Human Resources Business Partner

Network Rail Limited; London; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an HR Business Partner to lead transformative HR projects. This dynamic role focuses on delivering strategic HR initiatives that enhance performance and foster a high-performance culture. You will collaborate with senior managers, influence talent management, and implement best practice HR solutions. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this role offers the chance to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment. If you are passionate about HR and eager to contribute to meaningful change, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

75% off season ticket for travel to work

75% off leisure travel for family

Flexible working arrangements

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Choice of contributory pension schemes

Qualifications

• Strong business approach and understanding of business needs.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic HR initiatives aligned with business goals.
• Act as a trusted advisor and change agent for HR solutions.

Skills

Business/commercial approach

Building strong working relationships

Customer service

Implementing HR solutions

Coaching and influencing

Excellent communication skills

Talent development and retention

Technical HR knowledge

Operating in complex environments

Education

CIPD qualified

Relevant HR experience

Job description

OC HR Business Partner - Anglia (109001) G5

About Network Rail

Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others.

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work-life balance.

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

We care about people, and we’re passionate about great service. We believe teamwork is key and the Anglia People Team is no exception. We have an ambitious people plan and want people that are committed to making Anglia a great place to work. You’ll need to be flexible in your approach, and keen to learn.

The role is based in our London Stratford Office with the expectation to visit our operational locations across our network when required.

Brief Description

Are you an HR professional who can lead and support HR teams delivering transformative HR projects? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment and making a difference to teams through change? Are you ambitious and looking to work in a team that is striving to improve and deliver a people agenda?

If so, look below!

As a HR Business Partner (projects), you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the delivery of our strategic HR initiatives that align with our goals. This isn’t your traditional HRBP role – you’ll play an important role in delivering and supporting our operational HR team to execute high-impact projects that touch every corner of our business. From redesigning talent frameworks to leading our early careers initiatives, this role revolves around change and improvement.

With the support of a senior HR Business Partner you’ll help in the shaping and delivering the HR strategy to support business objectives and cultivate a high-performance culture. Partnering with leaders across our business and HR colleagues both in Anglia and the centralised functions, you’ll provide guidance on talent, succession planning, and performance management while driving impactful people initiatives for both current and future business needs.

You need to be able to act as a trusted advisor and change agent; you’ll play a key role in transformation programmes, engage trade union relationships, and champion the implementation of HR solutions. You’ll be a strong collaborator and communicator, having an input into how we need to change and develop, including our delivery, policy development, assurance and process to address cross-business challenges to make a lasting impact.

You’ll be able to demonstrate most of the criteria below; if you have some development areas don’t let that put you off applying! We are looking for people with relevant experience, great attitudes and fantastic behaviours.

1. Demonstrates strong business/commercial approach and understanding of business needs.
2. Proven experience of working in partnership and building strong working relationships with senior managers in order to improve people management.
3. Passionate about customer service with ability to articulate previous achievements through business deliverables.
4. Knowledge and experience of implementing best practice HR solutions to drive a high-performance culture.
5. Experience of coaching and influencing senior managers.
6. Excellent communication skills and ability to negotiate and influence effectively with all levels of an organisation.
7. Understands how to work with the business to identify, develop and retain talent.
8. Excellent technical HR Knowledge - CIPD qualified or relevant experience to demonstrate level of competence.
9. Proven track record of operating in a complex working environment.

How to apply (External)

What we can offer you

We follow a structured pay framework: Band 4C: Salary from £43,588

Network Rail can offer you a rewarding career with competitive pay and excellent benefits including:

• 75% off the cost of a season ticket for travel to work
• 75% off leisure travel for you and your family
• Flexible working arrangements
• 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• A choice of contributory pension schemes

We positively support flexible working recognising that employees may wish to balance work and home life. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work-life balance.

Ready to take the lead?

If you’re excited about the opportunity to shape the future of HR here at Network Rail, we want to hear from you!

We're continuing to build a diverse organisation which is representative of the people we serve. We want to harness the skills and expertise of our people and attract the best talent, to enable a safe and accessible railway for everyone.

Closing Date: Sunday 5th January

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