Senior HR Business Partner

Are you an experienced HR Business Partner looking to join a high performing HR department in a world leading organisation?

Join the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and play a key role play building the capacity, capability and commitment of our employees.

About the CMA

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging. 

As we respond to the changing markets in an increasingly digitalised world, it is essential we continue to be a high performing organisation. 

The role

As Senior HR Business Partner, you will be at the heart of all people-related activities, both operational and strategic, enabling the high performance of individuals and teams through a client-facing, diagnostic, coaching and facilitative approach.

Delivering strategic solutions in partnership with CMA senior leaders, your key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering key elements of the People, Capability and Culture plan throughout the year, such as Performance Management, Employee Experience, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and more 
• Enabling, coaching and challenging CMA leaders and managers on the implementation and delivery of people management practices
• Providing professional support to leaders and managers on complex and/or sensitive employee relations issues
• Promoting best practice in people management across the CMA
• Monitoring and interpreting HR analytics and sharing these insights with leaders and managers

About you

You will need previous HR Business Partner experience gained with a professional service and/or public sector organisation, in addition to a range of generalist HR experience.

Experience in planning and delivering effective organisational change projects with stakeholders, including interventions to shape culture and overcome barriers to change is equally important.

You will also need experience in supporting managers with complex employee relations matters, using employment law knowledge to mitigate risk and resolve cases. 

In return, CMA is a hugely rewarding, diverse and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. All CMA staff enjoy generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, and favourable consideration of flexible working. 

To find out more about this opportunity and working for the CMA please click the apply button.

Closing date for completed applications: 11:55 pm on Thursday 13th June 2024.

Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.

The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds. 

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.