HR Business Partner (PG) - 12 month fixed term contract

Osborne Clarke; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Osborne Clarke is seeking an HR Business Partner to join their team on a 12-month fixed term contract. The role involves partnering with business leaders to implement strategic people plans and enhance performance across HR functions, focusing on employee engagement, talent management, and diversity initiatives.

Benefits

Competitive salaries

Generous benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven HR or HRBP experience required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills necessary.
• Ability to coach and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational HR guidance.
• Develop and execute diversity and inclusion plans.
• Manage employee relations matters.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Coaching

Conflict resolution

Analytical skills

Client service ethos

Education

Generalist HR or HRBP experience

Job description

Role profile

We have a great opportunity for someone to join our HR team as an HR Business Partner (HRBP) on a 12 month fixed term contract. This position can be based out of our Bristol or London office, with the flexibility to embrace hybrid working and some travel between our other UK offices needed as required.

In this role as HRBP, you'll work in close partnership with business leaders to ensure the Business Transactions Group implements its strategic people plan and manages its people in a way that meets the current and future needs of the business.

Key Responsibilities

Working closely with key stakeholders, you will provide strategic and operational HR guidance and support to the Practice Group across three UK locations. Your focus is on continually improving the performance of the Practice Group through its people and ensuring alignment with OC's strategy. More specifically you will:

• In partnership with business leaders, you will support the successful implementation of the Practice Group's people plan. You'll keep progress under review and measure impact in terms of business outcomes.
• Coach partners and managers in HR matters, to sustain a high performance / high engagement culture. This will include providing quality support ad guidance to partners on managing any poor performance.
• Oversee talent management, promotions and succession planning, focusing on preparing and retaining talent for future positions.
• Maintain momentum for the Practice Group's diversity and inclusion plan to support them to reach their D&I goals, and you'll challenge business leaders look at decisions through a D&I lens.
• Advise on employee relations matters, protecting the employee experience while demonstrating commercial pragmatism and managing risk to the business.
• Work closely with your Practice Group Head, Operations Director and Finance Business Partner to make sure the Practice Group is the right size and shape to deliver against business targets. You'll regularly review operational and financial metrics and use insight to influence decision making about resourcing, recruitment and promotions throughout the year.
• Support Partners and managers to continually improve employee engagement and wellbeing within the Practice Group and ensure feedback is listened to and acted upon so that our culture remains a competitive advantage.
• Use data and insights (internal and external) to drive the people agenda and influence decision making.
• Work with colleagues in People Development to ensure that both general and management capabilities are being developed.
• Influence reward decisions in the Practice Group/Team, driving fairness, consistency, and take the lead on annual reward processes.
• Work with colleagues in recruitment to ensure we attract the best talent from diverse talent pools.
• Work closely with other HRBPs, HR Advisors and managers within the HR team to deliver excellent and efficient service to Partners, managers and employees.
• Coach team members and build their capability. You'll line manager an HR Advisor, and act as an escalation point for HR Advisors and HR Assistants as necessary.
• You may contribute to or lead projects within the Core HR team. You'll be responsible for successfully embedding central HR initiatives within your Practice Group.

We are looking for

• A driven and proactive individual with proven generalist HR or HRBP experience.
• Confident in engaging with a client group to help them drive their business forward with pragmatic, commercial advice.
• Forges strong professional working relationships and partnerships. Has strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the confidence to interact with people at all levels, and can demonstrate an ability to influence at a senior level.
• Has strong technical skills and knowledge of employment law and HR best practice.
• Comfortable using insight and data to influence business leaders.
• Experience of effectively coaching others.
• Manages expectations with internal clients while maintaining credibility and professionalism.
• Demonstrates a strong client service ethos.
• Professional and flexible in approach, able to adapt to changing requirements and circumstances.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Chloe Tidcombe, Recruitment Advisor on 0117 917 4162 or email [e-mail].

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

*Services in India are provided by a relationship firm