Team –People
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in either the Vitality Stockport or Bournemouth Offices. Full time, 35 hours per week.
We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
1. Strategic stakeholder management & Influence
2. Expertise in Employee Relations and Employment Law
3. Ability to present actionable insights and HR business proposals to leadership
What this role is all about:
The purpose of the HR Business Partner is to provide an exceptional HR service to a portfolio of business areas in a commercial and fast paced environment.
You will work closely with senior stakeholders, including the Executive team members for your business areas. You will build strong and effective relationships with your stakeholders, becoming a trusted advisor on all people matters. You will identify and anticipate business needs and ensure people solutions are in place to address them, engaging relevant specialist areas within the people function where required. You will act as a conduit between your partner areas’ leadership teams and the People function.
You will provide both operational support, such as overseeing complex employee relations issues, ensuring people risks and regulatory obligations are met, and assisting with senior level recruitment, as well as strategic support, including driving future workforce planning and advising your stakeholders and the People Leadership team on people initiatives that will enhance performance and customer service in your business areas.
As a senior member of the people team, you will be responsible for the delivery of People Plan initiatives including those specific to your business area as well as group-wide initiatives.
Key Actions
4. Workforce Planning: Lead initiatives on future workforce and organisational needs for assigned business areas, including organisation and role design
5. Coaching and guidance of leadership teams: Build strong and trusting relationships with assigned leadership teams up to Executive level, providing coaching and guidance as needed on all aspects of people management
6. Employee Relations: Manage or oversee complex and sensitive HR/ER cases, ensuring compliance, evaluating and mitigating risk and balancing these with business needs
7. Data-Driven Insights: Analyse people data to identify trends, inform decisions, and present actionable recommendations to improve engagement and employee experience.
8. Project Delivery: Lead and support assigned elements of People Plan initiatives and HR projects from concept to completion, including change management. Play a key role in implementing and embedding people plan items
9. Collaboration: Work closely with Recruitment, L&D, Talent, and Engagement teams to design, implement and embed innovative HR solutions and you will act as an ambassador for the People team and the Company Values at all times.
10. Culture & Engagement: Champion company values, drive engagement initiatives, and support strategies to attract and retain top talent.
11. Operational Support: Provide leadership and guidance to assigned business areas for key people policies and processes eg reward, senior-level recruitment, ensuring policy and regulatory obligations are met and signposting to other people teams as appropriate
What do you need to thrive?
12. Experience of operating as an HR Business partner working closely with aligned senior leadership teams in a fast paced and commercial environment
13. Up to date employment law knowledge, hold a degree level education or equivalent experience, and be CIPD qualified
In depth knowledge and understanding of complex ER issues
14. Experience of managing complex people initiatives across the employee lifecycle
15. Excellent stakeholder management experience
16. Experience in a fast growth environment would be desirable
17. Excellent communication skills and ability to influence senior stakeholders up to and including executive level
18. Strong data analytical skills with an attention to detail
19. Ability to produce and present HR business proposals
20. Proficiency in MS word and Powerpoint
21. Intermediate Excel skills
So, what’s in it for you?
22. Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
23. A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
24. Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
25. Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:
26. Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
27. Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
28. Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
29. Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
30. Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
31. Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
32. Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
33. Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
34. Be there for you when you need us.
35. Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.