HR Business Partner

Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a **HR Business Partner** to join our Enabling Functions team supporting our BB Homes and Regional Buildings businesses.

The role will involve travel to Kettering, Birmingham and London as well as other project sites on an ad hoc basis.

As an **HR Business Partner**you will be:

- Supporting leaders in diagnosing the current effectiveness of the organisation and outlining robust proposals that give confidence in reliably achieving the medium term business outcomes. Diagnosis and proposals should consider structure, culture, peopleand skills and end to end processes in the context of the business strategy. Accountable for achieving this in a empowering way and ensuring that key strategic themes of collaboration and innovation are integrated;
- Ensuring plans to develop capability are appropriate to achieve the business strategy. This includes identifying critical skills gaps and a plan to close the gaps using a combination of formal and informal learning. The person in the role will also be accountablefor planning and implementation of activity to ensure line managers and leaders are engaging and capable and professional individuals are engaged in their development and career progression and vibrant professional communities are created within the business;
- Creating and implementing a resource plan that optimises expertise to confidently meet the requirements of our current and future workload. This includes forecasting requirements for strategic hires, graduates, apprentices and trainees aligned to locationsand professions;
- Driving the full scope of the talent agenda including succession planning so that talented individuals are appropriately identified, have development plans that will enable them to move into bigger roles and are engaged in their development and career progression;
- Accountable for supporting leadership teams with architecting and embedding a culture that’s inclusive, engaging, innovative, collaborative, safe and committed to high quality and high performance outcomes. It’s expected that supporting leaders with teameffectiveness sessions will be an important feature of achieving this;
- Supporting the leadership teams with activities relating to employee engagement including action planning, feedback and long term engagement strategy which aligns to customer requirements;
- Owning the interface with HR teams within Balfour Beatty to ensure HR operational excellence, maximum value for the business and a seamless and well understood cycle of HR activity for individuals.

**The following qualities/experience are essential**:

- Have a proven track record in establishing credible relationships with senior leadership teams, organisational and cultural change initiatives and creating and implementing HR strategies;
- Successfully operated in a large complex environment and be driven to play a key role in business improvement;
- Demonstrable experience working within the context of complex, matrix organisations is required;
- Experience of leading Organisational Effectiveness programmes and complex change;
- Experience as a key player in the creating an effective organisation. Particularly at a leadership team level, an ability to ensure that individual and team profiles are appropriate to deliver requirements will be important;
- Experience of project managing initiatives relevant to HR Technical knowledge and broad understanding of ER context - ie re-organisations;
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with senior stakeholders including the ability to constructively challenge those in more senior positions;
- Have highly developed commercial skills, be emotionally intelligent and able to coach and influence senior colleagues;
- Understanding of the wider employment, skills and training landscape;
- Collaborative with an exceptional ability to manage a large number of stakeholders;
- A strong communicator who is confident and articulate.

**The following qualities/experience/qualifications are desirable**:

- CIPD qualified.

Balfour Beatty’s Enabling Functions includes our centralised HR, IT, Procurement, Finance, Health & Safety, Sustainability and Comms teams. Together we support Balfour Beatty to deliver projects on behalf of our clients. We operate according to our Buildto Last values of Lean, Expert, Trusted, Safe and Sustainable.