HR Business Partner

Kier Group; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kier Group is seeking an HR Business Partner to work on the Anglian Water Contract. The role focuses on delivering a people strategy, embedding Kier's HR practices, and partnering with management to drive cultural and organisational change.

You will support a high performing HR team, influence leadership on employee relations, engagement and workforce planning, and work across offices and sites with hybrid flexibility.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified (or equivalent experience) with demonstrable experience of business partnering in medium or large organisations.
• Strong employee engagement and employee relations skills with up to date knowledge of employment legislation
• Excellent communication skills and a highly collaborative working style
• Ability to build influential relationships with senior stakeholders and have strong commercial awareness
• Delivery focused and pragmatic, able to flex solutions and approach to diverse audiences and business needs

Responsibilities

• Championing and influencing the development of a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture
• Partnering with operational and functional leads as a credible and trusted advisor, bringing people expertise to help deliver business strategy
• Leading initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, wellbeing and belonging, using data and insights to drive meaningful action plans
• Managing all employee relations activity and working collaboratively with Group HR functions to provide best practice advice
• Working with the Talent Acquisition function to develop workforce hiring strategies and supporting emerging talent career programmes

Skills

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Change management

People analytics

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

We're looking for a HR Business Partner to join our Anglian Water team.

Location: Huntingdon/Norwich/Ipswich/Lincoln/Peterborough - Hybrid working available with travel to offices and sites as required
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within a high performing HR team on the Anglian Water Contract, partnering with the management team to drive cultural and organisational change during a period of substantial growth. You'll provide an innovative, effective and customer-focused service whilst delivering the people plan in support of the business strategy and embedding the wider Kier people strategy.

What will you be responsible for?

As a HR Business Partner, you'll be working within the Natural Resources team, supporting them in delivering an effective people strategy. Your day to day will include:

• Championing and influencing the development of a positive, inclusive and high-performing culture
• Partnering with operational and functional leads as a credible and trusted advisor, bringing people expertise to help deliver business strategy
• Leading initiatives that strengthen employee engagement, wellbeing and belonging, using data and insights to drive meaningful action plans
• Managing all employee relations activity and working collaboratively with Group HR functions to provide best practice advice
• Working with the Talent Acquisition function to develop workforce hiring strategies and supporting emerging talent career programmes

What are we looking for?

This role of HR Business Partner is great for you if:

• You're degree qualified (or qualified by experience) with demonstrable experience of business partnering in medium or large organisations
• You have strong employee engagement and employee relations skills with up to date knowledge of employment legislation
• You have excellent communication skills and a highly collaborative working style
• You're able to build influential relationships with senior stakeholders and have strong commercial awareness
• You're delivery focused and pragmatic, able to flex solutions and approach to diverse audiences and business needs

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

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