Senior HR Business Partner Scotland & NI- Permanent

Job Description

You will have responsibility for Northern Ireland and Scotland region with the potential of more locations across UK, therefore travel will be required in this role. Partnering with and coaching business leaders within their allocated regionin shaping and executing organisational effectiveness and talent management priorities. They will also collaborate with COEs and GBS to ensure seamless delivery of agreed HR priorities.Client DetailsFantastic opportunity within a global FMCG business.DescriptionKey ResponsibilitiesTalent Management: Liaise with HR leadership and functional/business leads to drive out the Talent Reviews/related action plans across the relevant business areas, building solid plans to ensure best in class talent capability & relateddevelopment. Ensure that all talent initiatives are tracked, with progress and impact evaluated against actions identified. Work with business stakeholders to assess talent needs & agenda over a short to longer term view, identifying and driving people developmentactions as applicable. Develop specific initiatives to address challenges and opportunities. Provide key metrics around talent retention, mobility and promotion. In addition, act as a business champion for our graduate programme within relevant business areasand functions. Partner proactively with the Graduate Programme team.Positive Employee Engagement & Relations: Proactively drive, support and track employee engagement initiatives, with a view to consistently capturing & actioning feedback from respective business groups. Align all initiatives with broaderview (i.e. HR leadership and/or business-driven as appropriate). Closely partner with stakeholders in driving ownership for engagement through to business leadership at all levels.Organisational Effectiveness: Implementation of targeted people-related business initiatives to drive organisational effectiveness and sustainable improved business performance. Proactively and routinely review people structures & capabilitiesand help to deliver a talent pipeline to provide the necessary capability to improve and grow the business. As part of planning process, evaluate specific initiatives against broader HR and business agenda to ensure alignment of approach & methodology as applicable.Track progress of people agenda deliverables against backdrop of business and functional performance against objectives.Additional ResponsibilitiesChange Management: Be a champion for change and lead the people agenda in driving business change initiatives across the business. Contribute proactively in identifying opportunities for business enhancement programmes; implement peoplerelated change programmes including culture change, and assist in the management and communication process across all relevant stakeholders. Coordinate with HR leadership, local HR teams and central HR colleagues in delivering against identified change objectives.Reward: Drive calibration around reward decisions through managing performance agenda in a robust and consistent manner, and ensuring appropriate connection is made between reward & performance at all levels of the organisation. For locallydriven collective arrangements, work with HR leadership to evaluate & execute against opportunities for optimal and sustainable business cost structure.Training & Leadership Development: Ensure managers are equipped with the necessary skills to do their jobs efficiently and effectively through leadership/capability/coaching support. Meet team or individual development needs through effectivebusiness area / functional training development & training. Design specific and discrete programmes to meet business needs e.g., sales capability training. Work with central teams to harness activity & content appropriate to specific business/functional areae.g., Commercial Effectiveness initiatives. Track progress of training & leadership development objectives. Work with Line Managers to evaluate effectiveness of specific activity based on actual impact & performance levels achieved (at aggregate business andindividual level).Profile

• Bachelors in Business Studies or related degree with strong academic achievement and CIPD qualified. Masters in Human Resource Management would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of NI and UK Employment Law is essential.
• Experienced HR professional with a minimum of 5-8 years experience in similar environments.
• Strong skills in leading change, project management & building relationships.
• In-depth knowledge of employment law and HR practices with a solid track record in managing / advising on complex / sensitive legal issues as well as considering the impact of new legislation and devising new HR policies and procedures.
• High ability to manage change effectively, display initiative and follow through on development of ideas.
• Highly developed influencing skills combined with the ability to manage a challenging and diverse client base and the confidence to question Management about actions decisions.
• Possess excellent leadership and communication skills - credible at senior level and able to challenge the status quo.
• A team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Expert skills in MS desktop software Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Job Offer

• Position can be based in Scotland or Northern Ireland
• Willingness to travel (2 sites in Scotland, 2 in Northern Ireland)
• Competitive salary + fantastic additional benefits including car allowance

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