People Partner UK & Europe

Are you a strong HRBP/ People Partner who loves to coach managers? Do you want freedom to travel and build impactful relationships?

At AVK, we are on an exciting journey of growth. Two years ago, our revenue was £66m and we were a team of 140. Last year our revenue grew 5-fold to £325m and we now have a headcount of 275, alongside 50+ live vacancies across our teams to meet growing and evolving projects.

What got us here as a business (as well as in the people team) needs to evolve to enable the pace and successful scale of growth. We are transforming into a proactive, relationship and impact-focussed, business aligned and data-driven People team with a new team structure and roles.

As one of 2 People Partners, you can own relationships and people agendas for functional teams to drive employee engagement, motivation, performance and wellbeing across teams in line with the People Strategy.

At this stage of growth and change journey, People Partners will champion positive adoption of new approaches in partnership with leaders of their business areas. Strong partnering relationships with leaders will facilitate issues being nipped in the bud early and mitigating any employment risks in line with business needs.

Reporting directly to the VP of People, you will play a key role in nurturing a culture where people can be themselves, thrive, do their best work and develop their careers across the organisation. In return, you get to grow with us and build your career experience with a senior leadership mentor in an incredibly successful business with a fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnering & Coaching People Leaders (50%)

• Close relationship building and enabling of leaders to gain buy in and nurture a team ethos in their area
• Coaching people leaders to consider their approaches and mapping out options in actions and decisions to enable positive impact and outcomes
• Using data to support plans and consideration of trends and activities
  
  

Translating People Strategy into team plans (10%)

• Lead initiatives to drive engagement, motivation and performance
• Driving consistent impact with cultural and team- appropriate approach
• Identifying opportunities to innovate and enable efficient impact from People Strategy
  
  

Championing & Embedding Change (10%)

• Advocating benefits of efficiency, scale and proactive change
• Using a ‘how can we evolve to embed the new approach?' mentality in all things
• Championing an inclusive mindset and action in teams. Challenging exclusive thinking and actions
• Creating strong foundations incorporating fairness and consistency, in conjunction with company guidelines
  
  

Performance Management (15%)

• Supporting delivery and efficiency focus
• Enabling impactful goal setting and management
  
  

Risk & Issue Management (15%)

• Proactively managing risk and adopting pre-emptive approach wherever possible
• Advising and actively supporting managers where issues require formal approaches- absence management, disciplinary, grievance etc
  
  

Additional Responsibilities:

• Employee Progression Framework: Embedding this with leaders and employees
• Facilitating Manager Employment Law Awareness sessions: In partnership with L&D
  
  
  

Requirements

• Impact Focussed: Owns relationships, projects and goals and delivers positive results to agreed timelines
• Relationship Builder: Very grounded and human in approach. Warm, fascinated by people, curious and humble
• Collaborative Team worker: A collaborative mindset, working closely with the other peer People Partner, department leaders and managers, and other stakeholders.
• Critical Thinker: Discernment to establish issues and underlying causes and to navigate process and employ relevant approaches to address them
• Organised: Ability to manage priorities, stakeholder needs and wider projects within parameters of your travel and working pattern; actively maintaining boundaries
• Data Hungry: Explores, maps trends and uses data to inform discussions, decisions and planning
• Tech Literate: Confident User of HRIS (Bob ideally) and Office Suite to communicate and share ideas and updates (we use MS Office)
  
  
  

Benefits

• Salary of up to £70k
• Private Health Insurance
• Performance Bonus
• 25 days annual leave + bank hols
• Birthday Off
• Pension Plan
• Hybrid working / Flexible working
  
  

AVK|SEG does not discriminate on the race, colour, religion, sex, age, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. We will endeavour to respond to all applicants however due to the volume of responses, we can only guarantee that candidates who have been shortlisted will be contacted.