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Hr specialist (help desk team leader)

Birmingham (West Midlands)
BBC
Hr specialist
Posted: 12 August
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JOB DETAILS

Job Title: HR Specialist - Team Leader HR Help Desk

Band: D

Salary: Up to £56,500 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 1 x 8 month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Office Base is Mailbox, Birmingham. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As a HR Specialist at the BBC you’ll play a vital role in leading a team of HR Advisors responsible for providing HR advice and support to our UK employee’s and managers. You’ll be responsible for leading team performance, engagement and ensuring that resources and skills are available within the team to deliver an outstanding service across the HR Help Desk. You will need to ensure there is a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement across the team.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join our dynamic HR Help Desk team at the BBC, where we deliver top-notch advisory services to our diverse workforce. Be part of our forward-thinking People Services team, delivering exceptional query resolution and support to employees and managers. This role ensures smooth service delivery by adhering to established processes and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

Your Key Responsibilities And Impact

To lead, engage and motivate a team of HR Advisors ; allocate work and monitor workflow across the team

To ensure self and team resources are following clearly defined processes delivering answers to queries and services in line with defined SLAs

To ensure collaboration across Specialist Teams/Service Centre to deliver services and promote a culture of continuous improvement

To act as a point of escalation for complex queries and requests received by the team, ensuring they are either resolved or managed appropriately and to raise and review repeated problems or issues and set plans and resources to resolve them; or set out proposals and options to improve

To support projects being delivered by BBC People, ensuring team resources are correctly managed and work in partnership to improve the customer experience through the analysis of case load, identifying trends and undertaking improvement action

To provide intelligent reporting to support and maximise business performance

Your Skills And Experience

Experience of leading a HR generalist team preferably in a centralised / shared service centre environment

Experience of delivering HR process, initiatives and services

Prior experience of working with People systems (such as SAP)

Analytical skills and the ability to resolve logistically complex problems

Creates a sense of team spirit, encouraging shared ownership of objectives and deliverables

Leads delivery at a team level by prioritising and setting clear milestones and measures

Proven ability to successfully deliver practical results against time and performance indicators

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with a variety of contacts; strong influencing and persuading skills

Encourages others to act in line with organisational standards and frameworks

Use of process improvement tools and their application

Ability to support/ lead and deliver large scale projects across organisation(s)

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

For any general queries, please contact: bbchr@bbc.co.uk

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.


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