Head of HR Business Partnering (B0267N)

149133

£66,635 - £76,866

Permanent

Human Resources

Flexible working, Full-time

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Bristol, South West, BS1 6EH : Cambridge, Eastern, CB24 3EN : Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 2GN : Liverpool, North West, L3 1BP : Leeds, Yorkshire and the Humber, LS11 9AT : Newcastle upon Tyne, North East, NE4 5BZ : Crawley, South East, RH10 1UZ

Leading our strategic approach to business partnering, this role will be critical in leading the HR Business Partners to provide strategic, proactive and insight-driven HR advice, and challenge, to the Homes England senior leadership teams.

The Head of HR Business Partnering will continuously demonstrate strong organisational knowledge and a clear overall view of the impact of people change and initiatives. They will play a critical, influential role in the organisational change and transformation agenda.

The role will lead a talented and highly experienced team of HR Business Partners who are committed to making positive change in our strategic approach to HR and people initiatives. This will be delivered by ensuring effective business partnering in HR and a joined up and value-added service is delivered to the organisation. It connects with key roles across the centres of excellence to develop products and initiatives and ensure the voice of the organisation is heard in the work of HR.

Dedicated to delivering a first-class customer service, this role is part of the HR leadership team responsible for formulation of an effective people strategy, in line with overall strategy and business objectives. Working collaboratively with key colleagues across HR and the Centres of Excellence to enhance the HR offer and ensure HR products and projects are delivered to stakeholders in the best way.

The role will act as the HR Business Partner to the Chief Executive Officer and advise them on people matters regarding their Executive team, providing professional leadership to the CE office. A truly transformational role the Head of HR Business Partnering will lead the team to embed the new approaches to performance management, workforce planning, pay and grading and reporting and management information. Working with internal and external stakeholders such as MHCLG and NRC to ensure effective communication and partnership working.

Responsibilities

Whilst your day job is to lead a team of HR Business Partners to deliver a first class strategic HR partnership to our stakeholders, you will be used to "spinning several plates" at once and will be comfortable with ambiguity and regularly changing, challenging transformational priorities. You will be used to constantly looking for ways to improve and innovate the strategic offering.

You’ll be comfortable supporting senior stakeholders with complex transformational HR issues, aiming to bring a rigorous, risk aware and collaborative approach to problem solving.

You will have comprehensive, demonstrable experience of senior stakeholder management and strategic HR partnering. You will also be CIPD qualified and hold a degree, or NVQ level 7 equivalent qualification in Human Resource Management or significant, equivalent experience at a senior level.

You will possess significant experience of leadership of a generalist HR team and business partnering roles bringing a strategic perspective with analytical and intellectual, rigor and the ability to align business strategy to HR strategy.

A record of leading and coaching a team of senior HR professionals to bring about positive strategic HR change and improvement is essential.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy. You will be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders at a senior level and your discussions will always be shaped by a good understanding of the commercial and operational impact of what we do as an HR team.

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.