People Business Partner

Murphy is recruiting for a People Business Partner to work in our People team based in Leeds or Kentish Town.

Operating in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada and the USA, Murphy provides better engineered solutions to infrastructure sectors including transportation, water, power and natural resources. So that our teams out on projects can run smoothly it is vital that we have robust support functions in place.

We are committed to fostering an engaging and collaborative work environment in which each person’s career is nurtured and developed. We focus on employee development, providing a culture of innovation and positive work-life balance.

A day in the life of a Murphy People Business Partner

• Provide fully generalist HR support to key functional areas on a day to day basis
• Supporting the business to fully understand their key business performance issues, objectives and drivers, and associated people requirements for both the current and future business challenges
• Support the wider People team and business on People Reward & Recognition activity
• Manage benefits administration for core and flexible benefits, including renewals, resolving issues, and ensuring successful maintenance of employee reward & recognition schemes
• Contribute to the selection and management of appropriate external benefits providers, to ensure service quality, relevance, and commercial value
• Proactively seek ways to improve our benefits offering to remain competitive within the wider industry
• Responsible for the management and coordination of benefits renewals and enrolment processes
• Manage and develop the Reward communications calendar, activity and intranet content
• Provide pay and grading support using our existing framework and assume responsibility for the maintenance of our job families
• Manage the Promotion and Market Adjustment Process
• Support end-to-end annual pay and bonus process
• Provide appropriate and informative analysis, as required by the wider People Team and the wider business

Still interested, does this sound like you?

• Experience as a HR generalist supporting a monthly and weekly paid workforce
• Experience of working with reward and benefits data and reporting skills
• Qualified to at least CIPD Level 5
• Working knowledge of the following: recognition schemes| pension scheme types | insurance benefits e.g., private medical insurance, income protections insurance, and life assurance schemes, flexible benefits schemes, and benefits available, job design, compensation analysis and market data would be ideal
• Advanced Excel skills are essential (including Macro programming and pivot tables to enable quick and efficient data analysis)
• Able to develop positive working relationships across all levels of the organisation and the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

What’s in it for you?

• 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays with the option to buy an additional 2 days holiday each year, holidays increase with length of service
• Discretionary annual bonus and annual salary review
• Above market rate contributory pension scheme
• Life assurance, health screening and enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay and a maternity returners bonus
• Extra weeks holiday for all employees getting married and a wedding bonus
• Subsidised canteen facilities in core locations
• Dedicated and continued investment in your professional development
• Other Murphy benefits include retail discounts and cashback, discounted gym memberships, cycle to work scheme etc

About Murphy

Murphy is formally recognised as a sector leading employer, Gold Investors In People accredited along with reported operating profit up 57% on prior year. At Murphy, we are incredibly proud of our diverse workforce. Not only do our people represent over 60 different nationalities, but they also represent a wide range of backgrounds, ethnicities and ages. With a forward order book of £3.3b and £39m Invested in environmentally friendly plant there really is #MoretoMurphy

Murphy is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK