Associate HRBP

Associate HRBP

Location: Salford, Manchester Quay House , M50 2QH
Length: 3 months
Rate: £22.03 – £24.17 p/h (Inside IR35)
Hours: Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm (2 Days per week in office)
Interview Process: 1 stage Microsoft Teams interview

Role Function:
Working as part of a central Divisional Support Team within People services or a Divisional HR team within Studios, the role is aligned and embedded within a Division and will partner with divisional teams and/or the business to enable the delivery of all employee lifecycle and divisional people plans in partnership with the wider HR Team.

Key Responsibilities:

• To act as an internal consultant, contracting on key activity required by  the Division.
• Effective growth and management of a key relationships within the business and/or the wider HR Team to enable swift and accurate response to requests for support.
• To proactively highlight or support on complex queries, and requests received by the divisional team, ensuring they are either resolved or managed appropriately.
• To understand what is important to the Division and their Business Leaders, through being visible and present within both the HR, and wider business environment.
• Keep a focus on continuous improvement opportunities, and take accountability for developing options to resolve; or set out proposals and options to improve.
• Use internal agreed escalation paths to proactively deal with queries from the divisions.
• To ensure collaboration across the Divisional team and/or People Services to promote a culture of continuous improvement, and share/learn from each other.
• For roles embedded in People Services, responsible for raising profile of People Services, helping the business to understand routes into HR by being an advocate for our digital and self-service approach.
• Accountable for the delivery of quality and timely work, which meets or exceeds the businesses expectations.
• To provide internal support within the wider HR and/or People Services team for activities linked to the wider HR agenda.
• To foster a culture of service excellence, role-modelling this and coaching team to deliver customer focus and management of expectations.
• Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness people solutions and understand the landscape for further improvement.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across HR, facilitating two-way communication between the business, translating business requirements and needs back into the HR and/or People Services function.
• Actively look to embed knowledge transfer both within the division being supported, the divisional support team or the wider HR team.
• Be an ambassador for the function and represent HR internally and externally (as appropriate).

Essential

• Experience of working in complex / matrix structures
• Able to harness IT tools and systems to enable your performance

Able to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and ability to develop, maintain, and enhance relationships with a variety of contacts; strong influencing and persuading skills

• Analytical skills and the ability to resolve logistically complex problems
• Compares and contrasts situations and information, identifying patterns and trends that inform subsequent decisions
• Creates a sense of team spirit, encouraging shared ownership of objectives and deliverables
• Be a role model for the Values
• Use of process improvement tools and their application
• Ability to grow productive and meaningful relationships within the business and HR teams
• Self-generate development opportunities and take ownership of own career growth
• Strong HR Advisor or BP experience

Desirable

• Prior experience working with people systems (such as SAP)
• Prior experience working in a centralised/shared service centre environment (for roles embedded in People Services)
• Experience in delivering an HR Partnering approach