HR Business Partner

Role: HR Business Partner

contract: 3-6 Months Contract - Opportunity for longer term employment

Based: Manchester (Hybrid working)

Salary: -45,000 - -60,000

Adecco Manchester are supporting our global fintech client to find a dynamic and strategic HR Business Partner to provide HR support to People Leaders and employees within their business. In this pivotal role, you will partner with leadership of all levels to drive impactful people strategies that align with our business objectives. You will be a trusted advisor, leveraging your expertise to foster a high-performance culture and contribute directly to their continued growth and success. Reporting to the HR Director this role will provide strategic HRBP generalist support to People Leaders and employees within their dedicated client groups. In partnership with the HR Shared Service Centre, you will cover functional HR areas including leadership development, talent management, strategy, employee engagement, compensation, reward, organisational development, and change projects. This position plays a key role in developing a high-performance culture with engaged teams in a positive working environment.

Daily Duties:-

• Operate as a strategic HR Business Partner, build strong and credible relationships with key stakeholders.
• Work with autonomy to partner with the business and HR leadership to develop and implement HR strategies and people imperatives to support the business needs including driving people performance, revenue, organisational effectiveness, and growth.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to the business on HR process design, implementation, employment law, talent management, talent development, and execution of all HR needs supporting the business and People Leaders with HR queries or issues.
• Support organisational design and restructuring initiatives in your dedicated client groups in multiple jurisdictions to optimise structure, roles and responsibilities.
• Be a subject matter expert for HR best practices and impart knowledge to global HR colleagues, People Leaders, and employees where applicable and appropriate to do so.
• Partner with leaders of all levels to provide advice and coaching on employment-related matters to enable them to effectively manage issues including performance issues and terminations of employment.
• Act as a liaison between the business and HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and business units, ensuring alignment of HR programs, policies, and initiatives with business needs and objectives.
• Demonstrate strong project management skills, including planning, organizing, stakeholder management, and executing HR initiatives with attention to detail and effective time management. Contributing to and/or leading ad-hoc HR projects.
• Provide strategic guidance and support on change management initiatives, ensuring effective communication and stakeholder engagement throughout the change process.
• Contribute to the development of efficient, scalable HR processes, modified as appropriate to support corporate

Talent and Culture

• Facilitate the annual HR lifecycle for your dedicated client groups including the annual performance review process, compensation planning, talent management programs, and talent development processes.
• Partner with People Leaders in your client groups on strategic workforce planning initiatives, forecast talent needs and identify succession and development opportunities.
• Partner with People Leaders to implement learning and development strategies and initiatives including internal training and building capability across all levels within your dedicated client group.
• Identify skills gaps and collaborate with the Talent team to implement leadership and management development programs.
• Use HR analytics to provide insights on workforce trends, opportunities for improvement, engagement, and performance to influence decision-making. Translate insights into actionable recommendations that support organisational goals and drive business success.
• Support People Leaders to continuously enhance employee engagement including the annual survey and effective action-planning in Europe.
• Partner with the global Employee Relations team to provide expert advice on complex HR cases and to proactively implement preventable measures ensuring a risk-based approach to employee relations and compliance.

Experience You''ll Bring

Essential

• CIPD qualified ideally level 5 to level 7
• HRBP experience
• Sound understanding and application of employment law.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into HR solutions.
• Experience with HR Project Management..
• Strong people skills; relates well to people from all backgrounds and levels; able to work across cultures.
• Effective decision maker and problem solver with a growth mindset.
• Effective communicator and great stakeholder management capabilities with the ability to build strong trusting relationships.

Preferred skills:-

• M&A experience (pre and post-activity/change management).
• Numerate & able to use Excel to intermediate level; strong analytical skills and ability to manipulate and present data.
• Able to deal with setbacks and change - must be robust in approach and flexible.
• Works at pace - has energy, enthusiasm, and a positive attitude.
• Flexibility and customer-focused approach to work effectively and responsively in a fast changing environment.
• Demonstrated attention to quality and strategic orientation to work.
• Experience of using Workday as a HRIS.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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