HR Business Partner

Osborne Clarke; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international legal practice in the UK is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner (HRBP) to implement strategic people plans and manage HR initiatives. This role involves partnership with business leaders, driving engagement and retention, and overseeing talent management. The successful candidate will have proven experience and be adaptable to a hybrid working environment. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits offered, in line with the firm's commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Generous benefits

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Ability to think and act strategically.
• Demonstrably strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Professional and flexible in approach.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to implement strategic people plans.
• Oversee talent management and succession planning.
• Drive employee engagement and wellbeing initiatives.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Influencing

Adaptability

Education

Proven experience as an HR Business Partner

Job description

In this role as HRBP, you'll work in close partnership with our business services leaders to ensure departments implement their strategic people plan and manage their people in a way that meets the current and future needs of the business. Our team is on a very exciting journey at the moment, working on lots of interesting strategic priorities and transformation projects. This position will be based in our Bristol or London office, with the flexibility to embrace hybrid working and some travel between our UK offices as required, and will manage an HR Advisor.

• Working closely with Operations Board stakeholders, you will provide strategic input to their business plans as we look to grow and strengthen our operations using tools such as strategic workforce planning
• In partnership with Chiefs and Heads of Department, you will support the department's people plan and influence and contribute to change projects across the business areas
• You'll use data driven insights to influence decision making and measure impact in terms of business outcomes candidates. You'll use your extensive HR knowledge to bring an external perspective to our HR offering
• Your focus is on improving the performance of the functions through its people and acting on HR initiatives aligned to the overall OC strategy working with colleagues in People Development to ensure management capabilities૨ being developed
• You'll oversee talent management and succession planning for your business areas, focusing on retention of key internal talent and working with recruitment to market map future positions
• You'll ensure diversity and inclusion (D&I) is a central part of the department's people plan and that business leaders look at decisions through a D&I lens
• You'll advise on organisational design as needed, keeping this regularly under review and using insight to influence decision making about people, promotions and recruitment throughout the year and during the budgeting process
• You'll support business leaders to continually monitor and improve employee engagement and wellbeing, ensuring feedback is listened to and acted upon so that our culture remains a competitive advantage
• You will take the lead on complex or sensitive employee relations matters as required,gebild serving as an escalation point for the HR Advisor on less complex cases and generally supervising the HR Advisor's workload
• You may lead on HR function strategic projects for the development of the overall Core HR team
• You'll influence reward decisions in Business Services and Business Support, driving fairness and consistency, and take the lead on annual pay review and bonus nominations
• You'll coach the HR Business Services team to build their capability while also acting as an escalation point for the HR Advisor as necessary. We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join our growing HR team as an HR Business Partner (HRBP) on a permanent basis. We're looking for an individual with proven experience as an HR Business Partner and a strong background in strategic business partnering.
• Ability to think and act strategically, well versed in OC's strategy to inform big picture implications
• Ability to forge strong trusted professional working relationships with internal clients
• Demonstrably strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills, with the confidence to interact with people at all levels
• Professional and flexible in approach, able to adapt to changing requirements and circumstances
• Ability to manage expectations amongst internal clients whilst maintaining credibility and professionalism
• Custodian of the OC culture. People are at the heart of our business and this is an exciting time to be in HR and support the firm in adapting to the future of work. Our HR team plays a central and strategic role in kosmet making Osborne unterschiedlich a great place to work. The team is made up of 70+ people, covering human resources, diversity and inclusion, recruitment and people development across all three UK offices. We are a friendly, fun and supportive team, working closely together to help ensure Osborne Clarke's continued growth and success. Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.
• At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where)+}) you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.
• Services in India are provided by a relationship firm. We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.