People Business Partner

Contract Type:

Regular

Belron UK Ltd Role Profile

Role: People Business Partner

Reports to: Head of Leadership Partnering

Department: People & Leadership

Location: Hybrid

Our Purpose

Belron UK Ltd, trading as Autoglass® and Laddaw®, are part of the global Belron® group world's leading vehicle glass repair and replacement group. Home to 29,000 employees, Belron operates across over 30 countries and 5 continents to ensure all our customers receive the best quality service. Our global purpose is to make a difference by solving people’s problems with real care.

Role Purpose

Our purpose in the People & Leadership Team is to enable the creation of the best place people have ever worked.

Integral to making a positive and lasting impact on our business, you will be part of a strong team of People Business Partners with a remit to drive business performance through our people agenda and strategic change.

Reporting to the Head of Leadership Partnering you will support the company during a period of substantial growth, business and cultural transformation, requiring a strong focus on leadership change management, organisational development and employee engagement.

The role requires an overarching knowledge and perspective of the business, with the ability to successfully navigate the organisation and engage and partner with multiple stakeholders to meet the needs of the business. You will be capable and confident in decision making and developments across multiple projects and initiatives.

You will help convert the People strategy into tangible plans, supporting the business to achieve its Purpose and Vision, including outstanding levels of customer service, employee engagement and shareholder value, making this the best place our people have ever worked.

A highly practical professional you will be comfortable delivering high level business planning at pace, be people oriented, have a commercially minded approach and the ability to get to the heart of an issue through listening, questioning and challenging.

With limited downward delegation opportunities, on a day to day level you will be working in a ‘stand-alone’ capacity and be easy with and willing to operate at whatever level is necessary to deliver in your role, easily switching between the operational and the strategic aspects of the role.

Key Accountabilities

Collaborative & Connected

Understanding the business context and strategy, you will be visible and connected, developing trusting and influential relationships with senior leaders, having the confidence and strength to constructively challenge their thinking and ways of working by bringing commercial and people insight.

You will act as a coach, trusted advisor, and knowledge expert, and demonstrate sound judgement across all areas of the employee life cycle. Your ability to influence a broad level of roles in our business across multiple functions will be second to none.

As the conduit between the centres of expertise across the broader People Function (L&D, Reward, Pensions, and People Support Team) and our partners in the business functions, you will collaborate on initiatives that transform our business.

You will act as a mentor to the People Support Team and work together to own your business area(s) as a team.

Leadership & Talent

You will support development and implementation of the leadership agenda that concentrates on the on-going development of leaders, continuously building capability to support them in achieving success through their people, based on a philosophy of adult to adult, human relationships.

You will contribute to succession planning and talent mapping to ensure your business area are thinking ahead and creating flexible plans, including a drive for cost effective recruitment that supports healthy retention.

Change Management & Organisational Design

Supporting transformational activity through a strong change management approach, you will ensure the way that our people change is delivered, is consistently aligned with our values, engages our people in creating and living positive change, and creates an inclusive culture where people can thrive.

You will make good use of your broad and deep business/technical knowledge and/or experience, to identify patterns and root causes so to contribute to building strategic plans and anticipate business opportunities and risks so to deliver cross-functional results.

Data Insights & Digital Working

Understanding the digital environment, you will know how to apply technology in a people context.

Uphold data integrity by working closely with your partners to ensure the data base source(s) are maintained.

You will use people analytics to create insight and measure value.

Determining areas requiring action, you will recommend proactive solutions on such areas as attrition, attendance management, performance management, employee engagement, and resourcing.

People Practices

Working with the Head of People Experience and other key stakeholders, you will work towards increasing employee engagement levels.

You will be the expert in areas such as performance management, absence management and employee relations.

Identifying areas of improvement, you will implement changes which improve efficiency and service offering as well as reducing cost.

Our Values

In Belron UK Ltd, the way in which we carry out our roles (the ‘HOW’) is equally important to what our role requires of us (the ‘WHAT’) and both directly impact on our ability to fulfil our company purpose of making a difference by solving people’s problems with real care. The ‘HOW’ is shaped by our values.

Our values underpin everything we do by shaping how we interact with our people internally, and our external partners and customers. Your role will be an exemplar of these Values:

· Caring: We care about what matters to our people, customers, partners and communities and this is reflected in our work

· Genuine: We create an environment where people can be themselves. We deliver on our promises and are honest, fair and trustworthy in everything we do.

· Collaborative: We engage each other, we support and trust each other, and we deliver as one team.

· Driven: With courage and determination we take ownership to deliver and find new ways to grow the business and ourselves in a sustainable way.

What is the scale of this role?

The People Business Partner does not have any direct reports but will partner with Senior Leader(s) with headcounts of circa 50-400 people.

Who are my key stakeholders?

Senior Leader(s)

People Support Team

People Function Specialists

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