HR Partner

Job Title: HR Partner Reports to: People Partner Lead Location: London - Heathrow Contract: Permanent

Vanderlande is the global market leader in automation systems and solutions for customers within the Airports, Parcel & Warehousing sectors striving to improve the competitiveness of our customers through value added logistic process automation. If you are passionate about creating a great employee experience, People Services is the place for you! This role is central to maintaining a cohesive and positive working environment within the HR team, so being hands on and ready to help with whatever comes up is essential. This is a great opportunity for any individual who wants to make a direct impact on people and culture.

Role Responsibilities

The HR Partner is part of the People Services Organisation and provides support across a wide range of tactical HR processes and practices that enable the company to meet its strategic and operational goals. The HR Partner covers topics and questions that couldn't be covered by Manager Self Service or through the HR Service Agents (tier 1) and often focus on individual cases. As a strong partner to our Centre of Excellence (COE) teams and our HR Business Partners this role will ensure the successful delivery and execution of our HR priorities and programs at a local level.

• Understand the profile of the business area, the strategic goals and develop, agree on and deliver an operationally aligned People Plan, in conjunction with our corporate and local HR strategy, to support business goals.
• Partner with senior/management teams to provide pragmatic and viable solutions, bringing the people agenda to life as a highly credible and trusted generalist.
• Provide coaching & guidance to managers on best practice with regard to a wide variety of employee related matters.
• Lead initiatives and programmes that deliver positive employee engagement, including leadership of the Glint engagement survey and action planning to continually build on strengths and opportunity areas.
• Lead the development of UK wide HR policies, processes, and values that are both compliant with legislation and match best practice, including statutory compliance programmes such as Gender Pay reporting, Modern Slavery statement requirements and IR35 compliance.
• Support ad hoc projects and activities related to People Services.
• Act as the subject matter expert on all employee relations issues, including capability, absence management, health and redundancy, ensuring successful and timely resolution and mitigation of risk.
• Coach managers to build capability, encouraging them to think through issues and giving them confidence and knowledge to handle difficult and sensitive matters while ensuring they fully understand the risks/implications.
• Collaborate with the People Services lead to understand and implement processes, focusing on employee experience and continuous improvement of employee life events.
• Identify service issues, proactively propose improvements and lead or support implementation of changes.
• Collaborate with our global team on rolling out and sequencing of all global led HR initiatives, tailoring and prioritising programmes as appropriate.
• Analyse and assess risks associated with individual programmes, including impacts on employees, teams and wider business.
• Deliver locally on global HR processes across the full employee life cycle, covering Performance Management, Career Development and Succession Planning.
• Participate in one or more Capability Expert Communities to bring in the People Services perspective into the maintenance and improvement of HR capabilities.
• Drive continuous improvement: design, deliver and improve local key people initiatives and processes to ensure best class service.

Role Qualification and Skills

• Passionate about providing a proactive and value add HR service.
• Experience with Union relationships and TUPE (well received).
• Strong project management and demonstrable experience in leading significant projects and policy roll outs.
• Flexible self starter with strong initiative, excellent organisational and multitasking skills; capable of working autonomously and prioritising workload.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation, policies & procedures and best practices; ideally CIPD qualified (full/part).
• Proven ability to work with stakeholders at all levels, including in a matrix organisation with central functions and delivery partners.
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate across diverse groups and levels.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in HR.
• Excellent communication, presentation, coaching and facilitation skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of MS Outlook, Excel and Word; Workday experience useful but not essential.

What we offer

• 28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
• Bupa Medical Cover
• YuLife - Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, health promotion and daily quests to earn Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
• Challenging work environment with many opportunities for career progression
• Cycle to work scheme
• Yellow Nest salary exchange scheme that reduces childcare costs for parents and employers
• Pension with Aviva
• Access to Achievers, an award winning recognition platform that enables points to be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts

Diversity & Inclusion

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore reasonable adjustments that can be made to support your application.