Strategic People Business Partner - Resilience UK

Overview

Drive cultural and people strategy as senior HR partner for Resilience UK & Ireland

Key Responsibilities

• erp standardization
• people analytics
• workforce planning
• talent reviews
• change management
• employee listening

Tasks

-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. -Provide direction on high level change programmes, ensuring compliance with legislation and alignment to business sector objectives and strategic direction of the business area. · -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.

Requirements

• power bi
• microsoft office
• financial acumen
• stakeholder management
• hr analytics
• c1 english

What You Bring

-Experience in working in a matrixed organization in an international setting. As well as experience in a similar role where you need to balance global/local needs -Consulting agility, with experience in independently using Microsoft programs (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, OneDrive, Power BI) as well as using data analytics to align HR solutions with business imperatives and ability to work in an agile way. Business Fluency with financial acumen and operations knowledge, with a focus on business outcomes. -The ability to make quick, sound decisions based on knowledge and judgment. -Having a broad knowledge of all major components of People related functions, employee/labor relations, management of change, diversity and Inclusion, compensation, benefits and Talent development. -A progressive, non-bureaucratic approach with experience in the latest P&C trends but in practical terms – not just a theory -High level communication skills (English proficiency at least C1, strong consulting, coaching and presentation skills, with the ability to move between listening to, guiding and coaching others at all levels -An understanding and appreciation of the marketing, communication and presentation skills required to facilitate projects and initiatives. -Stakeholder management and the maturity to deal with senior business leaders. This includes being confident in hearing strong leadership opinions, ability to influence to better outcomes and at times even challenging decisions made by leadership

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About Arcadis

-Evolved into a global design, engineering and consultancy powerhouse. -Excels in major infrastructure, water management, urban building, transport and industrial manufacturing projects worldwide. -Recent standout assignments include flood defences in New York, the Sydney Metro, and sustainable legacy planning for the Paris Olympics. -Structured around core business areas—Places, Mobility, Resilience and Intelligence—backed by digital centres of excellence. -Notable for blending data-driven tools with traditional consulting to optimise asset lifecycles and smart infrastructure.

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