HR Consultant

7 months ago

Reading, United Kingdom Thames Water Utilites Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR professional to work alongside Thames Water managers providing the link between the operational business and our People team.

You will deliver a professional, high quality and customer-focused HR service to our leaders across a variety of business areas.

You will be responsible for overseeing, facilitating, and carrying out generalist HR processes that in turn support Thames Water in the delivery of business objectives while enabling our employees to flourish.

You will have the opportunity to build and manage internal relationships with key stakeholders to enhance and continually improve the quality of our HR service.

**What you’ll be doing as the HR Consultant**
- Support people managers with the employee lifecycle and implementation and delivery of our people strategy.
- Partnering effectively to deliver a high-quality HR service to our people.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to our people managers and leaders with recommendations to assist and influence decision-making.
- Analyse and interpret HR people data to measure and manage performance and communicate the results and findings to our leaders across the business.
- Making recommendations & advice following data analysis.
- Work with people managers and our Employee Relations team offering advice and support on cases and potential risks.
- Working closely with the HR teams across the business to support the delivery of business needs, ensuring strategies and planned benefits are understood and influencing HR thinking and solutions.

Base Location: This is a hybrid role with a base location of Clearwater Court, Reading, RG1 8DB.

Working hours are Monday to Friday, 9 am-5 pm, 36 Hours per week.

**What you should bring to the role**
- Experience across a broad spectrum of HR disciplines with an understanding of broad legal implications.
- Associate Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) or equivalent is essential, with Membership or equivalent is desirable.
- Ability to lead and make strong and influential relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
- Ability to analyse HR and business metrics and develop solutions.
- Skilled at making influential decisions in a business context, shaping and influencing others.
- Be comfortable challenging current practices and making recommendations for continuous improvement using successful change management.
- A solid understanding of employee engagement, and how to coach leaders to understand and create value from them.
- Experienced in the implementation of people initiatives and able to develop metrics to measure impact.
- Driver’s licence and access to a vehicle for work for occasional travel.

**What’s in it for you?**
- Competitive salary between £42,000 to £54,000 per annum.
- Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
- Contributory pension - Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee** **contribution.
- Personal Medical Assessments - Open to all once a year.
- Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

**Who are we?**

At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

**Working at Thames Wate**r**

At Thames Water, we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, backgrounds, and differences that each individual brings.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

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