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HR Business Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Sheffield

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Job summary

Irwin Mitchell is seeking an HR Business Partner to implement people strategies and support leadership within the organization. The role involves advising on employee relations, driving cultural transformation, and embedding HR initiatives across various business areas, with a focus on enhancing talent and productivity.

Benefits

25 days holidays plus bank holidays
Generous and flexible pension schemes
Two paid volunteering days annually
Westfield Health membership

Qualifications

  • CIPD level 5 qualified (or equivalent).
  • Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience advising on complex Employee Relations matters.

Responsibilities

  • Drive behavioural and cultural change with leaders.
  • Collaborate on Organisational Design changes.
  • Analyse HR metrics to provide insights.

Skills

Stakeholder management
Relationship management
Project management
Communication
Organisational skills

Education

CIPD level 5 qualification

Tools

PowerPoint
Excel

Job description

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About the Role

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
  • 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.

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