Summary: The HR Business Partner role is a part-time position based in East Kilbride, Scotland, focused on maternity cover for 12 months. The role involves partnering with senior leadership to implement HR strategies that enhance business performance and foster a positive company culture. Key responsibilities include coaching, talent planning, and managing change initiatives while promoting colleague engagement. The position requires a proactive and resilient individual with a strong HR background and the ability to navigate complex employee relations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Foster strong relationships with all stakeholders, embodying business values and acting as a role model to create a positive culture where colleagues can excel and drive business success.
• Provide senior-level coaching as a trusted advisor and thought leader, challenging business perspectives and supporting decision-making.
• Contribute to shaping the HR strategy by driving initiatives, ensuring effective implementation, and ensuring their long-term sustainability.
• Promote colleague engagement by partnering with senior leaders to establish leadership practices, communication, and actions that align with business goals.
• Lead talent and succession planning efforts, focusing on developing organizational capabilities and continuously enhancing business performance.
• Effectively manage change, ensuring business reorganizations and change initiatives, including TUPEs, comply with legislation, policy, and cultural values.
• Identify key focus areas that drive business growth, such as performance management, engagement (including DEI and wellbeing), leadership capability, and ensure their successful delivery.
• Adopt a proactive approach to performance management, enhancing skills and capabilities across the business.

Key Skills:

• Experienced HRBP with a strong track record of partnering with senior leaders in customer-facing, geographically dispersed organizations, driving success and delivering on key activities.
• Skilled in prioritising critical tasks, adapting to agile and ambiguous environments.
• Effectively translating data into insights to influence business decisions.
• Commercially aware with the ability to contribute to leadership teams.
• Support change initiatives.
• Navigate complex employee relations, including restructures and TUPE.
• Proactive, resilient, and self-driven, with a focus on continuous development.
• Maintaining effectiveness under pressure.
• Promoting a positive HR reputation across the business.

Salary (Rate): £60,000

City: East Kilbride

Country: Scotland

Working Arrangements: undetermined

IR35 Status: fixed-term

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: HR