Employer: NFU Mutual
Location: Stratford-upon-Avon
Salary: Up to £50,000 + 17.5% annual bonus + benefits package
Closing date: 23 Dec 2024
HR Consultant
* Support HR Business Partnering team
* Gain variety working across all business areas
* Hybrid - Up to 80% homeworking available and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon
About the role
We're making some exciting changes to the HR Division at NFU Mutual. With future-proofed capabilities, technology-enabled systems, high engagement, and improved career paths high on the agenda, this is a great time to join the team. This brand-new HR Consultant role will own and oversee our proposition, ensuring we're firmly future-focused and meeting the needs of the business.
In this role, you'll support Strategic HR Business Partners and HR Business Partners across all business areas, with the planning and execution of various HR projects and initiatives, such as talent management, engagement, learning needs analysis, and organisational development.
You'll work closely with the business to deliver tailored HR advice, providing insights and analysis that drive impactful change.
You will support the business through change management activities, aligning with the People Change Framework to ensure consistency and you'll support regular HR processes like pay reviews, talent forums, and performance assessments. Additionally, you'll also provide Learning & Development consultancy services, conducting assessments to identify skill gaps and opportunities for growth.
With a focus on continuous improvement and process excellence, you'll play a key role in reviewing and determining our approaches to undertaking HR activities to ensure they are highly effective. You will also get involved in tracking project progress, reporting on KPIs, and ensuring that HR initiatives align with the company's overall goals.
This role is based in our Tiddington Head Office, just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon. However, we understand how important a positive work-life balance is, so to help you give your best, we offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home.
About you
You're a well-rounded HR professional with a background across various HR disciplines able to manage multiple priorities. Possessing excellent communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to deliver effective outcomes through a consultative approach you're commercially minded and understand business operations and financial principles, ensuring HR strategies are aligned with business goals.
In addition, you must also demonstrate:
* Knowledge of project management principles and experience in supporting HR projects.
* Ability to effectively interpret and analyse data.
* Experience with HR compliance and processes in areas including reward, engagement, learning and development, and talent management.
* Understanding and application of learning needs analysis.
* Understanding and application of organisation design and development.
* Ability to identify and resolve problems.
Desirable: CIPD qualified or working towards or equivalent relevant professional qualification.
Benefits and Rewards
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:
* Salary to £50,000
* Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
* Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
* 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
* A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
* Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
* £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
* Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
* Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
* Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
* Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
* Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
* Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.
Working at NFU Mutual
We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being "a great place to work" and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.
We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.
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Stratford-upon-Avon
Tiddington Road
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
CV37 7BJ
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