Returner Position: HR Business Partner

If you are a talented, experienced HR professional looking to return to work and re-establish your career after a career breakoff 18 months or more, this is a great opportunity.

The Returnship

Colt Technology Services are offering a series of positions aimed at supporting professionals returning to the workplace after a break of 18 months or more.

This HR Business Partner role is designed to offer a rewarding, challenging experience. It offers the successful candidate an opportunity to add real value to the business, rebuild workplace confidence in a supportive environment and provide a great platform to relaunch your career.

The Company

Colt provides world-class network and voice connectivity to businesses across the world. They’ve been specialists in their field for over two decades – and are recognised as an innovator and pioneer in Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV).

They are currently looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to cover maternity leave for 13 months.

Role Overview

This role provides strategic partnering to VPs, Directors and their Senior Management Teams. Acts as an account manager for the HR Service to the business and pro-actively works with the HRBP Directors in order to develop a sub functional-specific approach to the people agenda driven from business HR strategy and closely supporting the overall aim of the function(s).

HR Business Partnering

Provide advice, guidance, direction, and consultative services to the functional leaders on people-related matters. Partner with People Leaders within a department or function providing coaching, support and advice on people issues and leadership team effectiveness
Understand the business environment (e.g. competitor analysis, benchmarking, trends) and emerging strategies in the wider business environment and provide key business and functional insights to the HR centres of excellence in the development and execution of new HR programmes
Influence and execute Colt People Strategy ensuring functions’ business goals can be achieved through robust, commercial and effective people plans
Actively drive and model a high performance culture
Translate HR strategy into practical and effective HR solutions, where required, in conjunction with the centres of excellence
Develop implementation plans to support change management initiatives and serve as a change agent for your function
Serve as a partner to functional leaders to develop, manage and execute on reorganisation projects (restructuring, outsourcing, etc.) working closely with business stakeholders, local HR and finance to ensure the plan is on track and appropriately accounted for in Total Labour Cost and Total Labour Resource reporting as well as the restructuring provisions
Act as a coach, challenger and influencer to functional leaders, and drive increased manager effectiveness
Responsible for executing on the annual performance management cycle, talent management and succession planning initiatives, in conjunction with the HR centres of excellence
Manage annual HR processes in partnership with the centres of excellence
Lead and project manage the development and implementation of organisational effectiveness and change management initiatives in the function
Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention
Work with functional leaders to analyse data resulting from the employee engagement survey and develop and implement action plans to address opportunities
Acts as an escalation point for HR Country Teams for matters relating to the function
Project manage restructuring and support VPs and SMTs through change management ensuring organisation effectiveness. Work in partnership with Employee Relations to deliver change, liaising with works councils (EWC and NWC)

Skills & Experience

Requires broad experience across a wide range of HR disciplines, preferably in an international environment
Proven record of strategic influencing, a credible activist
Displays solid judgement
Challenges the business – Robust, resilient, approachable and diplomatic with the confidence to deal with senior leaders
Strong business acumen
Deals efficiently with complexity
Prioritises effectively – strong project management skills
Manages conflict
Deals effectively with complexity, conflict and ambiguity
Has personal gravitas and solid judgement
Leads by example and acts as a role model to others
Has an agile working style and with a strong change-management mindset
Data-driven, analytical, commercial in approach
5+ years broad, global HR experience preferred

Terms

This role is part of the Returners@Colt Programme and is seeking applications from those with an HR background who have had a career break of 18 months or more.

The role is a for a fixed term contract period of 13 months with training and development offered. The role is remote until Jan 2022 and then can be done remotely or on a hybrid basis (the office is based in Shoreditch, close to Old Street tube). The role is seeking full-time hours with a competitive salary on offer (£50-£60k).

Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. They offer skill development, learning pathways and accreditation to help their people perform at their best, regardless of role and location.

In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognises the importance of a work life balance.

Some benefit examples are:

Flexible working and relaxed dress code
Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities
Access to Online-learning Platform
Business mentoring
Option of parking slots in the Colt Campus
Lunch vouchers

Find out more about Returners@Colt here.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply asap.

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