Strategic People Business Partner - Resilience UK

Arcadis

Global design, engineering and consultancy firm delivering intelligence‑driven sustainable solutions for natural & built assets.

Lead people strategy and business partnering for Resilience UK & Ireland

4 days ago ago

Expert & Leadership (13+ years), Experienced (8-12 years)

Full Time

London, England, United Kingdom

Hybrid

Company Size

36,000 Employees

Service Specialisms

Consulting

Engineering

Architecture

Project Management

Design

Technical Services

Construction Services

Urban Planning

Sector Specialisms

Infrastructure

Water

Environment

Buildings

Transport

Utilities

Role

What you would be doing

erp standardization

people analytics

talent reviews

salary review

workforce planning

change management

Work with Employee Relations team (where available) to support management of high risk complex case work providing commercially sound advice whilst minimising impact to the business.
Support the implementation in country global approaches to learning culture, learning journeys, competency frameworks and development curriculum to promote individual and team learning.
Work with our leaders, COE leads and People Services to define people priorities that align with the experience we want to create for our people and support the design and delivery of related People function policies, processes and programs
Give feedback to People Services by suggesting improvements in the efficiency and quality of people services support.
Communicate and engage with our people on values and behaviors –develop and implement interventions and people process changes to close gap between our current and target culture from a GBA strategic perspective and in alignment with COE strategies and programs.
Line management of people business partners.
Work with the COE Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging to deliver interventions to raise awareness, encourage open and honest conversations and allow our people to be themselves at work – making the connection that Arcadis strives to be a diverse, inclusive and equitable employer.
Responsible for articulating and advocating business unit needs back to GBA People Director.
Taking a more holistic view of the business to provide feedback on People function policies, processes and programs.
Work strategically with business leaders to identify and select creative and inclusive capability, well-being, culture and talent development focused solutions to key business challenges, co-create the solutions and deploy them in a pragmatic way with the local people services team. This needs to be done in line with global Centre of Excellence (COE) direction.
Support the GBA People Director to create the People plan in support of business area strategy ensuring cross-business area consistency through collaboration COEs and enhanced the country employee proposition.
Support and champion standardization of ERP set up in line with the global approach and to implement a global way of working.
Ensure all annual People processes and programs such as GPS, talent reviews, salary review are delivered within the GBA and in collaboration with People services and COE leads.
Plan, forecast, coordinate and broker customer focused People programs and solutions that are linked to business outcomes and impact realization of the business strategy.
Facilitate discussions around change, culture and transformation
Develop for the future – assist in the execution of strategic workforce planning across the GBA and participate in selection/ promotion decisions to ensure that our people have the necessary skills and understanding to deliver the team's objective.
Act as a visible steward of health and safety and ensuring familiarity and compliance with Health and Safety regulations and guidelines.
Play a key role in the GBA People BP network and takes an active role on group wide People projects as agreed with the GBA People Director.
Build and strengthen our culture by advocating the organizational values, our purpose and challenge leaders on their accountability to ensure everyone is demonstrating and living by the right behaviors.
Work to improve the effectiveness of people metrics in their GBA, aiming to increase retention and engagement.
Ensure regular employee listening is conducted and followed-up with adequate action plans through Arcadis Your Voice.
Use analytics to bring proactive business insights to the People team, and people insight to the business to drive innovations and make data driven people decisions in partnership with People Analytics team.
Manage strategic relationships locally with internal / external providers to optimize holistic solutions.
Create a collaborative culture for resource sharing and capability building, maximising access to our internal Talent Market, through career development and knowledge-sharing programs and training to ensure clients receive best-in-class expertise and support.
Consult with the business and challenge them on strategic organizational and capability issues that contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the business and deliver an excellent employee experience on the moments that matter for the GBA workforce that is consistent across Arcadis.
Provide direction on high level change programmes, ensuring compliance with legislation and alignment to business sector objectives and strategic direction of the business area.

What you bring

power bi

data analytics

stakeholder management

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