HR Business Partner

About Howden

Howden is a global insurance group with employee ownership at its heart. We are united by a shared passion and a no limits mindset. Our team of 24,000 employees spans 56 countries, and we attract people who value work life balance, career progression, sustainability and volunteering.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner responsible for delivering commercially aligned HR solutions for our Howden UK&I Retail business. The role is in a transformational environment working with divisional business leaders.

The successful incumbent will embed themselves within the business, understand requirements, and partner with leaders to provide HR solutions that enable the business to deliver its plans.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the Senior HR Partner to implement people initiatives and partner with leaders across Howden UK&I Retail translating business strategy into an aligned and integrated People Plan.
• Gather detailed understanding of divisions' people, aspirations, challenges, and talent needs (internal and external) for present and future.
• Contribute to the implementation of recruitment, performance, leadership planning, talent management and organisation development to deliver strong impact of critical HR processes.
• Lead the business through people elements of transformational change (including M&A) ensuring a consistent and robust approach for efficiency and engagement.
• Collaborate across the total HR function to enable development of relevant HR initiatives and lead delivery across all areas of HR back into the business, delivering a seamless experience for employees and managers.
• Collaborate with Centres of Expertise (COEs) to support the development and delivery of solutions tailored to business needs, as guided by the Senior HR Business Partner.
• Assist with the delivery of the annual compensation process and an approach to reward that ensures a robust and transparent process.
• Build strong and positive relationships with team members and customers within the organisation.
• Collect and analyse data through MI sources to convert this into insights to inform proposals and influence people matters to solve business challenges or opportunities.
• Apply external market changes, challenges, and opportunities and translate lessons learned internally.
• Travel weekly to core operational sites.

Skills & Experience

• Experience partnering with high volume business areas with speed and accuracy.
• Experience as a Business Partner with a proven understanding of all HR subject areas.
• Experience supporting leaders and partnering in a complex business, working across cultures and building and managing relationships virtually.
• Translate strategic people requirements and/or regional/global context into language with which the wider business can engage.
• Hands on HR practitioner.
• Work on both strategic and operational HR matters and develop effective relationships with collaborators, customers, partners, and team members.
• Confident with data and systems thinking.
• Approachable and innovative, proactively streamline and simplify processes and problem solve using technology based solutions to drive automation and scalability.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity and navigating solutions in a fast paced, unpredictable environment with a varied workload.
• Challenge confidently whilst maintaining credible relationships and handling a range of difficult conversations and situations.

We Offer

We provide a career that you define and value diversity. We support each other in everyday moments and bigger challenges. We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations. This includes flexible hours or hybrid working where possible. If you are excited by this role, let us know if you need any adjustments.