HR Business Partner

Are you ready to be a change agent, value creator, and connector? As a Local HR Business Partner based in Wallingford or Aberdeen, you'll work on a 6-month fixed term contract / secondment to define, project manage, and execute impactful change initiatives. You'll lead the development and implementation of strategic people plans for your business area(s), with value creation at the heart of everything you do. By leveraging Fugro's HR model, you'll ensure optimal support for business performance while enhancing the employee experience across the organisation.

Your role and responsibilities:

• Partner with business leadership to develop and deliver people plans aligned with country and regional priorities.
• Act as a trusted advisor, promoting a positive workplace culture and effective communication.
• Champion the HR model, ensuring optimal support for business performance and employee experience.
• Lead change management initiatives including transformation, restructuring, and TUPE processes.
• Collaborate with HR Centres of Excellence and other HRBPs to drive efficiency and share best practices.
• Mitigate employment risks and manage employee relations effectively.

Your background:

• Demonstrated success as a People Business Partner in a large scale, heavily matrixed, global organization.
• Significant experience of organisation design, restructuring, and other change management to include both individual and collective consultation processes.
• Highly desirable to have experience of TUPE (mobilisation and demobilisation).
• Essential to have high level of employee relations knowledge to be able to mitigate and manage risk.
• Demonstrated ability to understand business needs and anticipate future problems/risk, develop simple and effective solutions.
• Strong collaboration focus to ensure shared goals are realized.
• Proven relationship development skills with business leaders, as a trusted advisor.
• Analytical ability to collect and synthesize large quantities of data, tell the story, and formulate recommendation based on data trends and insights.
• Core knowledge of human resources principles, concepts, processes and best practises.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and initiatives exercising sound judgment, solutions orientation, and flexibility.
• Strong analytical, presentation, verbal and written communications skills