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HR Business Partner - Central Functions

  1. Permanent - Full time
£Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
  1. Travis Perkins plc
  2. Northampton, Northamptonshire

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Monday - Friday / Hybrid Working

Bedford; Coventry; Daventry; Milton Keynes; Northampton; Rugby

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our HR Team based in Central functions. 
This role is open for a 𝐇𝐑 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫 supporting the GLT member for Technology & Data and Directors for Commercial, Health & Safety and Fleet. 

Reporting to the HR Director, you will support the design and implementation of the people's agenda creating a culture of high performance which provides exceptional services and support to our branch and store colleagues, managers and leaders. 


Hybrid working pattern - once a week at our Head Office in Northamtpon


Role Purpose

To work proactively and in partnership with the GLT and functional leaders in the Central functions, to support the identification, design and delivery of robust and value add people plans, that may include the following: 

  • Organisation Effectiveness and change, including cultural change and impact

  • Colleague Engagement and Communication 

  • Leadership Development and associated interventions 

  • People Development, including Performance Development Cycle 

  • People capability, Succession & Talent development 

  • Annual HR Cycle, Reward, Pay Review and Bonus 

  • Resourcing 


Principal Accountabilities

Business Partnering 

  • Apply HR expertise and commercial understanding to partner the Central functions leadership teams. Interpret the Functional areas’ plans, diagnose the people implications and translate that into a clear people plan

  • Coach and support business leaders on employee engagement and motivation

  • Drive the talent plan for the business to build sustainable people capability

  • Support the business leadership to build a performance culture, aligned to the Group Values 

  • Partner with HR specialist colleagues to deliver a seamless HR service 

  • Provide advice and guidance to leaders on the effective management of change and lead the associated HR actions and plans 

  • Provide leadership on internal and external resourcing to attract and retain talent in the right place with the right skills, including direct involvement in senior and critical hires as required

Resourcing 

  • Work with hiring managers to understand and respond to their people needs, managing headcount and budget to ensure numbers remain within the Annual Operating Plan

  • Partner with the Resourcing team during the recruitment process where relevant

  • Advise on compensation and undertake interviews as required for senior level hires 

Reward 

  • Support the functional leadership teams through the management of compensation reviews and prepare proposals for salary adjustments and bonuses for review at a Group level 

  • Use internal and external compensation data to analyse proposals and ensure consistency of application across the business

Performance Management 

  • Work with the teams to manage the performance management process including objective setting, development planning and calibration

Employee Relations 

  • Work in partnership with the Group ER team and managers to assess legal risks of employee relations issues and advise management as required 

Learning and Development 

  • Work in partnership with the current Apprenticeship team to ensure that appropriate training is delivered to accelerate capability development and improve performance 

  • Ensure robust successions plans are in place and identify talent and retention risks 

Employee Engagement 

  • Support the central functions in driving employee engagement through the facilitation of action / focus groups as required and the interpretation of annual survey results


Is this you?

Essential 

  • Good level of business and industry acumen 

  • Appreciation of key financial metrics 

  • Ability to analyse data to produce business insight 

  • Established HR-related experience i.e. generalist HR role 

  • Proven track record of being an effective relationship builder with strong influencing skills, across a range of diverse stakeholders 

  • Confident and clear communicator (both written and oral) and ability to influence challenging stakeholders 

  • Strong team player, works collaboratively to deliver results 

  • Sound judgement, able to read situations and apply discretion and clear thought to resolve them 

  • Experience of partnering client populations in a customer focused environment .


What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by a fabulous team, which means whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

  • Competitive performance related bonus

  • Save-as-you-earn scheme

  • Buy-as-you-earn scheme

  • Contributory pension scheme

  • Colleague discount 

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With more than five businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,500 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way! 


You be you, it makes us, us!

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