HR Business Partner

DHL; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

DHL is seeking a Lead HR Business Partner to align HR activities with business strategy across multiple contracts with extensive travel. The role involves supporting employee performance and communication, while driving transformation in HR practices. Candidates should have HR experience in logistics, project management skills, and a CIPD qualification. Competitive benefits are on offer, including a car allowance and wellness support.

Benefits

24/7 GP service

Hundreds of discounts (retail, childcare, gym)

Affordable loans & enhanced pension scheme

24/7 employee support service for you (+ family)

Qualifications

• Previous HR experience within a logistics business desirable.
• Experience of working in a network environment desirable.
• Ability to self manage your diary.

Responsibilities

• Support employee satisfaction, performance, retention, and communication.
• Lead relationships with union representatives and manage negotiations.
• Ensure robust employee performance management.

Skills

Project Management

Employee Relations

Talent Management

Flexibility to Travel

Education

CIPD qualification or equivalent

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Package Competitive salary plus £6000 car allowance, plus 5 weeks holiday plus company bonus

Location: Midlands/Remote

This role support multiple contracts over various locations and travel will be needed when necessary - sites to travel include The West of England, Burnley, Cambridge, Coventry, Wolverhampton and Milton Keynes

Contract Type: Permanent (Full-Time)

DHL, an award-winning leading supply chain business is seeking a Lead HR Business Partner to play a vital role acting as a trusted advisor to the business, while aligning HR activities to the business strategy.

With 37,000 employees in 400 operations across the UK & Ireland, we're part of an exciting and varied business. The HR function works with our managers to attract, develop and retain our people so that we have the very best team in the industry. From HR Business Partners to Compensation and Benefits and from Employee Relations to People Services, we've set ourselves up to serve our people, our customers and our business in the best way possible.

WHAT DOES THE ROLE ENTAIL?

Do you want the chance to join us in a super role supporting colleagues across multiple contracts offering a really good exposure across a variety of customers.

In this role you will act as a trusted advisor to the business and partner with members of the business management team to align HR activities to the business strategy. You will support business and customer goals and influence the strategic direction of the business balanced with the employee perspective. You will drive transformation and change of HR to maximise the capability of our people at all levels of the organization and to ensure HR services are delivered to drive business performance and ensure we are a great place to work for all.

As part of your normal duties you will

• Support with employee satisfaction, performance, retention and effective communication at sites.
• Support the ER/IR agenda and lead/support relationships and key processes with union representatives at site and our IR Centre of Excellence pay negotiations.
• Deploy the Business HR Priorities, as directed labour flexibility, learning & development, talent management etc.
• Ensure employee performance management (sickness, discipline, grievance, reward & recognition) is robustly supported.
• Support managers to develop and deliver solutions for workforce planning and management including organisation design, forecasting resourcing needs, agency and identifying future talent requirements.
• Engagement with the customer to drive best in class levels of customer satisfaction.
• Support leaders and managers to develop people management capabilities.
• Scan and understand the business' markets, environment and needs, share insight with other HR roles and recommend solutions to drive continuous improvement.
• Following defined processes, provide people and workforce related advice, strategies, and solutions related to workforce planning, recruitment, learning and development, performance management, compensation, succession planning and end of year performance reviews.
• Provide accurate and timely information and data to managers and employees on individual contracts, HR policies, processes, procedures etc.
• Cooperate with CoE departments, wider teams and Central HR Teams to ensure continuous improvement and standardisation.
• Promote the DHL Core Values and act as a role model to the team and wider group.

WHAT DO WE NEED FROM YOU?

We'd love to hear from you if you have the following experience but don't hesitate to apply if you don't tick every box on this page - we're great at spotting talent and potential in everyone:

• Previous HR experience within a logistics business would be desirable
• Experience of working in a network environment desirable
• A CIPD qualification or equivalent
• Ability to provide project management support
• Flexibility to travel, and self manage your diary

WHY CHOOSE US?

As well as competitive pay rates, you will be entitled to an award-winning range of benefits including:

• Free confidential 24/7 GP service
• Hundreds of discounts (including retail, childcare + gym)
• Affordable loans & enhanced pension scheme
• 24/7 employee support service for you (+ family) with access to free counselling and much more:

OUR APPROACH TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent and consistent across the UK. Find out more about our global approach to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging:

BE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE

DHL is the global leader in Supply Chain management and we keep the world moving. Our expert teams work together to deliver for our customers across a range of industries including retail, automotive, healthcare and more, so they can deliver to their customers.