HR Partner (Part-Time)

Prattwhitney; Harlow; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

RTX is seeking an experienced HR Employee Partner to support designated functions and leaders in delivering people strategy within a hybrid, part-time schedule (24 hours per week). You will partner with leaders across the business to drive workforce planning, employee engagement and change initiatives, while ensuring legal and policy compliance.

The role emphasizes commercial mindset, data-driven insights, and a collaborative approach with Centres of Excellence and HR peers.

Qualifications

• Experience as HR Partner, Senior Advisor or HR Manager.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Proven experience partnering with business leaders to deliver people strategies.
• Experience supporting organisational change, workforce planning and talent initiatives.
• Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to use workforce data and insights to inform decision making.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with functional leaders to develop and deliver people plans aligned to business objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing commercially focused guidance on workforce, organisational and people matters.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and influence decision-making to support business performance.
• Use workforce data and insights to identify risks, opportunities and actions that improve organisational effectiveness.
• Lead workforce planning activities, ensuring current and future capability needs are identified and addressed.
• Support organisational design, restructures, consultations and transformation initiatives.
• Coach leaders through change and support the successful implementation of people and business programmes.
• Drive talent, succession and development planning to build future capability and leadership pipelines.
• Coach and support managers to build high-performing, engaged and inclusive teams.
• Champion employee engagement, wellbeing and a positive workplace culture, working closely with Centres of Excellence and global HR teams where needed to deliver people solutions.
• Provide guidance/oversee complex employee relations matters and partner with the ER Partner on significant or high-risk cases ensuring legally compliant, fair and commercially balanced outcomes.
• Promote a positive employee relations environment and proactively identify and address emerging people risks.
• Lead or contribute to HR projects, process improvement initiatives and change programmes including driving continuous improvement in people practices and employee experience.
• Partner closely with HR Advisors, providing guidance, coaching and support to ensure consistent service delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Coaching

Workforce data analytics

UK employment law knowledge

HR business partnering

Job description

Location: Harlow, Essex

Position Role Type: Hybrid. At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and commercially focused HR Employee Partner to support designated functions and business leaders in delivering their people strategy and achieving business objectives. Working in partnership with functional leadership teams, Centres of Excellence and HR colleagues, you will provide pragmatic people solutions that enable organisational performance, workforce capability and employee engagement. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will combine strong business partnering skills with operational HR expertise to support leaders through growth, organisational change, talent challenges and workforce planning. You will play a key role in translating business priorities into actionable people plans, using workforce insights and data to proactively identify opportunities and risks. The role balances strategic partnership with hands-on support alongside the HR Advisors within the assigned client group. This role is offered on a part-time basis (24 hours per week), typically across either Tuesday to Friday or Wednesday to Friday. You will have your own client relationships with designated functions but also operate alongside another HR Employee Partner to ensure effective coverage and continuity of service across non-working days. Occasional flexibility may be required to attend planned training sessions, team meetings or business activities that fall outside of the normal working pattern, with reasonable notice provided.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with functional leaders to develop and deliver people plans aligned to business objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing commercially focused guidance on workforce, organisational and people matters.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and influence decision-making to support business performance.
• Use workforce data and insights to identify risks, opportunities and actions that improve organisational effectiveness.
• Lead workforce planning activities, ensuring current and future capability needs are identified and addressed.
• Support organisational design, restructures, consultations and transformation initiatives.
• Coach leaders through change and support the successful implementation of people and business programmes.
• Drive talent, succession and development planning to build future capability and leadership pipelines.
• Coach and support managers to build high-performing, engaged and inclusive teams.
• Champion employee engagement, wellbeing and a positive workplace culture, working closely with Centres of Excellence and global HR teams where needed to deliver people solutions.
• Provide guidance/oversee complex employee relations matters and partner with the ER Partner on significant or high-risk cases ensuring legally compliant, fair and commercially balanced outcomes.
• Promote a positive employee relations environment and proactively identify and address emerging people risks.
• Lead or contribute to HR projects, process improvement initiatives and change programmes including driving continuous improvement in people practices and employee experience.
• Partner closely with HR Advisors, providing guidance, coaching and support to ensure consistent service delivery.

About You

Essential

• Experience in a generalist HR Partner, Senior Advisor or HR Manager role.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with business leaders to deliver people strategies.
• Experience supporting organisational change, workforce planning and talent initiatives.
• Strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to use workforce data and insights to inform decision making.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

• Experience supporting TUPE and restructuring activity.
• Experience working in a matrixed organisation.
• Knowledge of unionised or security-cleared environments.
• Experience leading HR projects or organisational change programmes.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Privacy Policy and Terms: RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity.

The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.