HR Consultant

Job Description

HR Consultant: Project LeadHuman ResourcesSome careers offer brighter prospects than others.If youre looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards thatwill take you further.As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare, a generous contributory pension scheme, enhanced maternity and adoption pay.We are currently seeking an experienced and capable HR Consultant to proactively drive our annual people agenda across our UK business.As a HR Consultant, your thought leadership and creativity will enable HSBC to accelerate its people strategy and enable our colleagues and teams to thrive. You will shape, create and deliver projects and campaigns that will connect our people with ourpurpose. No day will be the same, you will have a diverse portfolio with a variety of stakeholders across HR and the broader business with the ability to collaborate with HR specialists across areas like Learning, Reward, Talent and Recruitment to delivermarket leading people solutions. Your project management and critical thinking skills will be key to helping with the design and delivery of innovate people initiatives, whilst your ability to harness data and analytics will be instrumental in your approach.You get to do all of this whilst being part of a fun, dynamic and supportive team who hold broad HR and project management expertise, alongside a passion for delivering to stakeholders and building a culture of continuous learning and coaching.In order to accomplish these outcomes, it is expected that the HR Consultant will:

• Manage project delivery proactively balancing scope, schedule, interdependencies, budget and risks where applicable
• Effectively manage complex relationships and drive high engagement with internal stakeholders across both HR and the broader business
• Be responsible for effective project controls and procedures
• Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to relevant governance forums and make recommendations to influence decision making
• Be able to effectively communicate and demonstrate how HR projects connect the people strategy with the broader business strategy

RequirementsTo be successful in this role you should be able to demonstrate the following experience:

• Project managementdelivery of people projects from scoping through to post implementation review
• Campaign management - ability to take a concept from ideation through to development and delivery.
• Stakeholder managementideally across a complex, matrixed organisation
• Influencing skills - ability to establish trust and credibility at pace
• Flexibility, tenacity and resilience - when dealing with business demands and high-levels of ambiguity
• Calm under pressure - ability to re-prioritise in very short timescales
• Data analysisuse of multiple data sources to make decisions and tell compelling stories

Key Skills:

• Change Advocacy
• Consulting Agility
• Problem solving
• Critical Thinking
• Agile approaches
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Data analysis

This is a hybrid home and office role with Birmingham as a base. We connect face to face on a quarterly basis and travel will also be required to other HSBC sites dependent on project delivery.Youll achieve more when you join HSBC.As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualifiedapplicants irrespective of ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term health condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military andveteran status, and any other characteristic protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. Within the work place you will have access to various employee resource groups which aim to promote and achieve a healthy work / life balance andsupport our diversity ambitions. HSBC has in place processes in order to avoid nepotism, which means to avoid creating circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.When joining HSBC UK, you will become a valued member of our team, we take the time to get to know you and there will be many tailored development opportunities along the way to support your career to grow as much as you want. We can offer you a competitivepay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity, shared parental and adoption pay, and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution. But thisis only the start, we work closely with our colleagues to understand their life balance needs and we support them with several schemes and initiatives. We cant wait to tell you about our ways of working, wellbeing agenda and our healthiest human system!