Job Title: HR Business Partner (Exclusive)
Location: Belfast
Introduction/Overview
VANRATH has partnered exclusively with a leading UK-based organisation, with offices in Belfast to appoint an HRBP for the region. The role will be focused on delivering a strategic people agenda across a complex, multi-site environment. The role combines workforce planning, organisational design and employee relations expertise with strong commercial insight to support business performance.
Salary & Benefits
- Up to £55,000
- Excellent pension
- Heavily discounted rates for use of company facilities
- Half-day Fridays
About You / Candidate Requirements
- MCIPD qualified HR professional with a strong academic background, ideally including a Master's degree in Human Resources or a related discipline.
- Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to interpret financial and operational data, including key performance and balance sheet indicators.
- Up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of employment law and its practical application in complex workplace situations.
- Solid understanding of learning, talent development and organisational development principles.
- Proven experience operating as a senior HR professional in a standalone or senior advisory capacity within a commercially driven, multi-site or complex organisation.
- Extensive hands-on experience managing employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, attendance and performance matters.
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex organisational change, including restructures, TUPE, redundancy, redeployment and employment tribunal processes.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to apply sound judgement in complex and fast-moving environments.
- Experience coaching and developing managers to improve leadership effectiveness and people management capability.
- Experience designing and delivering engaging training sessions to support capability and organisational objectives.
What You'll Do / Key Responsibilities
- Gain a strong understanding of regional performance and key workforce indicators, using insight from financial and operational data to inform effective people planning.
- Shape and deliver a forward-looking, prioritised workforce strategy aligned to wider organisational goals, ensuring initiatives are implemented successfully.
- Lead ongoing review and enhancement of organisational design and staffing models to ensure agility, efficiency and effectiveness.
- Use workforce analytics to anticipate future capability and resourcing needs, developing short, medium and long-term plans in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Champion internal mobility and career development pathways to support talent growth, engagement and retention.
- Ensure robust delivery of learning, training and compliance requirements, identifying skills gaps and supporting targeted development solutions.
- Lead and support significant organisational change programmes, including restructures, TUPE activity, service openings and closures, and role redesign.
- Build trusted and constructive relationships with employee representatives, supporting meaningful consultation and negotiation where required.
- Coach and empower managers to strengthen leadership capability, improve employee engagement and reduce employee relations issues.
- Ensure consistent, fair and compliant application of HR policies and practices across the region, embedding high standards throughout.
For further information on this job, or any other HR role in Northern Ireland, apply via the link or contact Richard McFarland for a confidential chat today. VANRATH acts as an agency and employment business for permanent recruitment and the supply of temporary workers.
Skills:
CIPD Union experience ER
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