Morson Talent are currently working with a leading Global business to help them recruit an experienced Senior HR Business Partner. Our client employs more than 8,000 people and this role reports to the HR Director with a dotted line to the Business Unit Director that it is partnering with.
Location: Manchester - based on site 4 days per week
Salary: £65,000 - £80,000 PA, depending on experience + bonus.
Role purpose:
The Senior HR Business Partner proactively partners and collaborates with the Senior Management team to provide pragmatic and commercially focussed solutions to bring the People agenda to life and to support in the delivery of business strategy, by creating an environment of positive people management; ensuring we attract, develop and retain talented people who are fully engaged and aligned to the business's values.
You will partner across a broad range of areas including generalist HR, talent, development, employee relations, succession planning and performance management. You will collaborate with local, regional and global HR colleagues and HR Centres of Expertise to drive initiative delivery. You will coach and upskill leaders to build capability and drive the HR and broader organisational strategy.
Accountabilities and main responsibilities:
- Understand the profile of the business area, the strategic goals and use this, plus any people insight data, to identify, develop, agree and deliver a strategically aligned People Plan, that compliments the Divisional & HR Functional initiatives.
- Deliver a Business Partnering service to the business unit senior management team, whilst also acting as a trusted partner, coach and mentor for senior managers on people issues.
- Demonstrating a commercialism of approach and understanding with a high-level financial acumen to identify any key financial challenges.
- Leverage your strong business acumen to bring insight to support the business agenda and strategy, constructively challenging the business where needed and proactively develop solutions to deliver better outcomes aligned to business strategic objectives & needs.
- Collaborate with centres of excellence, specialist teams and internal or external providers to ensure delivery of Divisional/Function or Business people priorities.
- Partner the Senior Management Team to support the business in delivering their profit margin and growth targets on time and to agreed milestones. Demonstrating a commercialism of approach and understanding coupled with a high level awareness of the financial situation of the business/division and any key financial challenges.
- Analysis and interpretation of monthly HR MI, including assessment of trend data and performance against KPIs in order to drive the strategic direction, identify risks, issues and concerns from a people perspective and implement solutions to address any short, medium or long-term concerns; working with leaders to develop a clear business case for approval where applicable.
- Accountable for, and in partnership with the business, the delivery of a positive momentum in key people metrics (e.g. retention, employee engagement, diversity, equity and inclusion, and talent development etc) in line with the business/division people plan. Through the proactive utilisation of Management Information to identify key areas where HR can support and contribute to business improvement.
- Work in collaboration with Centres of Excellence including Talent & OD, Reward, Talent Acquisition, and HR systems to implement any global, regional or market initiatives and frameworks.
- Ensure the right people are in the right roles via effective workforce planning, to identify solutions to address Talent, diversity, skills and capability gaps across ‘go to market' products and operational functions and develop pipelines for capability required to deliver future success.
- If applicable (based on headcount) Lead and manage a HR resource providing support, direction and development as required and determine the resourcing needs of the team to deliver appropriate day to day support and delivery of projects.
- To advise Managers on complex employee relation cases, including management of Employment Tribunals, representing on behalf of the Company as appropriate.
- Act as HR lead on key projects including HR & Business Transformation
- Manage employee engagement, sustainability and performance management activities using globally agreed frameworks, tools and processes.
- Ambassador for purpose, values and behaviours of the organisation.
- Ensure compliance with agreed company and function standards.
- Remain abreast of market trends, functional best practices, and relevant competitor approaches; interpreting these to determine adjustments to ensure consistent delivery and deployment of best practice outcomes.