HR Business Partner

Role Purpose (Job Profile):    

The HR Business Partner role is to serve as a strategic advisor and partner to the organisation's leadership in specific business units, aligning the people plan and human resources initiatives with business objectives to drive organisational success. The HRBP works closely with business leaders to understand their goals, challenges, and needs, and then develops and implements HR strategies and plans that support these goals; working collaboratively and cross functionally as an HR business partnering team to own specific activities and projects to ensure the most effective delivery.

Main Duties:

• Act as a trusted advisor to functional managers and leaders via regular 121s, building effective partnerships to provide consultative, strategic, and tactical guidance to support organisational and development initiatives at all levels.  Working to develop management capability via the Williams V&B framework.
• Advise, coach and empower managers and employees on HR-related matters.
• Manage and effectively support managers to resolve all types and levels of ER cases including disciplinary, capability, grievance and sickness absence, ensuring adherence to guiding ER principles and People Strategy, while maintaining positive employment relationships.
• Keep up to date with UK law and incorporate changes into our policies and procedures.
• Work with leadership to identify skills and capability gaps and in partnership with the Finance department and Early Careers create and implement effective workforce planning processes to address.
• Support people planning and review processes, including talent review and succession planning, providing sufficient challenge to managers and engaging with the Learning and Development function on training needs identification, and solutions that improve talent development and retention.
• Partner with the Talent Acquisition team and Leadership on talent mapping/resourcing to ensure a healthy pipeline of industry appropriate ‘brightest and best’ talent.
• Partner with managers to promote and facilitate effective delivery of key people processes; including, End of Year Reviews, OKR creation and Salary Review to drive business performance.
• Use internal and external data and insights to support objective decision-making within client areas; working with the HR Operations team to optimise effective use of Workday data.
• Collaborate with Centres of Excellence to seek out efficiencies that promote customer experience and innovative process improvements within the HR team to drive a culture of sustainable high performance in our mission to win multiple world championships.

Key Accountabilities:

Fulfil all organisational expectations, including but not limited to the following:

• Role model Williams Values & Behaviours, supporting and holding others accountable to do the same.
• Always ensure compliance with health and safety obligations, supporting managers to uphold expected standards.  
• Ensure high standards of behaviour and conduct are upheld across the organisation, including the wellbeing of team members.
• Ensure you adhere to brand rules and maintain high standards of department presentation.

• Comply with quality standards and identify and contribute ways to continuously improve department and personal performance.

• Ensure understanding of cost cap requirements and identify opportunities to improve optimisation.  

Core Competencies (Novice, Developing, Expert):

• Business Acumen – In depth understanding of industry trends and dynamics and the role of HR in creating impact and customer value that are aligned to the Williams vision, strategy and goals.
• Strategic Thinking – Partners with customers to diagnose needs and propose and deliver HR solutions that meet their expectations.
• Relationship Management – Balances the needs of various stakeholders and effectively deals with conflict; facilitates feedback across the organisation to improve business performance.
• Data Literacy and Analytics – Interprets financial data that contributes to business planning, can create and monitor a budget; regularly uses HR data to uncover insights to inform decision making.
• Organisational Design and Workforce Planning – Developing and facilitating organizational design implementation to ensure effectiveness and alignment with stakeholders’ priorities; Developing workforce plans to improve skills and capabilities.
• Change Management - Supporting, guiding, and managing change within the organization from a people perspective.

Qualifications and Experience Level:

• Previous HR experience, with a proven track record of working with managers and team members to deliver HR initiatives and plans within a commercial setting.  Solid knowledge of employment legislation and ER frameworks.
• Experience of supporting organisational change and development.
• CIPD Level 5 (Or Equivalent)

This job description is not exhaustive, and the job holder will be required to carry out from time-to-time tasks in addition to the above that will be both reasonable and within their capabilities.

For almost 50 years, Williams Racing has been at the forefront of one of the fastest sports on the planet, being one of the top three most successful teams in history competing in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. With an almost unrivalled heritage of engineering and racing F1 cars and unforgettable eras that demonstrate it is a force to be reckoned with, the British squad boasts 16 F1 World Championship titles to its name. 

Since its foundation in 1977 by the eminent, late Sir Frank Williams and engineering pioneer Sir Patrick Head, the team has won nine Constructors’ Championships, in association with Cosworth, Honda and Renault. Its roll call of drivers is legendary, with its seven Drivers’ Championship trophies being lifted by true icons of the sport: Alan Jones, Keke Rosberg, Nelson Piquet, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve. The team has made history before and is out to make it again with a long-term mission to evolve and return to the front of the grid.

Atlassian Williams Racing is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.