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HR Generalist x 2 - Temporary contract until 31st Dec 2025 - Bristol (hybrid) - £13-£15 per hour plus holiday pay
Robert Half is working with a global organisation in Bristol to hire two HR Generalists on a temporary contract until the end of 2025.
Role Summary
As a critical member of the HR teams, you will support the execution of the People Strategy and deliver and promote best practice and operational excellence of HR across the business. You will be responsible for providing HR support and consultation to the business in support of key strategic HR initiatives, including supporting HR Business Partners and the Senior HR Advisors in the execution of the people strategy across the talent lifecycle. You will be an advocate for the wider function and leverage HRBPs, COEs and HR Business Services teams to meet strategic HR needs of the business
Duties
- Support HRBPs and Senior HR Advisors in the execution of the overall people strategy and key HR initiatives
- Understand the business and leadership priorities, including the business strategy, P&L, and key initiatives that drive the bottom line
- Use internal networks and pull on previous HR experience, to advocate best practices and support development and execution of strategy, policy and practice, and business initiatives
- Support the growth strategy, including M&A, of the business by providing tactical HR support during bid, acquisition, and restructuring including re-deployment and RIF paperwork
- Partner with the HR team and the Business to support a wide range of projects across Talent Management, Staffing / Recruiting, Employee Relations, Compensation and Business Planning
- Support the annual performance management processes by educating managers and employees, driving analysis of completion rates and encouraging thoughtful participation in the process
- Work with the Senior HR Advisors and Employee Relations teams, supporting Managers to address employee performance issues by providing advice and counsel, data and analytics, best practices, escalating and working with Risk and Legal where appropriate
- Partner with Hiring Managers and the Talent CoE to execute the recruiting and requisition process (e.g., screening candidates, supporting Hiring Managers in the decision making process)
- Assist in the production and delivery of analytics, trends, feedback and other data to Sr. HRBP to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of the HR team / processes, or broader organisational performance
- Respond to ad-hoc queries from management and employees by answering their questions directly or referring them to the appropriate subject-matter expert (e.g., HR Business Services)
- Work with HR Business Services teams as needed to identify and resolve employee data issues. Actively leverage the HR technology in order to drive value and results
- Advocate and support the use of the full suite of HR service offerings, HRBPs, HR Business Services teams and CoEs, acting as role model and facilitator to ensure business areas adhere to, and HR deliver to agreed service offerings
Skills and experience:
- Proven track record of operating in a fast-paced HR function
- Experience working with HRBPs and other HR Functional teams with a strong understanding of different HR Function teams
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, who is comfortable communicating with HR and Management.
- Strong analytics and business acumen
- Strong commercial acumen, a client focus and ability to support the organisation to drive new business
- Project management skills
- Learning agility, adaptability, flexibility of approach, and the capability to upskill quickly
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity, and navigate through a complex, multi-faceted organisation with multiple stakeholders, and adapt to changing business priorities
- Solution oriented mindset and a creative problem solver who can operate in a sometimes resource constrained environment
- Ability to advise management teams, both virtually and locally
- Ability to work independently, prioritise workload, and proactively identify and resolve issues as they arise, with a risk and compliance mindset
- Experience working with union populations (preferred)
- Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite of applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
HR Generalist x 2 - Temporary contract until 31st Dec 2025 - Bristol (hybrid) - £13-£15 per hour plus holiday pay
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