Senior HR Business Partner

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Croydon, Cambridge, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Recruiter contact: Steven Johnston

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

Job Description
Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?

We are looking for a CIPD chartered (or equivalent) HR professional to undertake a business partnering role. You will be working as part of the HR team to deliver on the people agenda and play a vital role in developing relationships with key stakeholders as well as leading on exciting projects.

Your main responsibilities will be:

Stakeholder management:

• A HR business partner approach working with key stakeholders, for a client group of circa 250 employees.
• Working in partnership with the business, provide advice, guidance and lead on all employee matters.
• Building strong and sustainable relationships using effective communication skills and professional advice, being visible, accessible, and remaining delivery focussed.
• Act as the critical friend to key stakeholders and build confidence to become involved in people related decisions at a divisional level.

Advisory and operational activities

• Using a coaching style to support more junior members of the HR community and the business managers in operational activities enabling them to take the lead in managing their people.
• Fully experienced in employment relations with confidence to ensure all HR matters are handled promptly, fairly, and consistently in line with legal and company requirements.
• Provide robust advice on all HR issues, policies, terms and conditions of employment and employment / immigration legislation.
• Regularly review salaries against the internal and external benchmark data and make recommendations to the divisional exec for addressing any anomalies.
• Lead the bonus and salary review process for the division, analysing data and reviewing trends as required.
• Evaluate the senior promotions and appointments process in the division and support the bi-annual process (reviewing scorecards and papers)
• Work with the division to mitigate risk and provide challenge, advice and guidance accordingly.

Strategic HR

• Support the delivery of the people strategy at divisional level, including employee engagement, talent management and succession planning.
• Proactively deliver our EDI and wellbeing strategy at a divisional level.

Compliance

• Comply with Data Protection and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and ensure the security of employee information in accordance with legislation and best practice.
• Identify and respond to compliance matters in line with HR procedures and ensure that all operational aspect of compliance reporting are addressed.

Other

• Provide cover for the team during periods of annual leave and during peaks in workload.
• Support with the provision of workshops to upskill and develop the HR community in the unit and across the region.
• Support regional or Group projects as and when required.
• To build good working relationships and networks across the business and the wider HR community

Candidate Specification

• You will be CIPD chartered (or equivalent).
• Will possess well developed leadership capability in executing unit or regional projects.
• You will have well-developed interpersonal skills and an ability to build strong relationships with HR colleagues across the Group and other stakeholders.
• You will have excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Can demonstrate strong organisational skills and exhibit excellent attention to detail.
• You will have excellent knowledge of HR practices and policies as well as Employment legislation.
• Will have a good understanding of analytics and translate key metrics into outcomes.
• Adept in the use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Commercial acumen and experience in an engineering or consultancy environment
• Experience of delivering value add initiatives/projects e.g., EDI, STEM, engagement etc
• Experience with Power BI and/or SAP (Success Factors)
• Experience of non-UK HR activities and legislation.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need. #LI-SJ1

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We put equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can assist.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.