People Partner

Role: HR Advisor/ Generalist
Location: Camberley – Hybrid (2-3 days in the office required)

Salary: £36,060 (with benefits)

Duration: 18 x month contract

Purpose:

To act as a trusted partner offering support across UK and Ireland on policy expertise and knowledge to support and educate leaders, managers, and associates on all P&O topics on the moments that matter from hire to retire.

Support all customer groups in UK and Ireland enabling delivery of lifecycle events, performance management, employee relations, rewards, talent management, learning, pay and reporting.

In addition, implement P&O change initiatives at a country level acting as detailed designers and agents of change by working with P&O Head.

Major Accountabilities:

• Partnering and coaching managers and associates on People related Processes and Moments that matter.

• Drives P&O initiatives, supporting the overall P&O strategy.

• Advise on and handle diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels, e.g., gender. representation, LGBTI, pay equity.

• Champions culture and supports implementation of corporate initiatives (e.g., Evolve).

• Coach and guides people managers on role evaluations in line with local governance.

• Design new hire onboarding initiatives.

• Drive buy-in and utilization of data and analytics to identify risk and trends, and to apply these business insights to inform decisions and actions.

• Drive D&I efforts and align with global or local initiatives / implementation.

• Drives quality, effectiveness, efficiency, and continuous improvement for P&O People Partnering and related processes.

• Embrace customer feedback to understand the customer journey with moments that matter and drives continuous improvement. Implement enhancements and modification as necessary to meet both the business and customer needs.

• First point of escalation for all leaders and managers on their day-to-day P&O topics, providing expert advice, guidance, and support.

• Lead the delivery of in-country transformations, consult, and negotiate with local employee representatives / unions, provide advice and guidance for managers through the local process.

• Lead the execution of local implementation of large-scale organisational and day-to-day organisational structure changes, in line with country regulations / policies.

• Lead alignment and harmonization of local regulations with P&O Head; monitors compliance, risk management and review P&O controls with P&O team.

• Manage internal movement offers and mobility.

• Promotes the contribution of ideas and solutions to the P&O network.

• Provide credible P&O People Partnering to people leaders, manager and associates offering advice and guidance on the moments that matter.

• Seek to establish strong relationships with cluster P&O community members to understand needs and challenges and drive continuous improvement.

• Support and coach leaders, manager and associates on all P&O topics including promoting self-sufficiency in people processes.

• Support Talent Acquisition on Compensation &Benefit and other P&O related matters.

• Provide an overview of Information and consultation on a country level into ER champion workstream.

• Lead and support on Speak Up investigations and enquires for UK&I.

• Act as a key liaison for understanding local considerations and timelines when implementing global guidance and initiatives.

• Implement global and local ER guidelines.

• Secure employment law advice as needed to ER related matters and country laws and regulations.

• Develop policies for Ireland as a recent acquisition into the UK Business

• Bespoke administrative tasks for Ireland a recent acquisition into the UK Business

• Supporting on becoming a standalone organisation

Education and Qualifications:

•CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

• Language(s) - English

Experiences:

•Workday experience

•Collaborating across boundaries

•Functional Breadth

•Leading large and/or diverse multi-functional teams

•Operations Management and Execution

•Project Management

•Representing the organization

•UK ER knowledge

•Agile mindset & dealing with ambiguity