Jobs in Hull, Großbritannien

CVS Group plc is an AIM listed, international integrated veterinary services provider, which delivers to clients through four business areas; our veterinary practices, diagnostic laboratories and e-commerce division. Our success is derived from the passion our people have for animals and for making pets a priority, it's what is at the heart of our work, every day.

The Group generates revenue of more than £500m from 500 practices across 3 countries, with more than 8,000 employees across vets, nurses, other clinical employees and within our support office. In a growing pet market, we are well positioned for both organic and acquisitive growth, and significant investment projects are in progress to enhance our infrastructure and central support for the Group.

The opportunity:

The Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) will be responsible in working collaboratively with the Senior HRBP and Leadership Teams. Responsible for providing a strategic business partnering service to support and execute strategic people priorities.

This is a remote-working position with travel to practices and locations in the South East including the Isle of Wight, therefore we wouldencourage candidates to apply with the below experience who arein commutable distance to the South East of the UK.

Please note: this is a 13-month maternity cover position.

The responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic partner to the business areas you support assisting the senior leadership teams to drive and continually improve business performance.
• Work with the business to translate HR Strategy into clear objectives aligned to future goals of the business area and provide accurate and timely support that enables them to achieve their goals.
• Develop a deep understanding of every area of business within your remit, including people issues, key financial, clinical and client issues, and use this understanding to drive strategic discussions against objectives.
• Within your business area lead on all aspects of people strategic plans, talent mapping, succession planning, leadership development, retention and engagement discussions across the designated business area.
• Utilisation of data and metrics to support and drive decision making, change and insights across the business area.
• Identify and provide practical and proactive solutions to people-based issues that arise within your business areas utilising the wider HR services teams to support these where applicable.
• Coach leaders to lead their teams and provide expertise on organisational development, driving a high-performance culture and achieves an engagement plan that drives retention and engagement and KPIs/business objectives.
• Support HR projects and new systems and processes and support and promote key areas of Strategic Pillar Focus to include Engagement, EDI, Talent & Wellbeing practices to set realistic targets and other key strategic pillars.
• Proactively identify opportunities for improvement in people management and developmental practices.
• Proactively benchmarking HR best practice, internally and externally, recommending and implementing these approaches to support and improve people plans and actions.
• Draw insights from data to improve processes, employee engagement and policy alignment across the business utilising HR reporting and metrics/ KPIs to provide insight and commercial solutions on latest trends and challenges across the business areas.

The skills:

• Demonstrable ability and experience to influence and drive strategic objectives & plans.
• Level 7 CIPD qualified or relevant equivalent qualification or experience
• Ability to engage with leaders at all levels and build trusting and effective relationships
• Experience of utilising data insights and HR reporting metrics to drive strategic plans and decisions.
• Have a collaboration and partnership approach to create alignment between the business and all areas of HR with a passion for providing exceptional service.
• Ability to understand company strategy, operational requirements and external employment agenda to shape and deliver strategic people solutions that are easy and simple to understand.
• Strong communicator who is able to influence others and effectively challenge at all levels.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment working to tight deadlines and challenges.
• Have a passion for developing and coaching people to unlock potential and performance across both the Human Resources Team and Operations.
• Resilient and adaptable and ready to embrace and support regular and ongoing change.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint and knowledge of HR Management Systems (HRMS) data bases.

Alongside a competitive salary between £50k - £55k depending on experience and skills, we are offering benefits including;6.6 weeks holiday, buy/sell holiday scheme, pension matched up to 6%, 1 day extra holiday per year up to 5 years, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave, generous staff discount on pet care and products.

CVS is committed to being a fully inclusive place to work where all our colleagues are encouraged and supported to be themselves, where difference is celebrated and where everyone feels able to deliver their best. We are also determined to build a workforce that is more representative of our diverse communities and the people we provide our services to.