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HR Business Partner

Employer
BPP Education Group
Location
London (Liverpool Street) with regular travel to Manchester
Salary
£47,000 - £50,000 (dependent on skills & experience)
Closing date
14 Dec 2019

Who we are 

BPP is a global education provider delivering world-class professional qualifications.  The group delivers undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, apprenticeships and professional qualifications across the UK, internationally and through innovative online platforms. When you work with BPP, you will be part of a business that really believes in supporting your personal and professional development. 

Role summary

This is a key generalist HR role strategically partnering with your designated business units, utilising your excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills to drive employee engagement, embed company culture, identify and develop talent, lead OD and ER, and develop people management capability.

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Senior HR Business Partner your key responsibilities will include the following:

Business Engagement:
•    Understand your designated business units and proactively coach, influence and support the senior managers to achieve their vision and goals by providing expert people management advice and solutions.
•    Build and develop a professional HR relationship with senior managers, to achieve continuous improvement and identify trends for action.
•    Embed BPP’s values and expected behaviours.

People Management competencies:
•    Coach and support our people managers in the adoption of best-in-class HR practices.
•    Develop and deliver HR related training to improve the competencies and management expertise of BPP’s people managers.
•    Work proactively with the L&D team with identifying training needs, designing and delivering training sessions as required to improve line manager capability.

Employee Relations: 
•    Lead on and/or support individual ER cases and issues across the various business units.
•    Work with the other HRBPs to ensure HR advice, policy and procedure is consistent and prioritised across the organisation.
•    Deal effectively with any complex HR queries or cases which have been escalated from the wider HR team.
•    Support the BPP Legal team with Employment Tribunal preparation and submissions. 

Change Management: 
•    To proactively support operational restructures and change programmes following company policy and HR best practice.
•    Highlight and mitigate any potential risks.
•    Coach and support managers through change, for e.g. in delivering business rationale, conducting formal meetings. 
•    Ensure all key internal stakeholders (incl. payroll, HR operations and Reward) are engaged and updated on change developments. Ensure any HR issues are tracked and if appropriate, ensure HR operational processes are completed effectively

Role requirements

CIPD-qualified and with an HR qualification to degree or equivalent level, you will have extensive generalist HR experience and significant experience leading on complex disciplinary, performance and grievance cases.  Your highly developed and practical Employment Law and ER knowledge alongside your ability to translate business needs into HR best practice enables you to apply your HR knowledge with a common-sense, pragmatic approach.

Adept at building effective relationships at senior level, you possess excellent stakeholder management skills and have a proven ability to collaborate effectively with teams and departments across an organisation.

With excellent change management and proven partnering skills to engage, enthuse and influence others, you will have the ability to coach and support managers through significant change.

Finally, with outstanding communication skills, your strong knowledge and understanding of the employee lifecycle and ability to coach and support other HR leads to develop aspects of the service will be key to this role.

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