HR Business Partner (1 Year Contract) - Part-Time

As a Business Partner, you will work to enhance organizational performance, productivity and effectiveness through our people.   Partnering with operations leaders, your objective will be to support the achievement of organizational goals and objectives in a team setting.  Your role will have responsibility to support and deliver HR projects for our manufacturing operations and take responsibility for supporting change initiatives across your client groups.  You will play a key role in building people manager and leader capability, drive employee engagement and deliver operational outcomes to meet client needs. 

This is a 1-year fixed-term contract role.

Key focus areas:

People Operations Excellence

• Work closely with HR Shared Services and COEs to ensure policies and programs to support initiatives in line with HR and business priorities. Programs cover several or all of the following: recruiting, employee movements, employee relations, learning and development, human resources information systems, compensation and benefits, talent management and performance management)

• Provides day-to-day operations support and performance management guidance to line management- coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions

• Support regulatory reporting and audit compliance.

• Champion continual process improvement within HR processes.

Talent Management:

• Partner with operations leaders to translate business strategy into workforce plans that address current and future talent needs.

• Partner with business leaders to identify critical talent needs and build targeted strategies for attraction, development, engagement, and retention.

• Drive talent review processes, including assessment of performance, potential, and readiness, to support robust people decisions.

• Facilitate succession planning discussions for critical roles and key leadership positions across manufacturing operations.

Change Management

• Proactively guide our operations leaders and employees through exercises and activities that better position the organization to implement and realise change;

• Help to align our leaders and employees, support engagement activities, minimize risks and maintain an open dialogue/solid partnership to influence and drive the change agenda.

HR Analytics and Projects

• Proactively use data to anticipate future manufacturing HR practices, trends and issues in an effort to make meaningful improvements.

• Use workforce data and people analytics to identify trends, capability gaps, attrition risks, and resourcing priorities.

• Conceptualize, design and participate in HR and people projects at divisional or market level working collaboratively with other HR and business colleagues

To Be Successful In This Role You Will Possess

• 10 years of relevant work experience as a HR practitioner, desirably with a minimum of 3-5 years in business partnering, business transformation and analytics

• Experience in a multi-national, regulated manufacturing environment, desirably in the life sciences or pharma sector

• Understanding of HR systems and knowledge of local labor laws and regulation