People Business Partner - Operations

Bupa Dental Care UK

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus option to buy more
Discounts at over 7,000 retailers
Employee private healthcare plan
Access to remote GP and nurse services
MyHealthcare Allowance
Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Bupa Dental Care UK is seeking a People Business Partner - Operations to drive HR strategies across the regions. This field-based role requires collaboration with senior leadership, and a strong focus on developing inclusive workforce plans. The candidate should possess strong business acumen and partnership skills, leading transformation projects to enhance performance and culture.

Qualifications

  • Proven experience in business partnering within large organizations.
  • Track record of strategic planning and execution across regions.
  • Ability to lead collaboration across HR functions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop regional people plans aligned with business strategies.
  • Foster relationships with Operations Directors to support people initiatives.
  • Lead transformation projects to ensure people agenda representation.

Skills

Commercial Acumen
Partnering
Cross team Collaboration
Leadership & Influencing
Managing Change

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This is a field-based position with regular travel across the central and northern parts of the UK, therefore you will need to be based on patch with good transport links.

The Role

This role will business partner members of the Operations Leadership team, ensuring that Regional people plans are developed and implemented, that are consistent with the business objectives and the Bupa Dental Care (BDC) People plan. You will be a strong collaborator leveraging People team COEs to ensure effective support within the operation and lead on key projects as part of the change and transformation agenda.

What will I be doing?

  • In partnership with the Senior People Business Partner and CoEs, you will develop the Regional people plans, ensuring alignment with BDC's People Strategy/Plan and ensure implementation is aligned with the business strategy and performance outcomes.
  • Develop and foster key relationships with the Regional Operations Directors and their teams, act as the senior point for HR expertise in support of the business strategy/people plan, proactively addresses people risk and opportunity, act as a conduit to specialist and delivery People team services to support this.
  • Work with the Regional Operations Directors to ensure a workforce & talent/succession plan and organisation design that ensures right people / right skills / right place & time / right cost in the operation.
  • Collaborate with People team COEs to ensure cross functional support that drives forward the business objectives and the people plan, champion continuous improvement across Run aspects of the business.
  • Partner with Regional Operations Directors to build a learning and high performance culture within regions through capability development, continuous learning, and ensuring the business is future-fit.
  • Work with the business to develop and execute plans that promote a highly inclusive and engaged workforce across BDC.
  • Lead on Operations transformation projects as appropriate to ensure the people agenda is represented.

What do I need?

  • Commercial Acumen: Understands the commercial aspects of the business and how to develop people plans that will support and enhance business performance.
  • Partnering: Successful track record of business partnering in large multisite organizations with diverse demographics.
  • Strategic Planning & Execution: Experience at developing regional people plans in line with business framework that drive performance and ensuring consistency and collaboration cross-region.
  • Cross team Collaboration: Strong track record and experience of collaborating with / leveraging all aspects of HR e.g. recruitment, reward, engagement, talent, development etc to improve business performance on a sustainable basis.
  • Leadership & Influencing: experience of a partnering and influencing leaders and people managers to achieve business objectives and improve performance.
  • Managing Change: Experience in leading and managing change initiatives, including restructuring, mergers, and acquisition. Takes a partnering approach to ensure adoption and embed new ways of working.

About You

  • Customer Focus: strong customer orientation, with an outcome focus, and proven ability to collaborate across business areas and teams.
  • Relationship Builder: Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships with senior leaders, managers, and employees across multiple sites
  • Communicator: Strong communicator, able to think commercially and be led by data.
  • Problem-Solver & Data Led: The ability to diagnose and address issues and challenges proactively and effectively, uses data and analytics to inform decisions and measure the impact of people initiatives.
  • Curious: Growth mindset and challenges the status quo.
  • Adaptable: Flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and environments, and to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
  • Coach & Mentor: Able to coach managers appropriately and act as sounding board for senior leaders.

The benefits here are industry-leading, and we’ll be able to tell you more about them in the process (or jump to the benefits and rewards page on our careers site for a flavour). But here’s a snapshot:

  • 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more.
  • Discounts in over 7,000 retailers, discounted gym membership and discounted dental insurance (of course).
  • Health Trust - our bespoke employee private healthcare plan, providing healthcare cover with no medical underwriting for colleagues and their families.
  • Access to remote GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, and mental health support.
  • MyHealthcare Allowance, an annual allowance which is redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products.
  • Early access to your earned wages through Wagestream.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • And many more, just ask…

If you or someone you know would be interested in working with a dynamic and expanding healthcare business, with lots of support on offer, great benefits and friendly teams, we would love to hear from you!

Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.

Seniority level
  • Seniority level
    Not Applicable
Employment type
  • Employment type
    Full-time
Job function
  • Job function
    Human Resources
  • Industries
    Medical Practices, Hospitals and Health Care, and Retail

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