HR People Partner - 12-month FTC

Company Description

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands and Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

Join our HR team and provide comprehensive, expert, and hands-on HR support to key stakeholders within our capabilities and functions. Applying expertise and knowledge via coaching and advice, this 12-month FTC role will foster a high-performance culture and enable our people agenda. Reporting into a Senior People Partner, this role will also work alongside colleagues in our HR People Partnering team (locally and globally), HR Operations team and PAs Centres of Excellence (CoE).

• Partner with your business areas to develop and implement their people agenda, ensuring alignment to the global people strategy and drawing on expertise from PAs HR CoEs.
• Enable a high-performance culture through strong performance management and talent development, drawing on expertise from PAs CoEs.
• Work alongside PAs ER and Policy Specialist on ER cases, ensuring the right interventions are put in place.
• Work with and coach leads and line managers to develop and optimise people management capability, supported by PAs CoEs.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our business partnering processes and policies.
• Coach Leads and line managers and their people to ensure effective delivery of our cyclical processes including Mid, YE and promotion processes.
• Work alongside colleagues from across the HR community and contribute to strategic and operational HR projects (local, national, and global).
• Utilise people data to provide insights, drive best practice, and enable innovative solutions.
• Champion PAs values and the behaviours we expect of each other.

Qualifications

• A passion and commitment to providing the highest quality service to your client areas in a collaborative manner.
• Consistently collaborates with and supports HR colleagues to provide an exceptional service to our clients.
• Commercially astute, you consider the financial and legal impact /risk of all decisions.
• Well-networked with a strong understanding of the organisation structure, its intersections, and relationships.
• You are able to challenge and influence where necessary to ensure the right decisions are made.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills which enable you to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• The ability to analyse a complex problem through an evidence-based approach, producing compelling insights and recommendations to a client problem. You understand when it is appropriate to escalate a problem and seek additional advice.
• Strong prioritisation skills, balancing constant reactive demands with a proactive approach.
• Ideally, you will have personal experience and understanding of working with clients within consultancy and/or professional services environment.
• CIPD qualified, strong working knowledge of HR best practice and UK employment law.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) 
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]

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