People Culture Business Partner - Technology - 12 month FTC
Our Future Health, United Kingdom
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced People and Culture Business Partner to join our growing people team. You will ideally already be operating as a confident people partner with experience in partnering with Technology and Engineering functions. You'll be passionate about culture amp; engagement, and ready to drive commercially aligned people strategies and results across the Technology and Engineering teams you will be supporting.
The priorities of this role may shift, so flexibility to work within several areas, and pivot to work on new strategies quickly is very important. This is a full 360 people position, fundamental in ensuring the business structure and culture is set up for success and aligned to our organisational OKR’s. You will work closely with the wider People team on projects that aim to drive employee engagement and manage change.
Our Future Health will be the UK’s largest ever health research programme, bringing people together to develop new ways to detect, prevent and treat diseases. We are a charity, supported by the UK Government, in partnership with charities and industry. We work closely with the NHS and with public authorities across all nations and regions of the UK.
Our plan is to bring together 5 million volunteers from right across the UK who will be asked to contribute information to help build one of the most detailed pictures we have ever had of people’s health. Researchers will be able to use this information to make new discoveries about human health and diseases. So future generations can live in good health for longer.
What you'll be doing:
As a fast-scaling organisation it’s essential that you are not afraid to get stuck in, gather relevant information, and create a point of view, but be flexible enough to work within several areas and handle changes in direction or new priorities. Your key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:
- Partnering with the Technology and Engineering leaders to develop and embed the people strategy and strengthen our culture, aligned to organisation needs and goals.
- Working with those teams you partner with to define and design ways of working.
- Creating a clear leadership and talent strategy plan of where the team need to get to, what support they need as a collective and providing key coaching to line managers.
- Identifying talent and developing plans to both retain, develop, and attract the talent which will drive performance, culture, and productivity.
- Developing a clear workforce plan - supporting the operational strategy, working collaboratively with the Talent Acquisition team and the Finance team as well as across the people team to come up with plans to ensure we have the right skills in the right places at the right time.
- Being an active member of the People and Culture team, working across the People function to develop relationships and improve ways of working - proactively sharing knowledge and leading on functional projects.
- Ensuring that engagement and communication is front of mind for the line managers you support and that they are connected with the teams they lead. Enabling them to continually focus on setting the vision/strategy and communicating progress and priorities to ensure people know where we are heading, why we are heading there and the value that they bring.
- Taking a proactive approach to employee relations, reviewing data and spotting any employee relations trends, recommending solutions, and coaching line managers to take any actions you feel are the right steps to take and tackling problems before they grow.
- Guiding line managers in relation to HR policies and procedures (such as performance improvement, grievances, absence management etc), coaching them through the process and ensuring they have a good understanding of the legal requirements. Our role with ER can be very hands-on, writing scripts, creating outcome letters, etc. to support cases through to completion.
Requirements
To succeed, you will have some of the following skills and experience:
- Previous experience and extensive knowledge of Tech market and tech functions.
- Prior experience working in a fast-paced HR environment.
- Excellent hands-on experience in using MS Office, databases and HRIS systems.
- Ability to work independently with the willingness to take responsibility for outcomes, but also the ability to judge when to ask for guidance.
- Ability to work collaboratively with people, demonstrating flexibility in style and approach to changing demands.
- Commercially minded with strong business acumen.
- A clear understanding of Human Resources practices, employee relations and legal requirements.
- Discretion, sensitivity, and confidentiality. Demonstrated ability to listen, analyse and inform appropr