HR Project Partner

HR Project Partner - AI and Technology

Location: Hybrid working must be able to access London or Manchester with ease

Sector: Technology

Salary: £60-75,000 + benefits

Our Client is a leading provider of cloud-based AI solutions a true R& D innovator trusted by the world’s largest, fastest growing, and most innovative organisations. Please reach out if you are interested in joining the future of AI!

We are seeking an exceptional HR Project Manager to innovate within the organisation creating future thinking and future proofing AI and technology based initiatives within the Human Resources function with a strong process mindset and a focus and commitment to driving excellence across the HR agenda. In this pivotal role, you will oversee strategic talent and organisational initiatives. As an important HR leader you will collaborate with colleagues within AI, R&D and tech development teams driving alignment between HR and business objectives, while fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, possess exceptional organisational skills, are a self-starter and passionate about driving impactful change within the HR landscape, we invite you to join our Client’s team and shape the future of their organisation.

The role:

• Lead and manage the programmes and projects for People/HR team
• Lead steering teams and project execution forum to ensure execution against committed timelines and goals.
• Partners with the CHRO to ensure alignment of programs and timely planning and execution.
• Partner with the broader HR organisation to ensure the application of best practices across all key talent and organisational programs.
• Generate and oversee an annual calendar of programs and events for HR and lead the processes necessary to deliver on HR programs such as developing blue sky HR initiatives
• Run and support the development of the HR strategic plan and annual operating plan.
• Operate as the lead HR led talent and organisational programs which are often associated with delivering on key business goals and objectives.
• Build key HR and business partner relationships across the organisation
• HR related programs and generalist HR work to ensure alignment with corporate strategies, business strategies and divisional priorities and work closely with divisional contacts/partners to align divisional HR strategy with overall COE initiatives.
• HR champion for the organisation
• Acts as a liaison with stakeholders and effectively communicates program expectations to team members and stakeholders in a timely and clear fashion.
• Communicates updates by preparing standard status reports, and by participating in departmental and customer project status update meetings.
• Conducts life cycle postmortems and communicates lessons learned to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements.
• Generate regular and ad-hoc reports from the HR systems. Develop and maintain reports summarising development or functional projects and HR specific data. Interpret and prepare executive summaries. Make recommendations in accordance with findings.
• Establish a high level of proficiency in the HR Dashboards and ensure the effective use of data in generating important KPIs for all key HR programs and initiatives.
• Support team members and sometimes the leader of programs for various culture, engagement, and community initiatives.
• Help in the creation and maintenance of team sites to organisation divisional dashboards and metrics.
• Work professionally and productively in a deadline driven environment and maintains standards and service levels regarding all assigned tasks including department inquiries, HR related data, and all other HR documentation updates.

The person:

• Degree educated, or equivalent
• Deep HR business partnering and HR project management and or HR change management experience
• Successful delivery in project management
• Lean Six Sigma Certification preferred.
• Experience building strategic and engaging presentations, updating and organising data and content, and working with surveys and associated technology.
• Ability to execute through leveraging competency in collaboration, relationship building, and communication.
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Windows applications (Word, PowerPoint and Excel), in addition to a curiosity to learn new AI technologies and develop blue sky initiatives in this space in conjunction with the tech development and AI functions
• Self-starter, capable of assessing a complex and ambiguous situation, making the right decision and following through with minimum supervision.
• Ability to handle extremely confidential and sensitive information.
• Requires high degree of concentration and attention to detail.
• Highly organised. Ability to prioritise and balance multiple projects at one time.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact and communicate with all levels of the workplace.
• Non-HR experience welcomed but holds a passion for learning HR practices and tools.

To apply please email your CV