[Royal Mail]
Job reference 322707
Senior HR Business Partner - Corporate Centre Transformation
Competitive salary, plus car allowance, healthcare, 18% annual bonus potential, 27.5 days annual leave plus bank holidays rising with serve and a company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates.
Contract: 12 Months Fixed Term, Full time
Location: Royal Mail, 185 Farringdon Road, London, EC1A 1BB - hybrid working (3 days in-office)
Are you a strategic HR professional ready to make a real impact? We're looking for an experienced leader to join us on a 12-month journey of transformation across our Corporate Functions. Working closely with the HR Director for the Corporate Centre, you’ll help shape the future of our organisation—building capability, driving cultural change, and supporting senior leaders to deliver both short-term performance and long-term strategic success.
If you're passionate about turning people strategy into measurable results and thrive in a fast-paced, autonomous role, this could be the opportunity for you.
About the role
The role holder will be expected to act autonomously and make decisions to deliver business success with limited direct involvement from the HR Director Corporate Functions.
You will:
* Drive Strategic People Change agenda across the Corporate Functions for next 12 months, working alongside the HRD for Corporate Centre.
* Support senior leaders in building the capability of the organisation to achieve and deliver short term business performance targets and the longer-term strategy.
* Create sustainable value through People Change programmes focussed on transformational and cultural change.
* Lead on People focused Change focused on cultural and transformational change that are aligned to business goals and are adaptable for changing needs.
* Deliver change activities such as organizational design and restructures (from design to delivery/ implementation), TUPE transfers and Merger & Acquisition activity and engage relevant CoE’s/ HRS teams to deliver the change.
* Manage key senior stakeholder relationships as a trusted advisor and provide informed HR consulting to stakeholders, holding the tension when needed to ensure appropriate people solutions are deployed.
* Utilise relevant data and insights to facilitate conversations with stakeholders to drive business outcomes.
About You
* CIPD Level 7 qualified
* Experienced in organisational design and implementation
* Able to evidence ownership & accountability for driving transformation
* Change management, able to act as a change agent to deliver people change and transformation programmes and support stakeholders in managing change
* Trusted advisor, able to influence and build relationships with senior stakeholders to effectively challenge and build consensus
* Delivering Results - ensuring delivery of the most important priorities, measuring progress, and ensuring accountability against key metrics
* Collaborative approach and ability to think critically, logically, and analytically
* Resilient and tenacious
* Adaptability and flexibility of approach; comfortable with ambiguity and able to balance multiple priorities effectively
* Deep understanding of the business and commercial challenges and future business strategy and how these impact on the customer
* Independent minded; able to champion the organisation view with stakeholders
* Well-developed negotiation and influencing skills
Extra Benefits
• 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
• Your Wellbeing - you and your family have 24/7 access to services and tools to help you get the most out of life. From your physical and mental health to financial and social support and advice. It’s free, and it’s for everyone.
*Available only to perm employees
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions.
Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.
We understand that candidates may not meet all the criteria for the role. If your experience is different, but you have relevant skills we’d love to hear from you.
Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.
We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.
Closing Date: Sunday 22nd June. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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