HR Business Partner

Ricoh; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Ricoh is seeking an HR Business Partner in Northampton to deliver comprehensive HR services, enhance manager capabilities, and implement key HR initiatives. The role requires a CIPD qualification and broad HR experience, focusing on performance management and employee engagement. Join a company committed to diversity and inclusion, offering flexible hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• Broad generalist HR experience including managing relationships and performance management.
• Knowledge of current UK employment legislation and employee relations.
• Ability to analyse and interpret key HR metrics.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive operational HR service to develop manager capability.
• Implement HR initiatives around talent, performance management, and engagement.
• Track and analyse HR metrics to provide recommendations for improvement.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Business awareness

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

Change your job, change your workplace, change your future

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone

Role: HR Business Partner
Located: Northampton (Ricoh operate a vibrant working policy giving you flexible hybrid working options)
Package: Competitive salary, benefits, pension

About Ricoh:

Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry–leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.

Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative. Enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.

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What you will be doing

• To work collaboratively with the team of HR Business Partners and Senior HR Business Partners to provide a full and comprehensive operational HR service to the business in order to develop manager capability, ensure HR best practice and an excellent HR customer brand is maintained.
• To implement key HR initiatives around talent and succession planning, performance management, reward, wellness, engagement, policy changes, resourcing and organisational effectiveness as directed by the Senior HR Business Partner
• To proactively track and analyse HR metrics and management information and provide recommendations for improvement to the Senior HR Business Partners.
• To assist and execute the delivery of change management and business improvement programmes across the business to optimise business performance and enhance employee engagement.
• To work in partnership with the case management provider to ensure employee relation matters are handled proactively and trends are identified for intervention as well as being the escalation for any high risk cases or appeals to protect the reputation of the business.
• To develop and deliver training on HR related matters to equip managers with appropriate skills / knowledge to effectively manage their staff to meet business needs.
• To update, maintain and promote HR systems to enhance the service provided to the business.
• To be work collaboratively with the recruitment team to support all recruitment activity to ensure timely response and delivery.

Ideally you will be

Ideally part or fully CIPD qualified

Broad generalist HR experience including managing relationships, performance management, knowledge of current UK employment legislation, employee relations, TUPE, redundancies & restructures

Knowledge of change management and ability to assist with large inter–departmental projects

Business and commercial awareness

High level of interpersonal skills with the ability to work with various management teams, building effective relationships to be able to objectively challenge and influence change.

Ability to analyse and interpret key HR metrics and management information to diagnose business / organisation / employee relations / engagement issues

Continuous learning attitude in order to develop skills further for future succession planning

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non–membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

Striving for inclusion and diversity isn t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.

To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee–led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs.

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