HRBP

Project People; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading HR consultancy based in Ipswich is looking for an experienced HR professional to manage stakeholder relationships, provide HR guidance, and support organizational change. The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of UK Employment Law and experience in coaching managers. This role is key in developing HR strategies that enhance organizational effectiveness and employee engagement.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of UK Employment Law and Agency Worker Regulations.
• Experience supporting multiple stakeholders including Senior Leaders.
• Proven track record in delivering strategic HR tasks.
• Experience in culture change management.
• Language skills: English required; Mandarin desirable.

Responsibilities

• Act as a channel between management teams and employees.
• Provide guidance on HR issues including employment law.
• Support change management across business areas.
• Coach managers on leadership behaviors.
• Ensure compliance with HR policies and processes.

Skills

Knowledge of UK Employment Law

Stakeholder management

Culture change management

Strategic task delivery

Communication

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Relationships
  • Be a connection and channel between management teams and employees.
  • Build strong stakeholder relationships with senior management across the UK
  • Build effective communication between UK branches and HQ in China relating to HR aspects.
  • Provide clear guidance and support across a range of HR issues including employment law, HR best practice and analysis of key metric data.
  • Coach and influence discussions with designated business areas on organisational design to support business strategies, demonstrating vision and best practice, whilst ensuring compliance with policy and procedure.
• Change Management
  • Support and influence the key stages of organisational change ensuring a consistent approach across all business areas, providing clear communication on the reasons for change to all stakeholders.
  • Act as the performance improvement driver and create positive changes in people management, in the long, medium and short term.
  • Share responsibility within the HR Division for developing the HR strategy and HR policies and ensure that they represent leading-edge HR practice, improve organisational effectiveness, facilitate change and effect employee engagement.
  • Interpret and implement HQ HR policy and process changes.
• People Advocacy
  • Proactively support and embed the delivery of Succession Planning and leadership development. Ensure robust plans are in place and reviewed regularly.
  • Take responsibility for raising the awareness of engagement and driving the implementation of employee engagement initiatives.
  • Responsible for contributing to the generation of an environment of trust and fairness.
• People Development
  • Coach line managers on leadership behaviours and ensure that individual and group development plans exist to close any gaps.
  • Act as a coach to individual managers and teams to ensure leadership behaviour is aligned to the company's values; enabling leaders and senior managers to deal successfully with people management issues, develop their capability in effective performance management, employee engagement, talent development and retention.
• Transactional Expertise
  • Advise and support managers on ER cases e.g. disciplinaries, grievances, absence management and performance management.
  • Work with our legal team to ensure the site is compliant across employment law and legislation.
  • Use and manage multiple HR systems to aid daily HR operations.

Person Specification

• Required: Knowledge of UK Employment Law and Agency Worker Regulations.
• Supporting multiple stakeholders including Senior Leaders.
• Experience with delivering strategic tasks
• Experience with culture change management
• Desired: Language skills: Predominately English, however candidates that can also speak Mandarin, would be of great interest