Overview

Job Description Are you passionate about driving impactful people initiatives across a dynamic, global business? We're looking for an experienced People Business Partner to join our agile pool of HR professionals, delivering high-priority projects that shape the future of our organisation. In this role, you'll work flexibly across regions and functions to support a wide range of people-focused initiatives. From leading organisational change and delivering core cyclical people processes to supporting global projects and targeted problem-solving, you'll be at the forefront of driving strategic HR impact. This is a hybrid position working 3 days a week in the office and 2 from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting Strategic PBPs, CoEs, and business leaders to design and deliver key people initiatives and projects.
• Cyclical activities such as LEAD, Reward, Talent Management.
• Initiatives resulting from the strategic planning process.
• Organisation design/change, (strategic) workforce planning and ad-hoc problem solving.
• Advising, guiding, and supporting managers on core people processes and cyclical activity, such as L.E.A.D, reward processes, headcount management, engagement action planning, and talent and succession planning.
• Embedding global people initiatives by driving adoption, supporting managers, and ensuring alignment with specific country/function requirements.
• Designing, implementing, and managing country/function specific people initiatives, processes, and policies in alignment with global strategy/frameworks.
• Advising and managing colleague relations cases and country specific policies (in locations where no dedicated colleague relations support exists).
• Manage the governance (demand planning, capacity planning, delivery) of HR interventions - cyclical, people strategy linked and/or ad hoc - and coordinating the pool or resources effectively to ensure demand is met globally.
• Demonstrate experience of designing and delivering people initiatives in a complex environment.
• French, German or Spanish language skills would be advantageous.
• Possess a breadth of expertise that covers the full people scope of services and regional specific requirements.
• Display effective consulting skills with experience of advising, guiding and coaching managers to achieve good people outcomes.
• Be an excellent problem solver, with the ability to analyse a range of information/data to deliver insights and build creative and business focused solutions.
• Display good project management and organisational skills, with experience of building project plans and working in cross functional teams.
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Benefits

• Generous bonuses and pension scheme: Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top-up by Sage.
• 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• Enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• Access to various helpful memberships for finances, health and wellbeing

Location: United Kingdom — Newcastle; Winnersh. Hybrid work arrangement. Learn more about working at Sage: sage.com/en-gb/company/careers/working-at-sage/

About Sage

Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions. Our colleagues are the best of the best. It's why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. This role contributes to extraordinary outcomes by joining a team that knocks down barriers, continuously innovates, and helps people reach their potential. Learn more about working at Sage.