HR Business Partner

MMP Consultancy are looking to recruit an experienced HR Business Partner based in Kent.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as a trusted partner to senior leadership in order to provide insight and advice on people management strategies aligned with business goals and aspirations.
• Providing expert professional advice and guidance across the full breadth of the generalist HR remit ensuring that all of our employment practices align with and model our culture, values, policies and best practice.
• Analyse HR trends, workforce data and business need to proactively recommend HR solutions.
• Partner leaders to develop their capability to handle a wide range of people management challenges effectively and provide a high-quality service to support wide ranging employee relations issues.
• Support change management initiatives to ensure smooth transitions during periods of organisational transformation.
• Keep professionally up to date in terms of legislation, trends and best practice to ensure that the client is provided with timely and pro-active advice that ensures we comply with legal requirements across all aspects of people employment and contribute to strategy, policy and practice.
• Support leadership in identifying talent gaps and creating plans to address workforce planning and succession needs, including retention strategies.
• Continuously review HR processes and systems to ensure they are efficient, effective and aligned with the business needs, monitoring market trends to inform decisions.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong relationship building and communication skills to influence at all levels enabling robust internal partnerships.
• Analytically inquisitive with experience of using HR data for decision making.
• Strong focus on diversity, inclusion and employee wellbeing.
• Knowledge of current employment law, best practice and legislation
• Strong problem-solving skills to handle workplace conflict, grievances and disciplinary action.
• Ability to coach leaders on successful employee engagement and team dynamics
• Experience of supporting and advising on organisational transformation and change including TUPE and restructures.
• Ability to translate complex information in to plan English
• Competent at managing own learning and development and modelling this for others ensuring advice represents current thinking, trends and best practice.
• Proficient in standard Microsoft packages and confident in learning and maximising the use of in-house databases and systems.