Human Resources Business Partner

HUMAN RESOURCES BUSINESS PARTNER

Location: Hook (2-3days in the office per week)

Duration: Till the end of 2025 

Pay rate: £19.33- £25.79 per hour PAYE

Strategic HR business partnering and benefits and fleet management for UK and Ireland operations in partnership with third-party providers. You will be responsible for the overall management of benefit and fleet programs, ensuring they are competitive, cost-effective and aligned with the global benefits strategy. This role also includes providing HRBP support to designated client groups, leading key HR projects and supporting the Irish payroll process.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage & administer all employee benefits programs, including pension plans, insurance products, healthcare plans, flexible benefits, leave policies, wellness programs.

• Partner with third-party providers and brokers to evaluate and select fit for purpose benefit offering, balancing a competitive benefit program offering with cost-effectiveness. 

• Oversee the annual UK Flexible Benefit renewal process, including portal updates, testing, and employee communications.

• Manage vendor relationships, ensuring service level agreements are met and all necessary documentation (SOWs, approvals, market reviews, legal reviews) are in place.

• Responsible for ensuring that the benefit choices with a compensation impact are coordinated and recorded appropriately between the benefit, HCM and payroll systems.

• Collaborate with Finance and invoicing teams on benefit cost accounting, accruals, and planning. Address supplier invoice queries.

• Act as Tier 2 point of contact for employees for benefit related questions, where these cannot be answered by 3rd party provider or Tier 1 ESC.

• Lead the UK defined Contribution pension scheme governance program.

UK & Ireland Fleet program:

• Own the UK/Ireland fleet policy, ensuring compliance with the Global Fleet policy and partnering with internal stakeholders.

• Manage the relationship with the company’s fleet provider, ensuring SLA compliance and managing the escalation of local issues. Ensure the local fleet processes are efficient and aligned with the global program.

• Manage monthly fleet report changes, communicating updates to Payroll. Provide fleet reports to Finance for accounting purposes and support invoice resolution.

• Manage the annual fleet insurance renewal process for the UK and Ireland.

• Oversee the e-driving program in collaboration with the third-party provider and local H&S team.

HRBP responsibilities:

• In addition to leading on UK/I benefits and fleet program, this role will also include HRBP responsibilities providing HR support, advice and guidance to managers.

• Specific activities include supporting recruitment processes, onboarding of new hires, managing employee relation cases, ensuring legal compliance, facilitating engagement initiatives, compensation processes, participating in lead team meetings, etc.

• Support & lead HR projects, and other associated HRBP activities.

Additional responsibilities:

• Support Irish payroll administration, including data input for non-automated pay components.

• Partner with our third-party providers to promote well-being programs and calendar, educational seminars and well-being services available through the employee benefit offering.

• Collaborate with the local HRBP on the HR policies which have an interdependence with employee benefits, e.g. Sickness Policy, Parental leaves, etc. to ensure we are competitive in our employee value proposition.

Minimum Qualification (education, experience and/or training, required certifications)

• Proven experience in HR Business Partnering and employee benefits.

• Knowledge of employee benefits & market trends, including health, wellness and retirement plans.

• Knowledge of employee benefits management and administration.

• CIPD qualified or actively pursuing CIPD qualification.

Additional Preferences:

• Good interpersonal skills to develop strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

• Familiarity with HRIS systems (e.g. Workday)