HR Business Partner

Wellcome Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 88,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health charity in the UK is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to provide strategic HR support, working closely with senior leadership. The successful candidate will influence HR strategies that enhance organizational performance and employee engagement. Responsibilities include workforce planning, talent management, change management, and improving employee relations. This permanent role offers a hybrid working model, emphasizing diversity and inclusion within the work environment.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Comprehensive employee benefits

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience at Executive/Senior Leadership Team level in HR.
• Expertise in developing People Strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Demonstrable change management experience.
• Proficiency in people data analysis for management reporting.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert HR guidance to executives and senior leaders.
• Drive workforce planning to align skills with organizational needs.
• Support talent acquisition and onboarding of high-caliber candidates.
• Lead change management initiatives across various organizational projects.
• Enhance employee engagement through tailored organizational strategies.
• Manage senior Employee Relations cases effectively.
• Cultivate a high-performance culture through feedback and coaching.

Skills

HR partnering experience

Coaching and influencing

Relationship management

Analysing employee metrics

Education

Relevant HR certification

Job description

Salary: £87,300

Closing date: 19thJanuary

Contract type: Permanent

Interview dates: W/C 2ndand W/C 9thFebruary

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

We have an exciting opportunity for an HR Business Partner, to work with our Heads of HR providing strategic HR support and guidance to assigned business areas. The role involves partnering closely with senior leadership to influence, develop and drive HR strategies to enhance organisational performance, employee engagement and talent management, enabling Wellcome to deliver its mission and becoming ‘the best place to work’.

Key Accountabilities

• Trusted Adviser:as a trusted adviser to Executive Committee and Extended Executive Group at Wellcome, providing expert HR guidance, coaching and support, using insight of Wellcome’s environment to improve people and organisational outcomes.

• Workforce Planning:Drive workforce planning, ensuring that Wellcome has the right people with the right skills in the right roles in order to deliver the mission, as part of the Integrated Organisational Planning process.

• Talent Agenda:Support the talent agenda for assigned areas, including succession plans and capability plans, supported by the talent team. Work with Talent Acquisition to ensure the recruitment of high calibre candidates with the capabilities required to enable delivery of the mission. Active involvement in senior recruitment processes and support with onboarding.

• Change Management:Facilitate change management to optimise effectiveness of the organisation to enable delivery of the mission, leading on complex, multi-disciplinary projects which will impact across the organisation.

• Employee Engagement:Assess and improve organisational effectiveness through employee engagement strategies, helping to drive a highly engaged workforce with strong recommendation – eNPS.

• Employee Relations:Lead senior Employee Relations issues, with support from the ER team.

• Culture:Drive a high-performance culture within assigned business areas, providing coaching and feedback to managers.

• Development:Champion the upskilling of leaders to own all people related decision making (supported by HR expertise). Work with Learning & Development in the identification of skills gaps and help facilitate appropriate training and development opportunities, with a particular focus on senior team development.

• Data driven:Utilise HR analytics to drive data decision making, applying judgement to data to support and influence decision making.

You can view the full job description on our website.

To apply for this role please submit an up-to-date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role. The minimum requirements of the role are:

• HR partnering experience at Executive/Senior Leadership Team level.

• Expertise in developing and delivering People Strategies for client groups aligned to an organisational wide People strategy.

• Organisational/change management experience including but not limited to OD. design, OD implementation, etc.

• Strong coaching and influencing and relationship management experience.

• Solid understanding of employee metrics and people data with the ability to analyse and manipulate for management reporting.

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website.

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at [e-mail].

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is ‘spent’.

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here.