Strategic HR Business Partner - Swindon/Hybrid
Posted Today by Resourgenix Ltd
£55 Per hour
Undetermined
Hybrid
United Kingdom
Summary: The Strategic HR Business Partner role in Swindon/Hybrid involves supporting the delivery of the Client's people strategy as a senior member of the HR and OD leadership team. The position requires balancing strategic advisory responsibilities with operational support to enhance the Client's status as an employer of choice. The role demands expertise in complex HR issues and contributions to organizational excellence through effective people strategies. Additionally, the position emphasizes the importance of embodying the Client's culture and values in all HR practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the strategic management of the Client as an extended member of the Senior Management Team.
- Partner with senior leaders to develop and implement HR strategies that support long-term goals.
- Lead initiatives around organizational design, restructuring, and workforce planning.
- Collaborate on succession planning, leadership development, and talent acquisition strategies.
- Champion employee engagement and inclusion initiatives.
- Drive performance management processes and support capability building across teams.
- Commission and interpret HR analytics for evidence-based decision-making.
- Provide guidance on complex employee relations issues and ensure compliance with policies and laws.
- Develop and maintain excellent trade union relationships regarding HR change.
- Assist in developing and rolling out organizational HR policies and practices.
Key Skills:
- Extensive experience in strategic HR and organizational development.
- Strong understanding of HR analytics and data-driven decision-making.
- Proven ability to lead change management and organizational design initiatives.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Experience in employee relations and risk management.
- Ability to develop and maintain relationships with trade unions.
- Strong leadership and team collaboration skills.
- Knowledge of employment law and best HR practices.
Salary (Rate): £55/hour
City: Swindon
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: HR
Strategic HR Business Partner Swindon/Hybrid Our Client is looking for a Strateegic HR Business Partner to support delivery of the Client's people strategy as a senior member of the HR and OD leadership team.
To balance your role as strategic advisor and member of the Senior Management Team to a specific service with supporting the Client in its ambition to be an employer of choice.
To be an expert strategic HR and OD advisor to senior leaders across the breath of complex HR issues.
To contribute to the improvement of services through the design, delivery, and implementation of people strategies and solutions that deliver organisational excellence.
To be a role model in bringing the Client's culture, values and behaviours, and new ways of working to life.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
- To contribute to the strategic management of the Client as an extended member of the Senior Management Team to an allocated Directorate / Service, ensuring that people related issues are considered in the design and delivery of services.
- Strategic alignment: Partner with senior leaders to develop, implement, and embed HR strategies that support long-term goals, drive organisational performance and sense of belonging and ensures the Client's financial sustainability.
- Organisational design & change management programmes: Lead initiatives around the design and delivery of restructuring, workforce planning, and transformation to ensure organisational agility and scalability.
- Talent and development strategy: Collaborate on succession planning, leadership development, and talent acquisition strategies to build a robust talent pipeline and support a culture of growing our own.
- Culture & engagement: Champion initiatives programme that enhance employee engagement, inclusion, high performance, continuous improvement and a values-driven culture.
- Performance & capability: Drive performance management processes and support capability building across teams.
- Data and Digital: Commission and interpret HR analytics to inform evidence-based decisions, identify trends, and recommend proactive solutions. Utilise systems, technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and digital solutions to deliver an effective service.
- Employee relations & risk management: Embed best practice and provide guidance on complex employee relations issues, ensuring compliance and mitigating risk in line with the Client's policies, employment law and best practice to deliver innovative people solutions. To provide and evaluate risk based options, and advise upon risk ahead of key decisions, adjusting plans as necessary.
- Commission the HR&OD & Enabling Services to develop and embed innovative interventions that drive transformational change across and within services.
- Lead and contribute towards the Client's transformation workstreams as required. Contributing to the effectiveness of the services provided by the HR &OD Service; and support and advise on the departmental contribution to business processes, making suggestions for improvement / change where appropriate.
- Assist in developing and rolling out organisational HR policy, practice and procedure ensuring their consistent application within services.
- Develop and maintain excellent trade union relationships, particularly regarding HR change and cultural development.
- To work with the HR and OD leadership team to identify and grow future talent, to enable succession planning across the HR & OD Service and the wider Client.
- The above is not an exhaustive list and the role holder may be required to undertake additional or alternative tasks and duties as necessary, provided they are within the individual's capabilities and skills set at an appropriate level.