Job Description
Role Purpose:
We are seeking a highly capable and strategic HR Business Partner to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our people agenda. This role is responsible for aligning HR strategies with business objectives, acting as a trusted advisor to leaders, and enabling high performance through effective people solutions.
The ideal candidate will bring significant experience in leading organisational change and transformation within complex, fast-paced environments, ideally within a technical, engineering, or high-performance industry. You will have a proven track record of successfully navigating ambiguity and driving cultural and structural change to support business evolution and growth.
As a key member of our HR Business Partnering team, you will take a proactive and consultative approach to influence decision-making at all levels. You’ll be deeply embedded in your business units, enabling leaders to optimise team performance, build capability, and deliver on strategic goals. Strong stakeholder management, data-informed insight, and an enterprise mindset are essential to succeed in this role.
We are looking for someone who can think big picture, challenge the status quo, and drive initiatives that support a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement in pursuit of our ambition to win multiple world championships.
Main Duties:
* Act as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, building effective partnerships to provide consultative, strategic, and tactical guidance across organisational and development initiatives.
* Contribute to the development of management capability via the Williams values & behaviours framework.
* Advise, coach and empower managers and employees on HR-related matters.
* Manage and effectively support managers to resolve all types and levels of ER cases including.
* Keep up to date with UK law and incorporate changes into our policies and procedures.
* Work with leadership to identify skills and capability gaps and, in partnership with the relevant business functions to create and implement effective workforce planning processes.
* Support people planning and review processes, partnering with the Learning and Development function on training needs identification, and solutions that improve talent development and retention.
* Use internal and external data and insights to support objective decision-making within client areas; working with the HR Operations team to optimise effective use of Workday data.
* Collaborate with Centres of Excellence to seek out efficiencies that promote customer experience and innovative process improvements within the HR team to drive a culture of sustainable high performance in our mission to win multiple world championships.
Core Competencies:
* Strategic HR Partnering – Diagnoses business needs and delivers impactful HR solutions.
* Business Acumen – In depth understanding of industry trends and dynamics and the role of HR in creating impact and customer value that are aligned to the Williams vision, strategy and goals.
* Change & Transformation Leadership – Effectively supports and drives organisational change from a people perspective.
* Stakeholder Management – Influences and engages leaders and managers to enable cultural and performance outcomes.
* Data-Driven Decision Making – Leverages insights to inform people strategy and planning.
* Workforce Planning & Organisation Design – Designs structures and plans talent pipelines to support future growth.
Qualifications & Experience:
* Proven HR experience in a strategic partnering role within a commercial environment.
* Demonstrated expertise in change management and transformation.
* Strong ER knowledge with up-to-date understanding of UK employment law.
* CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent) required.
Additional Information
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Atlassian Williams Racing is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.