Senior People Partner

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Compass Group UK & Ireland Full time
Role: Senior People Partner

Location: Remotely based with travel as required

Hours: 40 H/P/W, Monday to Friday

Pay: Competitive plus Benefits

Are you driven by the desire to create an outstanding employee experience? Do you excel in fast-paced, dynamic settings and enjoy collaborating with operational teams to drive business success? If so, Compass Group invites you to join us as a Senior People Partner within our Healthcare Team, where you'll work at a strategic level to make a real impact

As a Senior People Partner for Healthcare, you'll be instrumental in shaping and executing our HR strategy. You'll collaborate closely with key stakeholders and the broader HR team to foster a positive workplace culture. Your strategic insights will help the business reach its goals, improve customer experiences, and promote an inclusive, diverse workforce.

In this role, you'll be a trusted adviser, developing deep business insights to effectively coach and guide leaders. You'll play a crucial part in making Compass a great place to work, with a strong emphasis on employee engagement, talent management, succession planning, diversity and inclusion, and driving cultural change. You will also be responsible for applying evidence-based practices to address the people-related challenges the business faces.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Develop People Strategies: Collaborate with leadership teams to understand business goals and develop strategies to attract, develop, and retain talent, improve colleague engagement, and enhance business performance.
  • Strategic Partnering: Advise, coach, and support leadership teams on all strategic people-related matters, providing valuable insights and challenging the status quo.
  • Data-Driven Insights: Analyse people metrics to provide actionable management information, influencing people-related interventions and driving performance improvements.
  • HR Excellence: Advocate for the adoption and compliance with people policies and processes, ensuring HR products meet sector requirements.
  • Project Management: Create and deliver strategic people plans and projects, ensuring effective implementation, communication, training, and change management.
  • Annual HR Cycle: Support key HR activities, including salary reviews, talent and succession planning, performance management, and employee engagement.
  • Bid Support: Lead the people elements of bids, retenders, and presentations, ensuring a strong HR presence in business development.
  • HR Operating Model: Embed the HR operating model across the business, driving consistency and efficiency.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvement opportunities in HR processes and procedures.
  • Employee Forum: Oversee the implementation of an Employee Forum, ensuring employee voices are heard and feedback is acted upon.
  • Change Management: Support and coach leaders through organizational changes, including design and implementation.
  • Diversity & Inclusion: Champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, supporting the EDI strategy and being an active ally for employee representative groups.
  • Transformational Change: Provide expert advice on restructures, TUPE, and redundancy, ensuring a commercially focused approach to cost and efficiency improvements.
  • Employee Relations: Support complex employee relations cases and Employment Tribunals as needed.
  • Strategic HR Projects: Lead selected strategic HR projects, driving impactful outcomes.
Essential Qualifications and Experience:
  • Proven experience in designing and delivering a people plan within a People Partnering team.
  • Successful track record as a Strategic Business Partner in a fast-paced, customer-facing/operational business with a large, dispersed workforce.
  • Broad HR generalist experience, including Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Reward, Learning and Development, Employment Law (including TUPE), Employee Relations, Policy, and HR Shared Services.
  • Financially astute, commercially and digitally literate, with intermediate Microsoft Office skills.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to review and interpret management information and data.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
  • Creative, passionate, forward-thinking and human-centric approach to HR.
  • Effective project management skills with a successful record of delivering enterprise-wide projects.
  • Effective and accurate written and verbal communication skills.
  • Engaged in continuous professional development, thought leadership, and best practices.
  • Have/or working towards Level 7 CIPD - MCIPD or able to demonstrate equivalent skills, knowledge, and behaviours.
At Compass Group, we are dedicated to making our organization a great place to work. If you are ready to make a difference and help us achieve our goals, we want to hear from you

We ensure you're rewarded for all your hard work, which is why we offer a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Grow your career with our Career Pathways and MyLearning programmes
  • Quick access for you and your immediate family to a Digital GP, and wider healthcare benefits
  • Exclusive travel discounts with TUI, Expedia, Booking.com and many more
  • Save money on your food shop with discounts on Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and many more
  • Up to 44% off cinema tickets to enjoy your favourite blockbuster
  • Receive cash rewards every time you spend and use them on a wide range of brands
  • Un-wind with us with free wellness, mindfulness and exercise classes
  • You can share all discounts and offers with your friends and families
About Us

Part of Compass Group UK&I, Medirest is the specialist healthcare operating company of Compass Group UK & Ireland, providing a full range of hotel services, including staff, patient and visitor catering, domestics, portering, security and reception, at over 130 NHS Trusts and private hospitals.

Compass Group UK&I wants everyone in our business to feel able to be themselves at work and to have an equal opportunity to progress their career. We want to create a culture where we respect and embrace everyone's talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities. Where our colleagues feel valued, can reach their full potential, and thrive - Diversity is Our Strength
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