Job reference number 299320
HR Business Partner - Wales - Hybrid Working
Competitive salary
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering of 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 27.5 days after 10 years service
Full time
Permanent
Cardiff Mail Centre, Cardiff, CF11 8TA
A new position has arisen for an experienced HRBP to join the team operating within the Wales region of Royal Mail. It’s a big business in its own right with bags of potential for an ambitious HR professional to make a difference.
About the role
In this role you support senior leaders in building the capability of the operation to achieve and deliver short term business performance targets and the longer-term strategy.
You will also:
- Enable and support ‘line owned’ performance to allow them to deliver high performance
- Give Ops Senior Team expert advice and guidance, utilising robust management information and high-quality reporting and planning to inform decision-making and action.
- Provide informed HR consulting to stakeholders to ensure that business and people plans, and priorities are aligned.
- Ensure strong controls in the functional area and promote operational compliance with functionally created standards and processes to support operational effectiveness and compliance
- Represent the function to ensure the minimum standards and services are provided as agreed, providing the link between the region and the function on any issues, changes and performance improvement required
- Build capability relevant to your functional area within the region, particularly amongst the Ops Senior Team
- Work with the Ops Senior Team to promote a culture that delivers on promises and through this supports a more trusting workplace with improved relationships at all levels.
- Work with the business to lead and/or support on people change and management projects while proactively engaging with trade unions to mitigate risk and diffuse potential conflict particularly around the deployment of change activities as part of transformation.
- Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure the appropriate governance and deployment of cyclical people processes including performance conversations, talent, and Trust.
- Advocate and sponsor the use of the full suite of HR service offerings, acting as a customer voice, role model and facilitator to ensure business adherence to, and delivery of the agreed service model while also managing risks, identifying areas of improvement and service deployment.
This is a hybrid working role with the expectation that you will be in office for three days per week. The location of the office can be your closest RM Operations building.
About You
You will be CIPD qualified with experience as a HRBP in an operational environment.
You will also:
- Demonstrate evidence of excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to quickly establish relationships and influence people at all levels of an organisation
- Have experience of operating in a highly unionised environment
- Show the ability to juggle multiple priorities across a wide span and spectrum of accountabilities
- Will thrive in a complex and demanding environment and have the ability to handle conflict situations effectively
- Possess the confidence and ability to effectively challenge senior leaders and peers
- Ability to cope with ambiguity and to champion change
- Have experience of working as a HR professional in a medium to large organisation
- Have experience of working with a shared services HR function.
Extra Benefits
- Generous holiday entitlement of 25 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with years completed service
- Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates
- RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
- Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
- Supportive and generous company sick pay
- Access to our Feeling First Class service, providing both mental and physical wellbeing support
- Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
- Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
- Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
- Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
- Free stamps at Christmas
- Available only to perm employees
Your career in safe hands
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.
We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.
An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.
Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews on OR w/c 11th of September.
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
Closing Date: Friday 10th of September. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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