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About the role
The role of a HR People Partner ER and Change is key to the success of our growth plans as this will be supporting and implementing the People strategy. The role will require travel across our locations to build strong relationships with line managers and colleagues. We are seeking a highly capable HR professional with the ambition and drive to succeed in a high growth business environment.
The role of HR People Partner role has four main areas of responsibility:
• To lead people projects, initiatives and activity that contributes to the overall company performance including ER casework.
• Drive colleague development and ensure the business is continuously improving People through effective people management and ensure that legislation is adhered to.
• Monitoring and influencing fairness and consistency in all activities connected with the management of all our colleagues.
• As Wavenet continues to acquire companies, you will support the TUPE Transfer process for new colleagues, supporting them to integrate into Wavenet teams.
The role holder needs to be different things to different people and key to your success is building strong internal relationships across the Group. We are seeking an ambitious and customer centric individual to join our team. It is desirable that you are CIPD qualified to level 5/7 standard and that you have at multiple years’ experience of working as a ER Advisor or an ER focused HR Business Partner. You will need to demonstrate a strong track-record of both employee relations case work, and the ability to deliver impactful HR projects. With the strong growth that Wavenet is experiencing, you’ll need to have the ability to multi-task and work to tight deadlines.
If you want to further your career in HR and get an all-round generalist experience from a vibrant and fast-paced organisation, this might be the role for you.
Responsibilities (but not limited to):
The extent of your duties will include but are not limited to:
• Be a trusted partner to the business, providing coaching and feedback to managers and colleagues.
• Develop, organise and facilitate Human Resources best practices and programmes to meet the strategic business needs.
• Supporting managers on all aspects of the employment life cycle including investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, TUPE and employment tribunals to minimise business risk and be able to manage ER caseload.
• Educate Management on policies and good practices across all aspects of people agenda guiding and influencing managers to ensure fairness and consistency in decision making.
• Provide guidance to resolve employee issues by evaluating and offering possible courses of action and direction for resolution.
• Assist in improving culture and morale and increasing performance through implementation and management of company recognition programmes and initiatives.
• Analyse data and draw conclusions making recommendations to increase colleague engagement to aid the people strategy.
• Monitor and review compensation and benefits guidelines and exceptions.
• Leading on broader change projects that impact the people agenda.
• Working closely with internal colleagues to build meaningful relationships to aid the HR team.
The successful candidate will have:
• CIPD qualified to level 5 or 7 standard and that you have at multiple years’ experience of working in a HR Business Partner or ER Advisor Role
• Demonstrable experience of Managing ER case work.
• Significant experience as a HR Business Partner or ER Advisor Role in an office environment with a high level of attention to detail.
• Experience of providing excellent customer service.
• A team player and the ability to work with people of all working styles, backgrounds, experience, etc.
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