Senior HR Business Partner - South Midlands - Hybrid Working

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Job reference number 299307Senior HR Business Partner - South Midlands - Hybrid WorkingCompetitive salaryCar allowance (£4,800 or £4,300 as cash)Family HealthcareAnnual bonus potentialGenerous annual leave offering of 27.5 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 10 years serviceFull timePermanentSouth Midlands Mail Centre, Northampton, NN4 9DRA new position has arisen for an experienced Senior HRBP to join the team operating within the newly created region of South midlands England Operations at Royal Mail. It’s a big business with bags of potential for an ambitious HR professional to make a difference.About The RoleIn this role you will partner with the Regional Operations Director in building the capability of the operation to achieve short-term business targets and the longer-term strategy. You will create sustainable value through the development and deployment of a People Plan focused on transformational and cultural change coupled with a focus on talent growth and retention.As a key member of the Regional Leadership Team you will work alongside the Regional Operations Director to promote a culture that delivers on promises and, through this, supports a trusting workplace and great working relationships at all levels which deliver excellent customer service and business performance.As a Subject Matter Expert, you will provide informed HR consulting to the Regional Operations Director and other key stakeholders to ensure that business and people plans and priorities are aligned for success.You will use robust management information to provide insight, challenge and potential solutions to operations on key people issues to stimulate behavioural change and the prioritisation of action to drive improvement against the people priorities.You will work collaboratively with the Regional Leadership Team to ensure the successful deployment of our cyclical people processes including compensation, engagement, performance management, talent and succession.As an advocate of continual professional development you will work alongside the Regional Operations Director to build the capability of the Leadership Team to drive higher performance and deliver business goals.You will work with HR colleagues to lead and/or support on people change and management projects, which may include proactively engaging with Trade Unions to mitigate risk and diffuse any potential conflict.You will advocate and sponsor the use of full suite of HR service offerings, acting as customer voice, role model and facilitator to ensure business adherence to, and delivery of the agreed service model. This is a hybrid working role with the expectation that you will be in office for three days per week. The location of the office can be your closest RM Operations building.About YouTo be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and attributes.

• CIPD qualified with experience as a Senior HRBP in an operational environment
• Evidence of excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills gained in a senior HRBP role, including the ability to quickly establish relationships and influence people at all levels of an organisation
• Ability to provide business insights by absorbing substantial amounts of complex information quickly and accurately to enable you to effectively influence senior stakeholders to take appropriate action
• Experience of operating in and delivering change in a highly unionised environment
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities across a wide span and spectrum of accountabilities
• Will thrive in a complex and demanding environment and have the ability to handle conflict situations effectively
• Possess the confidence and ability to effectively challenge senior leaders and peers
• Ability to cope with ambiguity and to champion change
• Experience of working as a HR professional in a large organisation (with c10,000 people),
• Track record of working in a matrix ideology, across multi-sites
• Proven ability to use data to recommend to Senior Leadership Teams where action should be focused
• Experience of working with a shared services HR function.

Extra Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement of 27.5 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with years completed service
• Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay
• Access to our Feeling First Class service, providing both mental and physical wellbeing support
• Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
• Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
• Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
• Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
• Free stamps at Christmas
• Available only to perm employees

Your career in safe handsAt Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/Next StepsThe next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on OR w/c 11th of September.Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/Closing Date: Friday 8th of September. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.#RMG