People Business Partner - Technical

Motorsport Network, LLC; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Williams F1 Team is seeking a strategic People Business Partner to advise business-area leadership and translate goals into customer-focused People plans. You will drive a high-performance culture, coach managers, and partner across functions to optimise workforce strategies in a fast-paced environment.

The role requires proven HRBP experience, strong analytical capability, and exceptional relationship-building to enable delivery of the People Plan and sustain world-class performance.

Qualifications

• Previous HRBP experience, ideally in a high-performance technical/manufacturing organisation.
• Demonstrated experience using analytics to drive people and business decisions.
• Strong coaching, influence, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving organisational change.
• CIPD Level 5 (Or Equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Develop management capability using the Williams Values & Behaviours framework to strengthen our high-performance culture.
• Advise, coach and empower managers and employees to drive engagement action plans.
• Collaborate with business-area leadership to create workforce strategies and plans.
• Support talent review, capability development and succession planning with cross-functional partners.
• Use analytics to anticipate talent risks and guide organisation design decisions.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on talent mapping to ensure a healthy pipeline.
• Promote and facilitate key people processes, including end of year reviews and salary reviews.
• Utilise internal data and workday insights to support objective decision-making.

Skills

HRBP experience

Analytics

Coaching

Relationship building

Influence

Education

CIPD Level 5

Job description

The People Business Partner is a strategic advisor to business-area leadership accountable for driving the Williams People Strategy and shaping an elite, high-performance culture aligned to our values & behaviours. Partnering closely with business-area leaders and the wider People function, the PBP translates business-area goals and challenges, into customer-focused People strategies and executable plans. The role works cross functionally to deliver seamless execution of in our People Plan and maximise impact in a fast-paced, high-performance environment. Act as a trusted business partner to business-area managers and leaders, building effective and trusted partnerships to enable the successful delivery of the People Plan.

• Develop management capability using the Williams Values & Behaviours framework to furtherstrengthen our high-performance culture at all levels of the organisation.
• Advise, coach and empower managers and employees to drive employee engagement action plans and a high-performance culture.
• Work with business-area leadership to identify skills and capability gaps to develop future focussed workforce strategies. Partner with the Finance department and Early Careers to create and implement effective workforce planning processes to address future capability needs.
• Support people planning and review processes, including talent review, capability development and succession planning, providing sufficient challenge to business-area leaders, and engaging with the Talent and Leadership function on training needs identification, and solutions that improve talent development and retention.
• Use people analytics and an understanding of cost cap requirements to anticipate talent risks, identify cost optimisation opportunities and guide decision making on organisation design.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team and business-area leadership on talent mapping/resourcing to ensure a healthy pipeline of industry appropriate talent aligned to the future workforce plan.
• Partner with managers to promote and facilitate effective delivery of key people processes; including,
• End of Year Reviews, OKR creation and Salary Review to drive business performance.
• Use internal and external data and insights to support objective decision-making within client areas; working with the Shared Service Centre team to optimise effective use of Workday data.
• Partner with the Employee Relations team to effectively support managers to resolve all types and levels of ER cases aligned to our guiding ER principles and People Strategy.
• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence to elevate the end-to-end employee experience and embed innovative, customer-focused, and future-ready solutions that drive a culture of sustainable high performance in our mission to win multiple world championships.

Company Description

For almost 50 years, Atlassian Williams F1 Team has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name.

Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long‑term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid.

Qualifications

• Previous HRBP experience, ideally in a high-performance technical/manufacturing organisation, with a proven track record of working with managers and team members to deliver Peopleinitiatives and plans within a fast-paced multi-disciplinary environment.
• Demonstrated experience using analytics to drive people and business decisions.
• Strong coaching, influence, and relationship-building skills.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving organisational change.
• CIPD Level 5 (Or Equivalent)

Additional Information

Atlassian Williams F1 Team is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.