Overview

Job title: Junior HR Business Partner at Hyperoptic

Office location with Hybrid working: Hammersmith, 3 days per week

About The Role And The Team: The HR Business Partner role is responsible for the HR support for specific business departments. The role leads general HR activities and people project implementation, focusing on people management capability and employee lifecycle. It supplements the support the People Services Team offer by providing HR professional judgement across the range of key employee lifecycle demands at various employee and managerial levels. The role represents a proactive, solution-based asset to the business and supports building a strong People Team identity and credibility in the business.

What you will be doing

The role holder will partner with a number of infrastructure departments and bring best practices across the following areas:

• Organisation Design (including career pathways) – Advise the business on basic OD principles (role design, spans/layers) to ensure consistency and appropriate controls are in place
• HR Information System knowledge - Carry out basic people data analysis to inform decisions
• Management (law and policy) – Provide professional advice on basic employment law and local policies and apply them appropriately
• Employee movement (absence, sick leave) – Help the business take corrective actions based on movement stats and trends
• Performance Management - Support managers through the performance management cycle and assist in result analysis and actions
• Development (pathways, coaching) - Create and advise on development and career pathways within the supported departments
• Talent management (critical players, succession, development) - Support critical role analysis as part of talent management; initiate mitigating actions on succession and development plans for high potential candidates. Competent with 9-box grid and similar tools
• Employee Relations - Support and advise managers through ER processes
• Support with Interviews
• Lifecycle (Onboarding & Exit) - Support onboarding and exit processes
• Projects and improvement – Support business improvement projects on an ad-hoc basis
• Reward – Support the reward function and Infrastructure leadership with bonus and pay review
• Engagement – Support action planning from engagement surveys

What we are looking for

• HR Business Partnering or HR Advisor experience
• Communication / Stakeholder management - Manage stakeholders, ensuring timely briefings and proactive contribution. Support change management and communicate key messages
• Proactivity / CI / Change & Transformation - Provide ideas to better serve the business and support change through basic project management and organisation
• Coaching / Advisory – Support and guide People Managers using insight and professional knowledge
• Analytics and reporting – Provide accurate reports and analysis to inform and support actions
• Business awareness / Commercial acumen – Provides advice in the context of business and divisional dynamics (how we make money, KPIs, relevance); manage local budgets as necessary
• Personal qualities: Resilient, curious, organized, confident
• Previous wider HR experience including L&D, ER, HR Shared Services at same level or below

Why work for us?

We are in our customers’ corner and our vision is to be the UK's most loved and desired broadband provider, showing the way broadband is done. Awarded Broadband Provider of the Year 2023 Uswitch Telecoms Awards, as voted by 20,000 customers, plus Fair Terms Gold Award 2023. We are also proud to have Great Place to Work Certification (2022-23) and UK\'s Best Workplaces for Wellbeing (2022).

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Global remote working up to 2 weeks per year for those who can work remotely
• 25 days' paid holiday increasing to 35 with service
• Extra days off for birthday, moving home, wedding/civil partnership and volunteering
• Private medical Insurance (AXA Health)
• Life assurance up to 4x base salary
• Kings Trust partnership
• Pension scheme with contributions matched up to 4%
• Retail offers — discounts from brands
• Free Hyperoptic broadband if you reside in a Hyperoptic area
• Enhanced pay for new parents

We are committed to equal opportunities for all applicants and employees. We welcome applications from candidates from all walks of life.

What happens next?

• You apply
• We carefully review your application
• We’ll get back to you — even if it\'s a no (for now)

Job details

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Human Resources
• Industries: Telecommunications