Senior People Business Partner Heathrow, England
Job description
This is an exciting time to join the British Airways People Partnering team as we embark on a journey to transform our colleague experience.
As a Senior People Business Partner, you would lead a team of People Business Partners and work closely with Management Committee (C-suite) members to enhance organisational performance and deliver the People strategy.
British Airways is a business of 34,000 colleagues across 60 different countries and several different bargaining units. Our team of five Senior People Business Partners use their expertise to navigate complexity and guide their teams to successfully deliver the business priorities.
Whilst we currently have two opportunities available, it is also our intention to build a talent pool of candidates to meet our future requirements for this role.
About the role
- Partners BA MC members to develop and deliver People Plans in the context of the people strategy and business objectives.
- Delivering quality results, on time and to budget. Build a strong team of People Business Partners; focused on both ‘what’ is delivered, and ‘how’.
- Provides a blend of challenge, support, and space to optimise performance of individuals and the team.
- Constantly review business and people performance, using data driven insight to challenge the status quo. Ensures the three priorities of customer, shareholder and colleague are balanced.
- Ensures our organisational design is optimised, spotting opportunities to transform the way we work, driving step change in performance by increasing our efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborates with members of the People Partnering Leadership team, HR Operations, and centres of expertise to ensure a seamless service is provided by the People directorate.
About you
- Resilient, business and customer focussed.
- Experience of working in a complex and matrixed business.
- Experience of supporting a global colleague base (preferred not essential)
- IR experience (preferred not essential)
- CIPD (preferred not essential)
Our Corporate and Support roles come with big potential to make your mark on our business. The airline industry changes so fast that we’re constantly evolving and finding new ways to impress customers and get ahead of our competitors. If you’re an innovator and brave and bold, you will be in your element at British Airways.
Your impact on British Airways will be rewarded with a competitive rewards package plus the opportunity to develop and progress your career in many directions.
Not only will you have the chance to further your career development within BA, you’ll have access to our competitive reward and benefits package. This includes core company paid benefits such as a Defined Contribution pension scheme, generous Life Assurance cover and a whole host of options to support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing. You can also sign up for a range of voluntary benefits such as Private Medical cover, Dental and Critical Illness cover, Technology Scheme, Cycle to Work and Electric Car Scheme. And of course, you’ll be able to enjoy the benefit of staff travel as soon as you join us.
We are an equal opportunities employer and value diversity at British Airways. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.
N.B. We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities
