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Senior People Business Partner - Operations
Full-time, Permanent
Remote role with some travel including to our practices across the UK
The Role
As the Senior People Business Partner, you will be a commercially focused and trusted adviser, this role will provide strategic HR partnering to the Operations senior leader and leadership team. This role will be a positive disrupter, building strong relationships quickly to innovate and accelerate plans to meet ambitious business needs and is able to mobilise change effectively.
Across a complex and multi-region, multi-site and diverse organisation, you will lead development of the Operations people strategy and provide strong people leadership and guidance, provoking change to build a high performance culture. You will lead with a consistent approach to the Operations Team, that will ensure an organisation future fit to support the Bupa Dental Care (BDC) strategy and longer-term goals.
What will I be doing?
- In partnership with the Operations Director, Head of People and CoEs, develop the people strategy for Operations with a plan for delivery and ensure implementation aligned with the business strategy and performance outcomes.
- Develops and fosters key relationships with Operations Director and their leadership team, act as the senior point for HR expertise in support of the business strategy/people plan, proactively addresses people risk and opportunity, acts as a conduit to specialist and delivery People team services to support this.
- Works with the Operations leadership team to ensure a consistent approach cross-BDC and workforce & talent/succession plan and organisation design that ensures right people / right skills / right place & time / right cost in the operation.
- Collaborates with People team COEs (Heads Of and their teams) to ensure cross functional support that drives forward the business objectives and the people plan.
- Partners with the Operations leadership team to build an approach to a learning and high performance culture through capability development, continuous learning, and ensuring the business is future-fit.
- Works with business leadership to develops and execute plans that promote a highly inclusive and engaged workforce across BDC.
- Leads / works on pan BDC and MU projects with the Head of People / People Director as appropriate.
What do I need?
- Commercial Acumen: Understands the commercial aspects of the business and how to develop a holistic people plan that will support and enhance business performance.
- Partnering: Must have worked in a senior HR role within a diverse and multi-site environment supporting the operations.
- Strategic Thinking: Proven ability to develop and implement people strategies that align with business goals and drive performance improvement. Creates consistency in approach across multi-region.
- Cross team Collaboration: Strong track record and experience of collaborating with / leveraging all aspects of HR e.g. recruitment, reward, engagement, talent, development etc to improve business performance on a sustainable basis.
- Leadership & Influencing: experience of a partnering and influencing senior leaders to achieve business objectives and improve performance.
- Managing Change: Successful record of influencing delivering cultural and behavioural change in a complex business environment.
- Generalist HR experience gained within a relevant market and/or industry – exposure to a Healthcare/Retail/Hospitality/Consumer led environment would be hugely beneficial.
About You
- Customer Focus: strong customer orientation, with an outcome focus, and proven ability to collaborate across business areas and teams.
- Relationship Builder: Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships with senior leaders, peers and colleagues.
- Communicator: Strong communicator, able to think commercially and be led by data.
- Problem-Solver & Data Led: The ability to diagnose and address issues and challenges proactively and effectively, uses data and analytics to inform decisions and measure the impact of people initiatives.
- Curious: Growth mindset and challenges the status quo.
- Agile: Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and environments, and to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Coach & Mentor: Able to coach leaders appropriately and act as sounding board for senior leaders
The benefits here are industry-leading, and we’ll be able to tell you more about them in the process (or jump to the benefits and rewards page on our careers site for a flavour). But here’s a snapshot:
- 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more.
- Discounts in over 7,000 retailers, discounted gym membership and discounted dental insurance (of course).
- Health Trust - our bespoke employee private healthcare plan, providing healthcare cover with no medical underwriting for colleagues and their families.
- Access to remote GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, and mental health support.
- MyHealthcare Allowance, an annual allowance which is redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products.
- Early access to your earned wages through Wagestream.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- And many more, just ask…
If you or someone you know would be interested in working with a dynamic and expanding healthcare business, with lots of support on offer, great benefits and friendly teams, we would love to hear from you!
Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.
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