We're looking for a People Operations Business Partner to join us in either our Bristol or Newcastle office.

The Team 

Our People Operations team supports colleagues across the firm with advice, guidance and practical support on a wide range of people matters. Working closely with teams across the business, they lead on wellbeing, engagement, reward and benefits, employee communications and key people initiatives. Their focus is on creating an inclusive and supportive environment where our people can thrive and do their best work.

The role

As a People Operations Business Partner, you'll work closely with business leaders to understand their priorities and provide expert advice on people-related matters. From organisational change and workforce planning to employee relations and performance management, you'll help deliver practical solutions that support our people and the success of the business. You'll build strong relationships, influence decision-making and play an important role in delivering our people strategy.

What are we looking for?

To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:

• Previous experience in a People Operations Business Partner or HR Manager role, with responsibility for providing advice and support across a broad range of people matters.
• Strong working knowledge of employee relations, including absence management, disciplinary, grievance, performance and capability matters.
• Experience of building effective relationships with managers and stakeholders, with the confidence to provide clear, pragmatic advice and challenge where appropriate.
• A commercially focused approach, with the ability to balance business needs with people considerations and identify practical solutions. 
• Experience supporting organisational change initiatives, workforce planning activities or business improvement projects.

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel and has helped us earn the Great Place to Work® certification in the UK, based entirely on feedback from our people.  Recognising our commitment to creating a high-trust workplace where people feel valued, supported and empowered to succeed.

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion team and an Inclusive Recruitment Lead, who all work with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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