HR Business Partner

Irwin Mitchell; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in legal and financial services, Irwin Mitchell is seeking an HR Business Partner to lead people strategies and enhance engagement within the business. This role involves collaborating with leadership to implement effective changes, ensuring compliance with legal obligations, and driving organizational performance through strategic workforce planning. The ideal candidate will possess strong HR knowledge, communication skills, and a CIPD level 5 qualification.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays

Flexible pension schemes

Two paid volunteering days annually

Westfield Health membership

Qualifications

• CIPD level 5 qualification or equivalent experience required.
• Strong relationship management skills essential.
• Change focused with experience in data-driven decision making.

Responsibilities

• Drive cultural change and develop leadership skills.
• Implement organisational changes for high performance.
• Analyse HR metrics to inform decisions.

Skills

Relationship management

Stakeholder management

HR generalist knowledge

Change management

Analytical skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Education

CIPD level 5 qualified

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

As a HR Business Partner, you'll act as the People specialist within your business area's leadership team, providing support on people-related matters and leading cyclical activities. Your goal is to optimize talent, engagement, and productivity. You'll develop a localised people plan to address leaders' concerns and priorities, sharing data to inform decisions. Additionally, you'll ensure HR initiatives and resources are effectively communicated and embedded within the business area.

• Drive behavioural and cultural change with leaders, developing their skills
• Collaborate on Organisational Design changes to improve structure and ways of working
• Implement and embed organisational changes for high performance
• Work with the People Team to deliver people plans and initiatives
• Assess commercial challenges and risks, partnering to develop solutions
• Ensure people change delivery meets legal and regulatory obligations
• Represent the voice of the customer for people activities
• Identify and raise awareness of external market trends
• Diagnose skill and capability needs, driving talent management
• Set an example of positive behaviour within the People Team
• Analyse HR metrics to provide insights and recommendations
• Contribute to HR priorities and projects

About You

Essential:

• CIPD level 5 qualified (or equivalent in experience)
• Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills
• HR generalist knowledge and experience
• Experience of advising Leaders on complex Employee Relations matters
• Resilient and change focused, with the ability to use data for strategic decision making
• Knowledge of business planning processes
• Awareness of organisational design including workforce impacts (capabilities, roles, culture, ways of working, structure)
• Good understanding of employment law
• Strong organisational, communication, and time management skills
• Confident communicator in group settings
• Proficient in PowerPoint and Excel
• Excellent attention to detail
• Project management skills for leading people change projects

Desirable:

• Accredited in mediation skills
• Coaching expertise
• Experience of working within professional services (legal, financial or consulting)
• Mental health trained

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.