HR Partner

Vanderlande is the global market leader in automation systems and solutions for customers within the Airports, Parcel & Warehousing sectors striving to improve the competitiveness of our customers through Value Added logistic process automation. If you are passionate about creating a great employee experience, People Services is the place for you! This role is central to maintaining a cohesive and positive working environment within the HR team, so being hands on and ready to help with whatever comes up is essential. This is a great opportunity for any individual who wants to make a direct impact on people and culture.

Role Responsibilities

• Understanding the profile of the business area, the strategic goals and developing, agreeing and delivering an operationally aligned People Plan, in conjunction with our corporate and local HR strategy, to support business goals.
• Partnering and collaborating with senior/management teams, to provide pragmatic and viable solutions to bring the people agenda to life as a highly credible and trusted generalist.
• Provide coaching and guidance to managers on best practice with regard to a wide variety of employee related matters.
• Lead initiatives and programmes which deliver positive employee engagement, including leadership of our Glint engagement survey and action planning to continually build on strengths and opportunity areas.
• Lead the development of UK-wide HR policies, processes, and values that are both compliant with legislation and match best practice, including all statutory compliance programmes such as Gender Pay reporting, Modern Slavery statement requirements and IR35 compliance.
• Support ad-hoc projects and activities related to People Services.
• Be the subject-matter expert on all employee relations issues, including capability, absence management, health, redundancy, to ensure successful and timely resolution and mitigation of risk.
• Coach managers to build capability, encouraging them to think through issues and giving them confidence and knowledge to handle difficult and sensitive matters whilst ensuring they fully understand the risk/implications.
• Collaborate with the People Services lead to understand and implement processes, focusing on employee experience and continuous improvement of employee life events.
• Identify service issues, proactively propose improvements and lead or support the implementation of changes.
• Collaborate with our global team on rolling out and sequencing of all global-led HR initiatives, tailoring and prioritising programmes as appropriate, analyzing and assessing the risks associated with individual programmes, including the impact on employees, teams and wider business.
• Deliver locally on global HR processes across the full Employee LifeCycle, covering Performance Management, Career Development and Succession Planning.
• Be part of one or more capability expert communities to bring in the People Services perspective in the overall maintenance and improvement of HR capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement – design, deliver and improve local key people initiatives and processes to ensure best-class service.

Role Qualification and Skills

• Passionate about providing a proactive and value-add HR service.
• Any exposure to Union relationships and TUPE will be well received.
• Strong project management and demonstrable experience in leading significant projects and policy roll out.
• A flexible self-starter with strong initiative, excellent organisational and multitasking skills capable of working autonomously, managing and prioritising workload and understanding when and where to seek guidance.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment legislation, policies and procedures and best practices.
• Ideally full/part CIPD qualified.
• Proven ability to work with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience working in a matrix organisation in conjunction with central functions & delivery partners.
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate across diverse groups and levels.
• At least 5 years of experience in HR.