Location: Milton Keynes with hybrid working (1/2 days in the office)
CLOSING DATE: 5th April 2024
Full-time Permanent
SALARY: £51,330 - £69,444 depending on experience plus fantastic benefits
As part of a team of HR Business Partners (HRBPs) you will have responsibility for managing generalist HR guidance and support to dedicated client groups, contributing to the delivery of the Company's business and people strategies. You will act as a key partner to the functional leadership and management teams, champion a culture of high performance and assist with the design and delivery of commercially focused people solutions.
You will deliver this across a variety of activity-streams including: Employee Relations, Resource, Talent & Succession and organisational change, as well as supporting our Together for Integrity (T4I) programme, Employee Surveys and Performance and Reward cycles.
An important part of this role will see you having oversight of the HR Advisors and working closely with our Employee Relations (ER) & HR Compliance Manager to coach and guide our people managers to effectively manage all employee relations matters and formal casework, ensuring consistency and fairness of approach across the organisation. Your advice will deliver a positive outcome for the business, whilst observing employment legislation, upholding our Company values and, identifying and minimising risk.
This is a broad, varied and challenging opportunity and you will need business partnering and ER experience to be successful in this role. Interested? Below is more of what you can bring to the role
Full job description available upon request
This is how you can add value:
- You will have a broad, generalist understanding of all HR processes and activities linked to the employee lifecycle including employee relations, organisational development, talent management and building line manager capability
- You can demonstrate your experience in leading the planning and delivery of organisational design changes for the client group with a clear focus on the human element of change management in accordance with our values
- You are preferably CIPD qualified
- Demonstrable experience of complex ER case management is required as you will be delivering hands-on support with this and developing and delivering ER related workshops and training interventions
- You can demonstrate success with pro-active stakeholder management at varying levels
- You keep your knowledge and training of employment legislation and best practice up to date with evidence of CPD and sharing learnings
- You have the ability to develop and maintain strong and credible working relationships built on trust and the ability to challenge in an environment that encourages you to speak up
- Influencing and negotiating skills are key to your success and you are able to share information and build openness and commitment
- You can think strategically and creatively when it comes to problem solving, identifying pragmatic and measured solutions that put employees and managers at the heart of everything
- You can balance workload and priorities even when the goal posts can keep moving
- Proactive, flexible and pragmatic with the ability to react appropriately and effectively, managing both self and others when encountering ambiguity and fluid situations
- You have the ability to identify and translate business requirements into tangible people outcomes/initiatives and can communicate these to varying audiences across different mediums whether that's a face-to-face meeting, online meeting, presentation or written communication (emails, letters etc)
- You can use your coaching skills, facilitation and consultative techniques for effective, collaborative delivery
- Ability to balance short-term operational delivery with medium and long-term strategic thinking and planning; able to operate in the detail whilst also taking a step back to consider the bigger picture
- You can demonstrate high personal standards and commitment to Company values with the self-confidence to follow through
- High emotional intelligence and a genuine curiosity to understand people; accurately hear and understand partly expressed or unspoken thoughts, feeling or concerns
- We offer hybrid working and you will be expected to work from the office in accordance with your workload and priorities and at least 1-2 days per week
What's in it for you?
A salary ranging from £51,330 - £69,444 depending on experience and working 35 hours per week. On top of that you'll also receive an excellent benefits package including tax efficient company car from day one, 2 additional vehicles for family members after 6 months, annual discretionary bonus and salary review, 27 days holiday with the option to purchase more, access to various health and wellbeing services, private medical insurance after 6 months as well as career progression, professional development and access to LinkedIn Learning.
About Volkswagen Financial Services
Our mission is straight forward, we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. What does that mean? To make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.
Volkswagen Financial Services is committed to being an inclusive employer and we welcome applications from everyone. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is not just a statement for us and we are nurturing an environment where everyone can be their 100% self. If there is anything we can do to support you being your 100% self during our recruitment process, please let us know and we will support you as best we can
