HR Business Partner

Norfolk

To act as the primary interface with all operational activities with senior management in the businesses and contribute to the delivery of overall business goals. To enable the business to achieve its goals by having the right people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time.

Your principal accountabilities and other tasks will be carried out in the framework of our valued behaviours: Pioneering spirit, Integrity, Energy, Resilience.

Principle Accountabilities

  • Provide full HR consultancy to the region/businesses
  • Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and leaders in the business
  • Using experience, skills and knowledge of the HR industry to make an impact in key areas such as change management, organisational design, employee engagement and talent analytics
  • Supporting line managers across the business on organisational structure and design
  • Champion HR initiatives across the region and act as an representative for the HR function
  • Drive the implementation HR initiatives and operational people plans within the region/ businesses
  • Initiate and influence change management programmes
  • Act as change agent, leading, supporting and contributing to change initiatives
  • Champion communication and employee engagement across the business
  • Coach senior managers
  • Support the development of the senior management team as a whole
  • Develop and implement new working practices
  • Identify issues and trends, and explore underlying causes in order to provide effective HR solutions/projects/initiatives
  • Align and design HR solutions to support business and people strategies
  • Drive the people implications of business and people strategies
  • Ensure delivery of high-value HR activity to the business
  • Pro-actively manage partnerships with specialist and shared service teams
  • Identify and feedback issues to the Lead HRBP
  • Ensure all financial implications are considered and agreed if outside of budget.
  • Pro-actively manage, advise and support the full HR life cycle in region and businesses
  • Other tasks / General

  • Undertake any other reasonable ad hoc duties, including projects, as and when required.
  • Support other areas outside of own direct functional responsibilities to achieve the objectives of the department.
  • Contribute to the continuous improvement of the HR service to the business
  • Qualifications & Experience

    Technical skills/professional qualifications

  • Sound up to date employment law knowledge and an understanding of its practical application with a commercial approach
  • CIPD qualified (or equivalent) (Not essential but desired)
  • Strong IT skills for communication and documentation (ie. Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Organisational design and development
  • Employee engagement
  • Change management
  • Learning and Development
  • Talent management
  • Performance management
  • James Fisher & Sons are committed to taking positive action on diversity and we strongly encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and as a Disability Confident employer we are committed to offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.