People Partner

2 months ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Activate Group Limited Full time

Job title: People Partner - Activate Accident Repair

Department: People Team

Location: Hybrid - travel is essential across our Group sites 2-3 days a week

Hours: 37.5 hours per week. 10am-4pm core hours

We're looking for an HR generalist People Partner to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

This is an exciting position, supporting the site-based managers of our chain of accident repair centres with their people needs. As a  People Partner, you will partner with people managers across to the Group to lead their teams, including recruitment, talent, employee relations, engagement and organisational design initiatives. You'll be working with a busy and energetic HR team who pride themselves on their collaborative and supportive culture. 

You'll be joining a team of dog lovers - photo included because we believe that pictures of pets make adverts 100x better.

Key responsibilities

  • Collaborate with people managers to understand their objectives and related people needs, guiding and coaching where needed  
  • Share and interrogate people data and insights with people managers to identify issues and inform decision-making     
  • Own the employee relations caseload, guiding and advising people managers on all cases and escalating where necessary to ensure that risks are minimised, and appropriate outcomes reached  
  • Ensure all roles have clear job descriptions and are evaluated in line with the Group career map 
  • Own the people manager toolkits, continually updating and creating policies and guidance as needed  
  • Identify development needs and create upskilling and training sessions to deliver to people managers where required 
  • Support performance and pay review processes, helping people managers to make robust, data driven decisions 
  • Support people managers to recruit, facilitating attraction and recruitment activity, ensuring all areas are fully resourced and ongoing recruitment is managed appropriately 
  • Lead high volume recruitment campaigns and take a key role in attending attraction events such as careers fairs, and apprentice and training provider events 
  • Support people managers with the Group engagement survey, driving completion rates, exploring results, and implementing and tracking local action plans 
  • Support the delivery of Group People Plan activities / change initiatives 
  • Support the development of People Administrators and Apprentices as needed, coaching and task managing where required  
  • Act as an ambassador for the Group Values, ensuring that the values are embedded in every stage of the team member journey 

Skills and experience

  • Excellent knowledge of UK employment legislation and HR best practice 
  • Previous experience providing generalist HR support in a fast-paced manufacturing / production environment 
  • Experience of working closely with people managers to drive results 
  • Experience of supporting change initiatives 
  • Experience of implementing HR solutions 
  • Good knowledge and understanding of partnered business area(s)  
  • CIPD Level 5 qualified/working towards (or equivalent experience) 
  • Ability to influence people managers 
  • Strong relationship building/client management skills 
  • Ability to work confidentially with sensitive information 
  • Ability to solve complex problems based on the analysis of multiple sources of information  
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills 
  • Strong IT skills, including systems and Excel data analysis and presentation  
  • Strong coaching skills  
  • Project management skills 

Benefits

  • Competitive salary
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Car Allowance
  • Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
  • Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
  • Life assurance: three times basic salary
  • Free breakfasts and fruit
  • Birthday surprise for everybody

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

We also love to have fun together

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Vision - To be the transformational leader in data-driven, customer-focused, accident and repair management.

Purpose - Make someone's bad day better

Values - 

  • Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
  • Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
  • Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.

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