People Hub Business Partner - Fareham, United Kingdom - Zurich Insurance

Zurich Insurance

Verified Company

Fareham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
Fareham / Swindon based with a level of flexibility (hybrid)

The opportunity:

A number of fantastic opportunities have arisen for People Hub Business Partners to join our People Hub Team.

Our people are at the heart of the Zurich business and the People Hub is the lynchpin of the Zurich UK People Team, it is the 'route in' for our colleagues when they need us, focusing on delivering exceptional customer service.

The People Hub consists of a team of highly skilled HR generalists, supporting senior leaders and their teams to deliver on our business strategy.

As a People Hub Business Partner you will be responsible for partnering with managers and senior leaders across a range of projects, enabling delivery of our business priorities and providing expert HR advice to reach the right outcome.

We are particularly looking for HR generalists with extensive experience in business partnering senior leaders and leading change projects or with experience of handling complex employee relations case work and leading policy related HR projects.

What will you be doing?

As a People Hub Business Partner you will:

Be comfortable partnering with senior business leaders to deliver HR projects, able to quickly build rapport and trust, with the courage to challenge when necessary.
Use your HR experience and employment law knowledge to coach and advise managers on key HR topics including organisation design, cultural change and engagement, consultation, TUPE and employee relations.
Be accountable for leading the people elements of projects, working with colleagues both in the People Team and across the business to enable successful project delivery and the post delivery evaluation of projects.
Demonstrate that you can coach business leaders to lead either through change or to resolve complex employee cases, with a focus on balancing both colleague engagement as well as commercial priorities.
Be skilled at juggling competing priorities and able to work at pace, adapting to changing circumstances.
Collaborate with your Hub managers and colleagues and the wider people team to ensure there is a joined up approach and a seamless service to our customers.
Review People Analytics alongside qualitative insights from working alongside the business to inform your decision making and 'join the dots' in understanding people issues.
Attend business meetings where required, making decisions, representing the People Hub and the People Team.
Take a risk based approach to managing your projects, advising business leaders on risks, dependencies and issues through the lifecycle of the project and taking the initiative to make changes to mitigate the impact of these.
Demonstrate a team ethos across the Hub and People Team.

What are we looking for?

You will be an experienced HR professional, ideally CIPD qualified, although not essential
You will have a strong commercial acumen and excellent relationship and stakeholder skills
You will have a coach to solution approach to problem solving
You will have extensive HR change experience across organisational design, cultural change and engagement, consultation, including with trade unions and TUPE, or strong employee relations experience across the range of employee relations topics from grievances and disciplinaries, settlement agreements to policy interpretation and creation.

Location & Travel:

Fareham / Swindon based with a level of flexibility
There will be a requirement to travel to other Zurich offices occasionally, depending on business requirements

What happens next?

Who we are:

At Zurich we aspire to be one of the most responsible and impactful businesses in the world and the best global insurer.

Together we're creating a brighter future for our customers, our people and our planet.

With over 55,000 employees in more than 170 countries, you'll feel the support of being part of a strong and stable company who are a long-standing player in the insurance industry.

We've made a promise to each other and every employee; to focus on sustainable impact, to care about each other's wellbeing, to use our diverse expertise to be curious and optimistic and to develop the skills needed for our future.

If you're interested in working in a dynamic and challenging environment for a company that recognises and rewards your creativity, initiatives and contributions - then Zurich could be just the place for you.

Be part of something great.

Our Culture:

At Zurich, our sense of community is strong and we're particularly passionate about diversity and inclusion, which we've won numerous awards for.

We want our people to bring the whole of themselves to work and ensure everybody is made to feel welcome, regardless of their background, beliefs or culture.

We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our customers, and so are committed to treating all of our applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective