Strategic People Business Partner - Abingdon, United Kingdom - Investing in Women

Investing in Women

Verified Company

Abingdon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world's energy? If so, read on.

We are a leading organization in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for ground breaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations.

In pursuit of our mission, we embrace core values:
Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

As an employee, you will benefit from:

Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
Corporate bonus scheme of up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
Flexible working options including familyfriendly policies.
Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
Emergency paid leave, Generous annual leave allowance (30.5 days) increased with length of service.
Wide range of career development opportunities.
A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.

Role Overview:

As a Strategic People Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Directorate Leadership Team in developing department/programme/business unit people plans aligned with the business priorities and mission.

You will work closely with the Director of People and People colleagues in L&D, TA, and Pay & Reward, ensuring current and future capability requirements are met.

Your responsibilities will also include acting as the strategic People lead for assigned departments/programmes/business units, managing and implementing strategic projects covering resourcing, employee engagement, organisational design, and talent development.

Additional Responsibilities:

Contributing to developing the organisational strategy by ensuring that the people's agenda is integrated into it, demonstrating a deep understanding of organisation strategy and direction.
Working collaboratively with Trades Union colleagues and employee representative groups, influencing as appropriate.
Championing diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the role.
Deputising for senior colleagues as necessary.
Researching, benchmarking, piloting, implementing, evaluating, and reviewing People policies, as required.

Delivering important business intelligence to colleagues in the People Department to inform service improvements, working collaboratively to enable the development and implementation of those improvements.

Potentially managing a departmental People and L&D budget.

Qualifications:

Essential Requirements:

Educated to degree level or demonstrable equivalent experience.
CIPD Qualified to L7 (Diploma).
Extensive experience in business partnering at a strategic level in a complex environment.
Experience of advising on EDI, Pay and Reward, OD&D, ER and L&D.
Excellent people skills, including coaching and developing others.
Experience in developing strategic priorities and using those priorities to enable culture change.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
Able to challenge robustly.
Creative in finding solutions to support the organisation to achieve its goals.
Highly motivated and collaborative.