HR Business Partner
Baringa
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
We set out to build the world's most trusted consulting firm - creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.You'll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their businesses tick - slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.Baringa believe that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people, and creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture.Our People TeamWe have a team of dedicated and talented HR professionals, taking responsibility for all “people” aspects of the business. This includes the whole employee life cycle, from attracting new joiners, on-boarding, development throughout their career, ensuring they work in a balanced and healthy way, supporting them when needed, enabling efficient and effective processes throughout, every day, for their entire journey at Baringa.As a proudly people-first organisation, you will be at the forefront of helping us continue an incredible EVP for our people.As we continue to grow organically, we need to ensure our people processes are set up to enable the future size and shape of the business to operate effectively and efficiently, using the appropriate tools. Supporting the ever-evolving business needs and being a key player in the change management of the firm, is a core part of this role.What will you be doing?
- Be the principle HRBP for one of our largest sectors looking after the full breadth of their people agenda.
- HRBP roles at Baringa are very broad, so there will be plenty of scope to operate across a range of different activities, including Performance Management, Wellness, Employee Relations, Talent Management, Promotions, Salary reviews and People MI.
- You will develop and own the sector-specific People Plan for your client group and be accountable for ensuring progress against this, including engaging with other parts of HR, including Reward, Recruitment and L&D.
- You will need to build trusted relationships and provide hands-on support to Partner Lead(s) in helping them deliver the people elements of their business plans. You will work very closely with your Sector People Partner and Sector Lead as key stakeholders to help them enable the People elements of their sector strategy.
- You will be able to effectively support and advise people managers with a range of experience.
- You will be managing a HR Advisor supporting your sector, as well as potentially overseeing some other junior team members.
- You are likely to support some colleagues outside the UK, and you will need to be able to flex your approach to accommodate different cultures and jurisdictional requirements.
- Experience within HR, and ideally within a HRBP/HR Generalist role.
- CIPD qualification would be desirable.
- Proficient knowledge of Human Resource Management best practice.
- Employee relations experience is must - you must be able to manage a range of ER cases independently.
- Great team player, who works collaboratively to achieve goals and objectives. Comfortable being a sounding board for complex situations from others in the team.
- An excellent communicator who can help develop good HR practice with a strong stakeholder management capability, to interact effectively with the appropriate management teams as well as the wider business at Baringa.
- Comfortableness working through ambiguity and areas of the HRBP role you may not have come across before.
- Promotion is solely based on your own performance, and we give you every opportunity to progress by having four promotional reviews a year
- We're proud to put people first with wellbeing at the forefront of our culture, one example of this is that every employee receives £300 a year to put towards their wellbeing! In 2022 this was recognised in our #1 ranking in the UK's Great Place To Work 'Best Workplaces for Wellbeing'.
- All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme, which seeks to ensure that everyone has a stake in the success of the company.
- We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break - As such we have introduced the 'Re-charge' benefit meaning Baringa will offer all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
- Lastly, we recognise the importance of work-life balance and we know that the 'ideal' balance will vary from person to person and will change at different stages of our working lives. If you require flexible working, please talk to one of our Recruiters about the flexibility you may need.
We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply.