Head Of Hr jobs in United Kingdom

Role profile

We have a great opportunity for an HR Business Partner to join our HR Team in either our Bristol or London office with some home working too.

This role will work in close partnership with business leaders to support our PREF (Projects, Real Estate and Finance) Practice Group to implement its strategically-aligned people plan and manage its people in a way that meets the current and future needs of the business.

Key responsibilities

You will provide strategic and operational HR guidance and support to the Practice Group across three UK locations. Your focus is to continually improve the performance of the Practice Group through its people, and ensure alignment with OC's business strategy. Other responsibilities include:

• Provide strategic and operational HR guidance and support to the Practice Group across three UK locations. Your focus is to continually improve the performance of the Practice Group through its people, and ensure alignment with OC's business strategy.
• In partnership with business leaders, you will help shape the Practice Group's annual people plan, and support its successful implementation. You'll keep progress under review and measure impact in terms of business outcomes.
• Coach partners and managers in HR matters, to sustain a high performance / high engagement culture, and to manage change effectively.
• Work closely with the Operations Director and Finance Business Partner to make sure the Practice Group has the right skills and is the right size and shape to deliver against business targets. You'll keep this regularly under review and use insight to influence decision making about people, promotions and recruitment throughout the year.
• Oversee talent management, promotions and succession planning, focusing on preparing and retaining talent for future positions.
• Ensure diversity and inclusion is a central part of the Practice Group's people plan to support them to reach their D&I goals, and you'll challenge business leaders look at decisions through a D&I lens.
• Advise on employee relations matters, protecting the employee experience while demonstrating commercial pragmatism and managing risk to the business.
• Support Partners and managers to continually improve employee engagement and wellbeing within the Practice Group and ensure feedback is listened to and acted upon so that our culture remains a competitive advantage.
• Use data driven insights to drive the people agenda and influence decision making. You'll also use your extensive HR knowledge to bring an external perspective to our HR offering.
• Work with colleagues in People Development to ensure that both general and management capabilities are being developed.
• Take the lead on annual reward processes for the Practice Group, driving fairness, consistency, and work with colleagues in recruitment to ensure we attract the best talent from diverse talent pools.
• Work closely with other HRBPs, HR Advisors and managers within the HR team to deliver excellent and efficient service to Partners, managers and employees.
• Line manage an HR Advisor. You'll coach team members and build their capability. You'll act as an escalation point for HR Advisors and HR Assistants as necessary.
• Contribute to or lead projects within the Core HR team. You'll be responsible for successfully embedding central HR initiatives within your Practice Group.

We are looking for

• A driven and proactive individual with proven generalist HR or HRBP experience.
• Confident in engaging with a client group to help them drive their business forward with pragmatic, business focussed, commercial advice.
• Demonstrates a strong client service ethos. Forges strong professional working relationships and partnerships. Has strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills, with the confidence to interact with people at all levels, and can influence senior leaders. Manages expectations with internal clients while maintaining credibility and professionalism.
• Has strong technical skills and knowledge of employment law and HR best practice.
• Comfortable and proactive in using insight and data to influence business leaders.
• Experience of effectively coaching and developing others.
• Work well both as part of a team and independently.
• Able to work at pace and to adapt to changing requirements and circumstances.
• Comfortable to operate at both strategic and operational levels. Mindful of strategic implications of operational matters.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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