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HR Business Partner, Group
Office Location: Triton Street
This role will benefit from our Hays Balanced Working agreement so will be based in our Triton Street office and from home. There will be occasional travel to our offices in other locations, as and when required.
At Hays, we believe in being long-term partners with our people as well as our customers. Together, we will work for your tomorrow, and the possibilities are endless.
With over 50 years of business success, we have built a reputation as the world leader in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions. But joining Hays isn't just about being part of a global business leader; together with over 12,000 people across 33 countries, you'll be making a difference in the world of work.
Your New Role
The new HR Business Partner, Group will be responsible for delivering proactive, commercial, and effective HR partnering to enable the strategic priorities of Hays. This role supports several of our Group functions, for example Technology, Group Finance, Group Marketing, Group People, Company Secretariat & Legal, and Group Product, Innovation & Data.
Reporting into the Head of HR. Group you will act as a thinking partner, key advisor and collaborator to these senior management teams, many of which are in different phases of evolution and change. You will work closely with them to shape, develop and deliver HR plans and solutions that drive the required business outcomes, enhancing employee experience and fostering a high performing culture. Alongside this you will be bring your expertise to enable delivery of key HR initiatives from across the HR spectrum, including organisation design and effectiveness, attracting, developing & retaining talent, employee relations, creating highly engaged and high performing teams, enabling and supporting change, and driving progress on our DEI and wellbeing agenda.
The role is divided into the following Key Areas:
Key Result Areas:
- Business Relationships & Strategic People Planning
- Performance Management & Development
- Talent Management & Recruitment
- Provision of Advice and Guidance/Employee Relations
Knowledge, qualifications and experience
- Experience operating as a HR business partner to senior stakeholders, ideally in a federated global organisation going through organisation change around processes, technology and people
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills, able to communicate and partner effectively with a variety of stakeholders in different functions
- Good commercial acumen, leadership and transformational skills
- Experience of delivery of Organisation Design change and other people-impacting change projects
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, agile environment
- An up-to-date and working knowledge of employment legislation, ideally with some knowledge of jurisdictions outside of the UK.
- Pragmatic: able to deliver HR guidance in a fast paced, complex environment, and communicates clearly and openly to win support.
- Business focused; able to deliver commercial solutions which also fit HR best practice requirements and demonstrate excellent operational planning skills
- Highly organised
- Able to problem solve and challenge the 'norm' whilst operating to HR best practice guidelines
- Comfortable with analysing data, identifying trends and making appropriate recommendations
- CIPD qualified desirable but not essential
What you will get in return
This is a truly unique opportunity to work in the strategic function of the Hays group business and collaborate with senior leaders to help shape tomorrow together.
Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you're thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let's work together to create it!
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.
