HR Business Partner - EMEA
Gentrack · London, London ·
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Gentrack are currently hiring a new People Experience (PX) Business Partner for EMEA
The role of the PX Business Partner is to work with the PX EMEA Director and the wider regional and global team. Primarily responsible to partner with the Product function and our Veovo team in the UK, Denmark, Dubai and India.
The People Experience Team is about talent attraction and development, career mobility and opportunity, great communications, pride, and recognition and finally being transparent but fair while holding true to the high bar on talent.
You will leverage your experience working in People Experience functions to implement creative commercial solutions, following industry best practice. You will work with the rest of the global People Experience organisation that has teams located in Gentrack’s centres in New Zealand, Australia, and India.
The role of the PX Business Partner is to work with the PX EMEA Director and the wider regional and global team. Primarily responsible to partner with the Product function and our Veovo team in the UK, Denmark, Dubai and India.
The People Experience Team is about talent attraction and development, career mobility and opportunity, great communications, pride, and recognition and finally being transparent but fair while holding true to the high bar on talent.
You will leverage your experience working in People Experience functions to implement creative commercial solutions, following industry best practice. You will work with the rest of the global People Experience organisation that has teams located in Gentrack’s centres in New Zealand, Australia, and India.
As the PX Business Partner, you will be empowered to coach and partner with your client base, under the guidance of the PX Director for the region. This is an end to-end role, we are a hands-on team, and a team player attitude as well as excellent coaching and change implementation skills as well as high energy and positivity will see you succeed.
The new growth and identity of the business are key – to retain our talent as the brand and team continues to grow. The pace and challenge to establish an indemnity through this growth are challenging and with the global time zones this can be a challenge. You will need to be flexible with this but also ensure that it does not overly compromise work-life balance.
You will have the full support of the Chief People Officer, PX Director EMEA and all your colleagues and whilst no day is the same, we would expect you to provide expertise in the following:
The new growth and identity of the business are key – to retain our talent as the brand and team continues to grow. The pace and challenge to establish an indemnity through this growth are challenging and with the global time zones this can be a challenge. You will need to be flexible with this but also ensure that it does not overly compromise work-life balance.
You will have the full support of the Chief People Officer, PX Director EMEA and all your colleagues and whilst no day is the same, we would expect you to provide expertise in the following:
- Provide strategic direction and insights on the organisational design – coaching and building change plans to manage – mitigating risk and delivering seamless and effective change.
- Bringing commercial PX insights, aligned with company financials to ensure cost management and optimisation in line with business growth – partnering with the regional senior leadership team, finance and providing commercial insights and challenge as appropriate via the Monthly and Quarterly business reviews.
- Coaching senior leaders – acting as a confidante, advisor, and coach
- Contribute to the regional People strategy with insights and feedback from your client group and in accordance with market.
- Provide strategic direction, reviews and expertise in talent development, future proofed succession planning and organisational design.
- Assist the PX Director for the region to advise of country specific legislations and market changes that should be considered as part of the regional strategy.
- Liaise closely with the Talent Acquisition Business Partners to align on the sourcing strategy and needs of your client group – ensuring that we are proactively and strategically resource planning.
- Ensure that there is no compromise regarding the new growth and identity of the business– ensuring an effective engagement strategy to retain our talent as the brand and team grows globally.
- Lead on annual cycle deliverables for your function (Year-end/ talent reviews/ engagement surveys/ functional and regional leadership development programs) • Opportunity to partner on or lead regional or global people transformation change projects, as part of the team goals and to enable your development and progression.
- Substantial experience as a People Experience Practitioner in a relevant industry.
- You are passionate about delivering market leading people experience to our stakeholders.
- You are a people person; you get a buzz out of seeing your teams achieve their goals and building up individuals so that they can grow and progress.
- Advanced change management skills to coach business and change through successful change.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills - you can garner the trust of the Senior Leadership Team members as well as the broader team.
- You love data and combine it with your experience and intuition to solve problems.
- You’re an excellent communicator and can adjust your style so that you’re as relatable to team members as you are respected when engaging with senior customer stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s Degree in any career stream is preferred but not required.
We use AI to help our recruitment team review CVs and application responses against the requirements of the role.
- Competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- Life and income protection
- 24-days annual leave
- Enhanced parental leave
- Tailored learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working hours and remote-work opportunities
Interested?
If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please click on the “Apply” button to submit your application.
If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please click on the “Apply” button to submit your application.
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