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Job reference number 297568

HR Business Partner

Competitive salary
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering of 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 27.5 days after 10 years service
Full time
Permanent

Hybrid working role, 3 days per week in local service centre office

Do you want to work with enthusiastic and talented people? Do you thrive on new challenges and have the drive and determination to deliver a first-class service? We have an exciting opportunity for the right person to join our HR team to help drive change within the business.

About the role

You will support senior leaders in building the capability of the organisation to achieve and deliver short term business performance targets and the longer-term strategy. To create sustainable value through a people plan focussed on transformational and cultural change.

Additionally you will:

• Own the day to day relationship with key business stakeholders as a trusted advisor
• Develop and deliver elements of the People Plan aligned to business goals and key challenges and adapt for changing needs.
• Facilitate talent conversations with stakeholders to support the performance improvement and development of capability of their teams
• Support the people strand of change management projects liaising with the CoE, relevant stakeholders and engaging with trade unions.
• Collaborate with HRS, CoE’s and other stakeholders in the deployment of cyclical people processes including compensation, performance management, engagement, talent and succession.
• Provide support on IR issues to operational managers, supporting strategic involvement, IR issue resolution, IR project work and ensuring relationships with the Trades Unions are managed at the appropriate level.
• Utilise relevant data driven metrics and insights to facilitate conversations with stakeholders to drive the focus and delivery of performance and future planning
• Advocate and sponsor the use of the full suite of HR service offerings, acting as customer voice, role model and facilitator to ensure business adherence to, and delivery of the agreed service model

In this role you will be partnering senior teams across Parcelforce Operations as dynamic and agile HR business partner, taking direction from the Head of HR Parcelforce with a high degree of independence and autonomy to make a difference.

About you

You are able to quantifiably demonstrate the ability to build credible relationships with senior stakeholders to enable challenge and build consensus.

You can demonstrate an approach to work that is both energetic and enthusiastic, being adaptable and flexible; self-motivated and able to prioritise multiple demands.

You should also be able to demonstrate that you are resilient and independent minded to champion the organisation view with stakeholders

You will also have:

• HR technical experience including current employment law
• A track record of delivering
• Experience working in a challenging IR climate
• Change management experience such as supporting reorganizations, TUPE & MA&A
• Quantifiable experience of influencing stakeholders

Qualifications

Extra Benefits

Your career in safe hands

At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.

An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face to face or virtual interview (location dependant) consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on w/c 25th September.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

Closing Date: Sunday 10th September . Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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