Senior HR Business Partner

1 month ago


Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom Royal Mail Group Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior HR Business Partner to join our HR Operations team based in the South. As a key member of our Strategic Business Partner team, you will play a pivotal role in driving employee engagement, organisational success, and fostering a positive work environment.

Reporting into the Head of HR South, you will partner with the Regional Operations Directors to achieve short-term business targets and the longer-term strategy. You will develop People Plans, focused on culture and transformational change that are aligned to business goals and adapted for changing needs.

Key responsibilities include:

  1. Providing informed HR consulting to stakeholders to ensure that business and people plans and priorities are aligned, utilising relevant data-driven metrics.
  2. Coaching and line managing 1 Business Partner.
  3. Leading and supporting change management projects and proactively engaging with trade unions.
  4. Mitigating risk and diffusing potential conflict, particularly around the deployment of change activities.
  5. Supporting and coaching senior leaders and Business Partners in the management of significant IR/ER issues.
  6. Collaborating with the Regional Leadership Team to ensure the successful deployment of our people processes centred around compensation, engagement, performance management, talent, and succession.
  7. Advocating and sponsoring the use of the full suite of HR service offerings, acting as customer voice, role model, and facilitator to ensure business adherence.

About You
To succeed in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:

  • Strong HR technical experience including current employment law.
  • Change management experience and supporting the deployment of change.
  • Deep understanding of business and commercial challenges and future business strategy and how these impact on the customer.

Benefits

  • RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer.
  • Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave, and shared parental leave.
  • Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays, and your household bills.
  • Supportive and generous company sick pay.
  • Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life.

Next Steps

The next stage of the selection process will be a face-to-face/virtual interview consisting of competency-based and role-specific questions.

Royal Mail is 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.



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