Global People Partner - Cyber Services and Corporate Functions

Job ID:39515
Location:Birmingham : 1 Trinity Park : Bi, UK: London Moorgate  
Position Category:Human Resources
Position Type:Employee Regular

We are seeking a highly talented and motivated Global People Partner who can provide first class People Partnering support.  You will work closely with the Cyber and Corporate Functions leadership teams to contribute to the development of the business strategy, allowing you to make a real impact in developing robust people plans.  We are looking for a bright team player, who has strong strategic thinking capabilities.  You will be commercially savvy with excellent senior stakeholder management skills.  You must have strong negotiation skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work well under pressure. This is a highly proactive and collaborative role and will act as the key liaison point between People Services and our Communities of Excellence (CoE).

LRQA is a global business that’s invested in the future of your career and the planet, fusing sustainability and purpose to drive positive change.  Operating in over 160 countries, we have earned our name as worldwide experts across assessment, advisory, inspection and cybersecurity services, helping our clients build safer, fairer, more secure and sustainable businesses.  Here, you’ll get to work for one of the world’s leading global assurance providers, alongside some of the best people in the industry, whose diversity and collective intelligence drives us forward.

In our culture of excellence, it is our people that reflect who we are, together sharing a burning ambition to succeed, alongside a strong sense of purpose and mutual respect.  

You will:

• Strategic Planning: contribute to business strategy; develop local people strategy and plans, work with CoE and People Services to ensure effective execution of plans via People Service; Manage strategic People Projects, Monitor People Services performance and workforce indicators on behalf of business.
• Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) – support due diligence processes on M&A projects, and lead the planning and implementation of post-acquisition integration projects, ensuring all acquisitions are integrated into LRQA successfully.
• Organisation effectiveness: Coach and support the business on organisation design and development, ensuring it operates in a way that maximises performance and efficiency.  Review organisation capability and develop interventions to improve and adapt to changing circumstances; Ensure that change is managed and embedded well; Oversee LRQA’s EVP and issues relating to employee experience / engagement in the business, challenging ways of working and developing action plans to improve.
• Resourcing: Develop business workforce and resource plans and work with CoE to ensure delivery of high quality resource requirements in timely manner; Participate in assessment / interviews for senior leadership roles.
• Performance management: Provide input and lessons learnt to BYB (Be Your Best) process; ensure business leadership understand and deliver the BYB process effectively; create people related objectives with senior leadership teams and ensure they are cascaded through business; Facilitate calibrations for senior leadership only; Support leadership in resolution of significant performance and capability issues at senior level;
• Capability Development: Oversee the identification, development and delivery of technical competencies in line with people strategy;  Establish overall learning requirements and development needs for business (high level TNA –outcome focused) via strategic planning process and feed into CoE as part of L&D planning process.  Ensure appropriate focus and priority on learning and development in business areas. Approve overall L&D plan on behalf of business area. Commission new / changing requirements with Learning team on behalf of business and monitor to ensure delivery of outcomes.
• Reward: Provide input to Reward CoE to reflect business priorities and issues; Work with CoE to ensure effective delivery of pay review and on-going effective employee pay and benefits progression in business area; Calibrate moves, promotions and grades locally at senior levels to ensure consistency.
• Talent Management: Work with senior leadership teams to deliver Organisation Capability Review and associated talent management processes for own business extracting T&LD impacts etc.  Track and ensure delivery of leadership development and succession plans on behalf of the business for all except Senior leadership/board level roles.
• People Services: Ensure that employees use the appropriate channels for advice and services; support the delivery of People Services Operating Model by working with the wider People team to identify and remove obstacles.

• Leadership and Coaching: participate in the leadership of the business area; act in a professional advisory capacity to leadership teams, offering guidance on organisation, people matters, ensuring delivery of proactive support; provide trusted one-to-one coaching to business leaders and colleagues; Behave as a role model for change and performance improvement.

You must:

• Experienced HR professional - A graduate or appropriately qualified professional with deep experience and expertise e.g. MCIPD
• Demonstrable experience of mergers and acquisitions activity including leading People due diligence processes and implementing People integration plans
• Extensive experience of operating as a people partner within a professional services environment.
• Strong strategic thinking ability with the ability to develop robust people plans.
• Excellent skills in organisation development, organisation design and change management.
• Demonstrable experience of building sustainable relationships with multi-culture clients, influence multiple stakeholders at all levels and successfully function within a highly complex matrix organisation.  
• Extensive experience of coaching senior management on a range of people and wider organisational issues.
• Good understanding of business strategy/planning and strong commercial acumen.
• Good negotiation skills with the ability to work under pressure.
• Result oriented, assertive, flexible and enthusiastic team player with a “can do” attitude.

At LRQA our people help our clients solve some of the most difficult challenges we face in the world today from verifying food safety through to ensuring that clients’ supply chains are free from forced labour.  We work together to create a fairer, safer, more sustainable world.

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Diversity and Inclusion at LRQA:

We are on a mission to be the place where we all want to work and we are passionate about embracing different perspectives because we understand the value this brings to our business, our clients and each other. We are all about creating a safer and more sustainable future and our inclusive culture is right at the heart of our business.

Together our employees make our communities better and we want you to be part of our diverse team!

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