Job Description
Human Resources Business Partner, HRBP
To support our ambitious growth plans, we have a great opportunity to join our Central Services teams here at SOCOTEC. With over 2000 UK employees our Central Services functions are key to ensuring smooth and efficient operations.
Reporting directly to the UK HR Director, this role will be key to supporting growth in an expanding business area.
Partnering the senior business stakeholders and working in collaboration with the wider HR team you will create the SOCOTEC UK HR agenda for your business area and support the growth of the Learning and Development & Early Careers talent programme across the business.
Utilising the global reputation and EVP, #Let’sSOCOTEC’s & #Yougrowwegrow your strategy will underpin our core business values of:
- Commitment & Excellence
- Entrepreneurship & Innovation
- Accountability & Social Responsibility
Your challenges will include:
- Driving change and growth through an ambitious people plan & acquisition integration
- Supporting the recruitment requirement of your business area during unprecedented times for SOCOTEC UK, ensuring role attraction and employee retention is robust and effective
- Creation of an engagement and wellbeing plans for your business and optimising the current tools and frameworks available
- Driving an integrated approach between HR, Health, Safety & Environment which encourages positive communication and aligned plans & activities
About you:
We’re looking for an experienced HR professional. Passionate about people, dynamic and motivated, with ability to deliver results in a commercially ambitious business.
Influential & confident, organised & flexible, you must have a ‘problem solving’ can-do attitude.
You must also ideally have:
- Good analytical skills and be systems savvy
- Proven experience at a Business Partner level
- Ability to communicate and influence at all levels within the business
- Knowledge and understanding of Early Careers & Graduate programmes
- In return, we offer a highly competitive salary, and all the benefits of working for a large, dynamic and ambitious organisation including generous holidays, company pension and car allowance.
Based in Bretby (Burton on Trent), but flexible to travel within the UK & work from home or remotely where necessary, is a given for this role.
What’s in it for you?
As well as a competitive salary we can offer you a wide range of benefits including 25 days holiday with the opportunity to buy more, an electric car scheme (where applicable), employee recognition schemes, family friendly support, employee benefits and discounts app, employee assistance programmes, and enhanced company pension. SOCOTEC UK are proud to be Disability Confident accredited.
Why SOCOTEC?
Here at SOCOTEC UK, we have over 2,000 colleagues across our divisions delivering world-class services to our customers. We provide an unrivalled range of testing, inspection, and certification services throughout the UK, and we deliver excellence to our customers by recruiting and retaining the very best industry talent. As a Water Hygiene Technician you will play a pivotal role in providing these services.
We offer transversal career pathways as well as linear pathways, and we will support you in attaining a portfolio career in one place. Not to mention the possibility of working locally, nationally, or globally, in the office or remotely. We are committed to your personal and professional development, and you will be supported in every step of your journey with us. #YouGrowWeGrow
Think you’ve got what it takes to add value to our success? We would love to hear from you and look forward to receiving your application.
Building a safer and more sustainable world is the core mission we set out to achieve at SOCOTEC, it is at the heart of everything that we do. We are committed to acting as a key player in society, investing in innovative solutions to ensure social and environmental concerns are at the forefront of all of our business operations.