HRBP - Interim

Interim HR Business Partner – initially 6 months, with option to cover 12 months

Warwick 2/3 days a week – Hybrid working

Are you looking for your next challenge? Baxi is a leading provider of environmentally friendly and efficient heating solutions across a range of leading domestic and commercial brands. We have over 150 years of experience, pride ourselves on our values and strive for earning lifetime loyalty with our customers.

An exciting vacancy has arisen within our HR Team for a HR Business Partner to join the team. Reporting directly to the HR Director, the main purpose of this role is to business partner with the Sales and Service teams. Act as member of the leadership team within the Warwick site, adhering to and exemplifying high ethical standards.

As a HR Business Partner, you will:

• Coach, guide and empower managers in the business in all aspects of people management to drive a high-performance culture and people management capability.
• Develop local people plans and drive delivery.
• Leads on the overall business change management, ensuring excellent engagement with our employees to improve overall people processes and our reputation as an employer of choice.
• Leads all talent management processes identifying high potentials and linking these to succession plans. Working with the Head of L&D to ensure a healthy talent pipeline including development and improvements in our overall diversity.
• Works in partnership with people leaders to review organisational design and structure as required, to ensure they are effective, and that employees are suitably qualified/developed to meet the changing needs of the business/roles
• Works alongside the Communications team on people related initiatives being rolled out to ensure that all comms channels are effectively used and there is good access to all news, vacancies, initiatives, surveys etc.
• Coaching managers on senior and complex performance management issues across your business area.
• Facilitate performance calibration discussions and challenge as appropriate.
• Calibrates with the Head of L&D with skills gap analysis and improving the capability of the workforce including leadership, supervisory and development programmes.
• Facilitate data led decision making using people analytics.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required:

• Demonstratable experience as an HR generalist ideally within a manufacturing.
• CIPD or equivalent qualification
• Advanced theoretical knowledge and experience in HR issues covering a breadth of activities and best in class HR practices and policies
• Essential commercial insight and experience gained through cross- functional working
• Extensive change management experience.
• Ability to take commercial insights and translate into the Sales and Service functions people agenda to influence the business.
• Proven ability to persuade, influence and build credibility with all levels and all functions.
• Consultancy skills, specifically diagnosis and contracting.
• Excellent coaching and relationship building skills.
• Strong employee relations experience.
• Demonstrates a track record as a valued coach and peer in the business.
• Broad awareness and empathy for the talent, reward, resourcing and organizational change agendas
• Tenacity and resilience
• Delivery focused with strong work ethic

We offer a competitive salary alongside 25 days holiday per annum not including UK bank holidays. We also offer a contributory pension, staff discounts and more.

Does this sound like you? Then we would love to hear from you!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

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