Human Resources Business Partner Support

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Human Resources Business Partner Support

Sector: Human Resources
Role: Partner
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail
At Network Rail, our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. Scotland's Railway is part of this large family, covering a large geographical area from the Borders to Thurso, accounting for almost 20% of the UK rail network. We provide rapid access along busy commuter routes to our seven cities, servicing the varied needs of our business and leisure commuter services, including cross-border services and rural services. We have up to 50 freight services operating every day and are steadily building capacity for this to grow. Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day, and we're empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network.

Our colleagues are encouraged to work flexibly. If you need flexibility to complete your role, just let us know, and we will do our utmost to help you invest in your career with us while balancing other aspects of your life. We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and will try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply, and interview for roles.

Brief Description
Provide proactive, professional HR support to HR Business Partner teams to enable the delivery of value-add HR support and the people plan for the supported organisation/s.

Please note, there are two positions available.

About the role (External)

Here are some of the duties your role will include:

1. Provide proactive, professional HR Support to the HR Business Partner team/s and the business to facilitate the delivery of value-add HR and the day-to-day HR service to the business and the people/HR plans.
2. Manage the departmental HR support inbox, answering a range of generalist HR queries where possible, or directing queries to relevant individuals.
3. Support the associated HR Business Partner team/s with ad hoc administrative and operational HR activity including note-taking at various HR meetings.
4. Support HR Business Partner teams in Talent Management, Workforce and Succession Planning, and performance planning, maintaining appropriate data within the associated process.
5. Provide support for Organisation Change programmes, through the full development and implementation phases.
6. Provide project management support to the HR Business Partner team, tracking, measuring and communicating through the project timeline.
7. Support the associated HR Business Partner team/s with research, reporting requirements, analysis and production of reports to support the implementation of HR initiatives.
8. Seek, identify and develop solutions to continuously improve the HR support to the business.
9. Maintain up-to-date professional HR knowledge to input into the development of both operational and value-add HR initiatives.
10. Take ownership for delivery of assigned work within HR programmes/initiatives.

What you will bring to the role:

1. Demonstrates strong customer service skills.
2. Experience of working within a large, complex and fast-moving organisation.
3. High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
4. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
5. Strong time management, organisation and prioritisation skills, and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
6. Resilient, adaptable and flexible.
7. IT literate, strong Excel, Word and PowerPoint knowledge.
8. Experience of event coordination and facilitation.
9. Research and analytical skills.
10. Strong relationship-building skills.
11. Experience of supporting the delivery of HR initiatives and projects.

It's desirable if you have it to help give you context to the role:

1. CIPD Qualified or relevant HR Support experience.
2. Graduate calibre.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges - but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We're proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it's crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability, and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it's vital to get each individual's training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

Your health, wellbeing, and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn't just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance, and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits - Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers - cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

'Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. 'Inclusion' means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail - making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

Find out more about our recruitment process here.