HR Business Partner

Dalton Recruitment is pleased to partnering this fantastic client to secure them a new HR Business Partner to provide operational and strategic advice to the senior leadership team across their central functions. Partnering the CFO, Chief Strategy & Transformation Director, IT Director, People Director and Procurement Director, the new HRBP will enable the business to deliver its goals and influence/facilitate the creation of a high-performance culture. Working closely with the People Director to ensure the people strategy is delivered, the HRBP will partner the business leaders on:

• Talent management & succession planning
• Capability development & competency building
• Organizational design
• Workforce planning & performance optimisation
• Employee engagement
• Performance Management
• Leadership Development
• Creating a High-Performance Team and High-Performance Culture environment

In addition, the HR Business Partner will:

• Support the business in operational issues which drive business performance, working effectively across the departments to support the Units’ People strategies and business delivery.
• Work with each of the Business Leaders to develop the people agenda to deliver each of the Functions/Business Units’ business strategies.
• Support central cultural change activity and other business/People projects to drive business transformation and improve delivery of core business activities.
• Act as a role model for change management.
• Act as a trusted advisor on all people activity, providing the business options for them to determine the right business solutions and acting as independent arbiter.
• Coach leaders and teams to maximise delivery & impact and deliver an improved team performance.

The role requires someone to be based at their Woking offices for 4 days with 1 day from home each week with a requirement to travel fairly regularly to their other UK offices to meet with the necessary stakeholders and their teams as required. It is a fantastic development opportunity for an experienced HRBP who may wish to make a move to a more strategic role, as the operational responsibilities will be handled by the wider HR team. This a genuine strategic partnering role.

Key Skills and Experience to be Considered:

• Proven track record as a People/HR Business Partner in a Head Office/CoE environment
• Understands / can demonstrate the cultural sensitivity needed to work across a matrix organization whilst maintaining the pace of delivery
• Ability to delegate and take responsibility for workload and prioritise work when needed
• Commercially driven with a P&L focus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach
• Highly numerate - strong attention to detail, extremely well organised
• Strong IT and systems skills
• Ability to 'think outside the box’
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Sound judgement - calm logical thinker when making decisions
• Extremely high degree of energy and personal motivation - gains satisfaction from 'influencing senior leaders’
• Confident when dealing with change and ambiguity
• Confident when dealing with unpredictable demands and conflicting personal views
• Strong inter-personal skills - demonstrates appropriate challenge/support with senior management
• Excellent relationship building, management and interpersonal skills
• Ability to gain credibility from senior line managers as a core part of their team
• In-depth knowledge, interpretation and application of UK&I employment law
• CIPD or equivalent qualification

Dalton Recruitment Ltd is acting as a recruitment agency in relation to this role. We will always try to respond to all applications individually but due to the high volume we receive, this may simply not be possible. So if you do not hear back from us within 3 working days, please accept our apologies but please also assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion