HR Business Partner

Skanska UK Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global construction firm is seeking an HR Business Partner to support the High Speed 2 project. This role involves partnering with leadership teams to drive people strategy and enhance the employee experience. Key responsibilities include coaching senior leaders, managing talent reviews, and promoting an inclusive workplace culture. Ideal candidates will possess extensive HR knowledge, strong interpersonal and influencing skills, and the ability to thrive in a complex environment. Join us to contribute to an iconic infrastructure project in London.

Qualifications

• Proven delivery in generalist HR including business partnering.
• Knowledge of employment law and its practical application.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as HR business partner and advisor.
• Support resource forecasting and talent reviews.
• Drive inclusive culture through engagement and activities.

Skills

Business partnering experience

Coaching senior leaders

Interpersonal skills

Influencing skills

Stakeholder management

Resilience

Networking

Job description

Skanska, a global leader in project development and construction, is committed to building a better society through inclusivity and responsibility. As part of the SCS joint venture delivering London’s largest infrastructure project with tunnels until 2035, we focus on collaboration, operational excellence, and strategic talent management. Join us as a HR Business Partner to support High Speed 2 Operating Units, partnering with leadership teams to drive people strategy and provide an exceptional employee experience on this iconic, career-defining project.

What you’ll do:

• Demonstrate role modelling of, and be ambassador for, HR business partnering across the Operating Unit.
• Develop a thorough understanding of how the Operating Unit projects are commercially viable and add value through people related activities. Utilise people data to measure and improve project performance.
• Support the HR Director with resource forecasting for the Operating Unit to understand future requirements and implement strategies to address.
• Drive the Operating Unit talent review processes, and work with leaders to ensure robust succession plans are in place for key roles across multiple time horizons.
• Ensure that talent is identified, developed and retained.
• Drive and champion a diverse and inclusive culture through project and people related activities, implementing the BU Inclusion & Diversity strategy within the Operating Unit and identifying any local interventions or strategies to be deployed.
• Effectively champion the Operating Unit engagement survey and outputs to leverage engagement levels and work with leaders on areas which require intervention.
• Actively support and work within the HR Service Delivery model, in partnership with HR specialist functions.

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Proven delivery and track record in the key areas of generalist HR including business partnering experience, coaching senior leaders and line managers through people related matters.
• A thorough and up to date knowledge of employment law, and experience of practical application of this in a complex business environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and excellent spoken and written communication skills.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills with a track record of building credible relationships.
• Resilient - able to face challenges proactively and comfortable dealing with senior management of the organisation.
• Able to work as part of a team; demonstrates the ability to network effectively up, down and across the business.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high‑performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] or call 0330 105 2000 – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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