country cluster and recommend actions accordingly.

Skills

• Proven work experience as a Project Management Officer or similar role.
• Strong leadership skills.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent organizational and technical abilities.
• Good interpersonal and multi-tasking skills.
• Relevant training and/or certifications as a Project Management Officer.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Creative vision to organise and present information.
• Data Analytical Ability.

Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree required.
• Typically requires 3-5 years prior relevant experience.
• 4 years experience within an HR function as generalist or combination of generalist and specialist experience.
• Equivalent combination of education, training and experience.