Senior Human Resources Business Partner - North & East Route - York (12 month FTC/ Secondment)
About Network Rail
Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter.
We're continuing to build a diverse organisation which is representative of the people we serve. We want to harness the skills and expertise of our people and attract the best talent, to enable a safe and accessible railway for everyone.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Brief Description
To be the senior HR lead for the infrastructure organisation of North and East route for over 1000 colleagues. You'll play a crucial role in coaching and advising the senior leadership team across infrastructure on HR challenges. This is a fast-paced role where you'll be required to balance the everyday HR complexities with longer-term strategic vision. As well as leading a team of HR Business Partners, you'll also be leading HR projects which align to our overall route delivery.
Key Accountabilities
1. Working closely with the supported business area/s to develop, drive and implement the HR Strategy/People Plan to include; talent, succession planning and change management, in order to support the delivery of business objectives and drive a high performance culture.
2. Act as an integral member of the business leadership team, building strong relationships with senior business leaders and other relevant stakeholders. Coach, advise and challenge thinking in addition to co-development, design and execution of integrated medium to long-term people initiatives to meet current and future business needs.
3. Act as a change agent; lead, support and contribute to change programmes, driving and championing the implementation of HR solutions within the supported business area, gaining acceptance from key stakeholders.
4. Proactively manage trade union relationships, working with the Employee Relations team, appropriate HR Business Partners and managers across the business.
5. Reinforce and support the ownership of people management by the business and line managers and the HR Business Partner model.
6. Influence the centres of expertise development of strategy and policy through sharing business/functional requirements and inputting into development and execution planning.
7. Work in collaboration with Centres of Expertise, HR Shared Services, HR Direct and HR Business Partner teams to proactively identify and influence changes that improve HR service.
8. Liaise with HR Business Partners in other areas of the business in order to work collaboratively on cross business/geographical issues.
Essential
1. Demonstrates strong business/commercial approach and understanding of business needs.
2. Proven experience of working in partnership with senior business leaders in order to improve people management.
3. Passionate about customer service with ability to articulate previous achievements through business deliverables.
4. Knowledge and experience of implementing best practice HR solutions to drive a high performance culture.
5. Ability to establish professional credibility quickly.
6. Experience of coaching, influencing and building strong working relationships with senior business leaders.
7. Excellent communication skills and ability to negotiate and influence effectively with all levels of an organisation.
8. Experience of working with senior leaders to identify, develop and retain talent.
9. Excellent technical HR Knowledge - CIPD qualified or relevant experience to demonstrate level of competence.
10. Proven track record of operating in a complex working environment.
11. Broad experience of managing organisation change programmes e.g. TUPE, Organisation re-design, redundancy programmes, etc.
12. Graduate calibre.
13. Experience of working within a highly unionised environment (Essential for roles supporting Maintenance & Operations Functions).
Desired
1. MCIPD/post-graduate human resources qualification.
2. Understanding of project management principles and experience of managing complex projects to successful conclusion.
3. Experience of working within a unionised environment.
Key Leadership Capabilities
1. Influencing others
2. Creating solutions
3. Understanding others
4. Making things happen
5. Thinking flexibly
6. Customer focus
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