Description
As Divisional HR Lead, you'll play an integral role in creating a high-performing partnering service that delivers real impact. It's a chance to develop every aspect of HR, including policy and processes, employee relations, organisational design, M&A, and colleague engagement.
Together, you and your team will shape an HR strategic service that meets Davies UK&I's evolving needs. Leading an HR Business Partnering team, you'll provide client-responsive, cost-effective HR solutions, as well as professional HR guidance and support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and own the Davies UK&I HR Partnering and people change agenda, translating HR change requirements into tangible plans and activity to improve the colleague experience, meet business needs, and deliver the strategic plan.
- Collaborate with HR Operations to service colleagues, senior leaders, M&A team, Finance, and business transformation, ensuring all people change needs are agreed and delivered.
- Lead, motivate, and engage the HR Partnering team, managing performance and development, providing expertise, coaching, and ensuring the delivery of a high-quality service.
- Lead and ensure delivery of complex and high-profile HR change initiatives across Davies UK&I, such as Organisational Design, Mergers & Acquisitions, and TUPE transfers.
- Ensure a consistent and quality approach is in place for reporting and updating the business with milestones and progress of HR Plans.
- Maintain industry knowledge and expertise, keeping abreast of HR change, strategic business partnering, and talent acquisition best practice.
- Manage budget, ensuring effective financial planning and forecasting takes place to deliver the HR Business Partnering.
- Partner with the COO and manage senior stakeholders effectively, influencing, negotiating, and building constructive working relationships.
- Support the Chief Human Resources Officer with the development of the HR Strategy and work collaboratively with the Davies UK&I HR leadership team.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:
- Seasoned HR business partnering experience within complex and growth organisations.
- Confident in supporting complex employee relation cases and tribunals.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills; resilient in the face of challenges.
- Ability to design and develop both HR employees and strategies.
- Experience in owning and supporting ongoing employee experience projects.
- Translating strategy into actionable items.
- M&A experience advantageous.
- Previous experience in a law firm or legal entity within a larger organisation, beneficial.
- Experience of working with Irish entities and respective HR nuances, highly advantageous.