HR Business Partner
HR Business Partner
The location of the role is Barnard Castle (hybrid working).
The duration of the contract is 8 months.
The pay rate on offer is £30 - £33 per hour (via PAYE).
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR Business Partner to provide leadership for a range of HR activities to enable leaders and their teams to deliver the business strategy. This role sits within our Global Supply Chain, Biologics and Device Manufacturing HR team focusing on a critical UK site reporting to the HR Site Lead.
As an experienced HR Manager, you will primarily support the Barnard Castle site (c900), partnering with the business to support execution of the people plan, applying local context and experience to drive business change and impact.
You will play a key role in the following areas:
- Organisational Design
- Change Management
- Leadership development
- Culture and capability
- Engagement
Key accountabilities of the role
- Lead and drive the effective delivery of diverse and complex change projects (i.e. culture change projects, workforce restructuring, organisation design, etc.) in support of the business’s strategic agenda. Champion and influence senior leaders to effectively lead change.
- Lead initiatives that enable the organisation to have the best leaders at all levels, with the right capabilities to motivate, focus, develop and care for the people and a culture of purpose and performance.
- Grow leader’s leadership and people management capability to enable them to build high-performing teams; provide input, constructive feedback, and healthy challenge in a way that builds trust and enables the team and individuals to be most effective in their roles
- Drive best in class talent management and succession planning in the area supported to build a high quality, diverse talent pipeline that supports business growth now and in the future.
- Apply business insight to diagnose future capability gaps – Future workforce mapping and capability planning, succession planning and talent management
- Coach and challenge leaders to increase diversity through talent management and recruitment, identifying opportunities to bring through / bring in diverse talent and challenging bias within talent activities.
- Use data and analytic tools and processes to diagnose issues, inform execution of the people strategy and drive best in class leadership and organisation effectiveness.
- Successfully manage and track progress of the area supported against key HR milestones, deliverables, and metrics.
- Partner with various HR delivery channels to support Site level initiatives and assist with delivery of HR CoE and/or People Services special projects. Working as OneHR to deliver HR services to the business.
- Ensure HR risks are mitigated, company reputation is protected and related financial, legal and policy duties are carried out. Manage escalations and support the business to create a positive employee environment. Support resolution of site IR issues and partner with ER Services to implement strategies to mitigate issues and/or enhance performance.
- Promote learning, leadership development and coaching opportunities with business leaders
- Improve leaders’ ability to develop all employees to reach their full potential.
- Build manager capability in informal stage Employee Relations processes.
- Manage Industrial Relations risks, partnering with Union and employee representatives.
- Be disciplined in reducing customisation and champion our investment in new technology, regional hubs, standardised tools and processes within HR.
- Able to be on site for a minimum of four days per week
Key skills and experience
- We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Degree or professional certification in related discipline or equivalent experience
- Strong HR Generalist experience
- Proven experience in restructuring within the UK context
- Skilled in Union engagement
- Experience supporting a business unit or function, delivering on the HR agenda within their remit and aligning to the strategy and its needs.
- Competent at working with data to create insight and diagnose future risks and opportunities
- Experience of leading and influencing indirect teams
- Experience of working on Culture or Inclusion projects and initiatives