HR Business Partner

Location - Bexhill or Leicester - Hybrid

Welcome to Hastings Direct

We're a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. We've made huge investments in our data and tech capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture. We're proud of the journey we're on as a company and know that our continued success will rely on the contribution of our talented colleagues.

We provide insurance for over three million customers, but we know there's even bigger opportunity out there. The fact you're now reading this job advert means we've tempted you to find out more about #lifeatHD - we really hope you like what you see, and you'll join us to share in the success of the exciting chapter that lies ahead.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you're excited about joining us and think you have some of what we're looking for, even if you're not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.

Role overview

You'll partner with senior leaders to build, shape and deliver the people strategy. Leading on organisational people change, building capability, driving a high-performance and inclusive learning culture. Working with HR centres of Excellence as well as collaborating across functions and teams to ensure successful delivery of plans

Job details - you'll need to have demonstrable experience in:

• Develop, own and execute HR strategies that deliver medium & long-term business goals and own - you will develop and ensure delivery of capability build across functions, job families, critical skills and teams
  
• Lead on people change initiatives and business change that impacts colleagues, building plans that ensure the change is successfully delivered and drives improved efficiency and performance
  
• Partner with senior leaders to ensure plans are aligned to business outcomes including building relationships across functions to enable successful delivery and use data to identify opportunities for improvement, evaluate success of initiatives and build plans as needed to drive performance and efficiency
  
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) strategies across the organization and build into work to deliver actionable change
  
• Ensure that you (and any direct reports) are meeting customers' fair and reasonable expectations and provide fair outcomes. Question and challenge peers and managers where processes and procedures do not meet these expectations and any activity that does not place customers' interests at the heart of how we do business

Essential skills/experience:

• Strong stakeholder management, relationship building and influencing skills including credibility to confidently challenge, demonstrated at Senior Manager and Exco Level
  
• Strategic and change orientated mindset with ability to implement operationally
  
• Ability to work at pace and maintain composure when there are conflicting priorities
  
• Ability to prioritise and manage workload and influence others accordingly
  
• Data confident - able to use to drive change and performance
  
• Collaborative style that can drive and engage others to deliver

The interview process - update per role requirements

Our interview process involves the below:

• Recruiter screening call
  

• 1st stage interview with hiring leader
  

• 2nd interview with hiring leaders leader

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive - what this means to you is if you're applying for a job with us, you'll have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey. We also welcome applications through the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS).For more information on the DCS, please visit our inclusive business page on our careers website


Regrettably we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

Benefits: in addition to a competitive salary and £5k car allowance you will also receive…

Flexible working - we champion a flexible hybrid working approach - please speak to your recruiter to discuss in more detail

Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus

Physical wellbeing - as a Band 4 colleague, Hastings pay for you to receive private medical Insurance (also known as PMI). This gives you flexibility and convenience to see a specialist or consultant and allows you to decide when and where you will be seen

Financial wellbeing - as well as providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%, we are proud to provide you with an award winning package which includes - discounts, cashback, free independent mortgage advice and free access to financial wellbeing support

Mental wellbeing programme - we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, our own in-house mental health first aiders, support groups and a dedicated team to make sure we are covering your needs

There's more! - 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks, access to our health care cash back plans, dental plans, discounted health assessments, Cycle to work and tech schemes, discounted and free onsite facilities, social events throughout the year and much more ….

Join us and you'll find a different way of doing things. We call it the 4Cs. We focus on getting it right for our colleagues, customers, company and community. As one of our colleagues, you'll be helping to drive our growth, so in return, we'll give you all the support, training and development you need. Our 4Cs principles are simple: we believe by creating the right culture for our colleagues and giving them the right tools to do their job, we'll deliver good outcomes for every customer, helping us to grow the company profitably and sustainably and allowing us to invest in the communities we serve.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status. Please also note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes credit and criminal record checks.