HR Business Partner (FTC)

HR Business Partner

If you are someone interested in equipping leaders thriving in this new world of work and want to help us creating the conditions for our people to do their best work, and flourish in an entrepreneurial, ambitious and fast paced culture, read on.

The role

The Uniphar Pharma HR Business Partner (11 month FTC) will be a key member of this division's growth, providing strategic support to the business, with areas of focus including culture and engagement, organizational design, diversity and inclusion, talent management and coaching. You will deliver the HR priorities/strategy across the client groups and provide a best-in-class employee experience, in partnership with the HR Centres of Excellence (CoEs) and the business leaders. You will be a future focused business partner, working with leaders through their growth plans, acquisitions plan and change management activities.

This role will support multiple locations and includes a requirement to work with leaders across UK, Ireland and EMEA. This role may require travel across any of the legal entities within the division. Additionally, our teams will have access to privileged information in which we expect to lead by example with regards to professionalism and data protection.

Key Responsibilities / Outcomes

• With the broader HR team, bring Uniphar on a journey of change, helping to onboard the business to the new HR ways of working and building a one HR mindset.

• Lead on Uniphar Core Values and drive engagement activities across business units, ensuring values are embedded.

• Upskill and/or continuously improve on knowledge related to all location-based employment legislation and best practice across UK, Ireland, and other locations as they arise.

• Lead on HR skills for managers, providing training and workshops on key HR knowledge and skills for managers including performance management, disciplinary, grievance, mediation etc.

• Lead on the delivery of HR strategy across your business units, providing input and guidance on the strategy through collaboration and insights on your business units' needs.

• Provide recommendations, market comparisons and improvement plans based on reporting and analysis provided by the HR Business Support Specialists.

• Coach and mentor HR Business Support specialists.

• Support the management teams with coaching, building a strong community of leaders and forging strong sustainable relationships that contributes a positive, measurable impact to the success of the business.

• Provide leadership on HR projects such as absence management, performance management, employee retention etc.

• Promote positive engagement with our employees and strong culture awareness.

• Take leadership and ownership of end-to-end employee relations issues across your business units in UK and Ireland, including all internal and external, ACAS and WRC, documentation, mediation etc. Ensure all documentation is stored securely and in chronological order.

• Support the development of HR policies and practices that are progressive in nature and will ensure we attract, develop, and retain current and future staff.

• Take ownership on Gender Pay Gap reporting and all other Government mandated reporting, including analysis, recommendations, and data integrity.

• Implement and drive all compensation and benefits relation initiatives.

• Partner with the HR Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to create a seamless employee experience.

• As needed, provide support to new acquisitions due diligence and integration.

• Work closely with peers to build alignment within HR cross divisionally.

• Have a strong understanding and ability to use and navigate through Workday, including knowing how to use reporting, navigation, and ability to support business stakeholders.

• Be a change agent and lead transformational change.

• Any other task reasonably requested by HR Manager, Director, or business stakeholders.

Key Skills & Experiences

• Degree or Masters in HR or Business-related subject.

• 3+ years' experience in a HRBP or COE role.

• Confidence and impact to coach leaders with complex issues as well as support them through change.

• Experience developing pragmatic solutions and interventions that have a positive organisational impact.

• Analytical skills

• Attention to detail, the utmost discretion when working with confidential data, and dedication to customer service

• Focused on business outcomes and being commercially driven

• Ability to work in an agile way. Comfortable with ambiguity. Not afraid to forge a path.

• Digital acumen, strong knowledge of HR systems and processes

• Excellent relationship building and communication skills, with the ability to move between listening to, guiding and coaching others.

• Common sense: always spots opportunities to simplify and improve processes to drive better results.

How we'd like to work together

The location is flexible, and the preference will depend on where the client group is based, in order to facilitate regular face to face interactions. It's important to achieve the right balance between face-to-face interactions with virtual working over the long term. Moreover, there's a flexibility required, to interact with the wider team; in return you will get to work with an organisation that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it through our hybrid working philosophy.