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Overview
Overview
Role Title: HR Business Partner - 12 Month FTC
Location: London, Oxfordshire (Harwell), hybrid-working
Job ID: 2025-3015
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
We are currently looking for an HR Business Partner to join our People team in a global role. As a HR Business Partner,you will enable the delivery of overall business goals through working with multiple Practice leaders in the Clean Energy and Environmental Solutions business unit, identifying and co-ordinating the implementation of HR solutions to improve business performance and providing management coaching on HR issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop work force plans in collaboration with business leaders and the finance team.
- Enable strong business performance, through supporting senior talent development, OD and change, and capability building.
- Operationally support senior leaders with HR process, senior hires, ER case escalation.
- Provide input to the HR Director in the development of the BU HR strategy through on the ground knowledge.
- Work in partnership with leaders in the business area, understanding the key performance issues, objectives and drivers and proactively driving people implications.
- Identify, develop and successfully deliver client responsive, cost effective and measurable solutions.
- Identify and consider the implications of the need for change and facilitate the formulation of change plans from an HR and business perspective.
- To act as a change agent, supporting change initiatives whilst driving towards desired organisational culture and supporting values.
- Challenge and coach line managers on how to engage employees, address resulting people and employee relations issues and build people capabilities effectively.
- Ensure HR activity is aligned to business needs and support deployments across the business unit.
- Proactively support in the joint review of policies and processes and responsible for ensuring effective implementation of HR processes/policies.
- Collaborate with CoE’ to deploy interventions designed to meet business needs.
- Understanding and experience of business and workforce planning within a consulting / professional services business.
- Change Management – understanding the practical application of change theory.
- Relationship management - Managing customers and expectations.
- Project management.
- Experience and/or an understanding of HR best practice and methodology in the functional specialisms (resourcing, reward, performance management, talent/leadership, learning, employee relations)
- Proven track record of understanding key drivers in a business area and working in partnership with managers to measurably improve people management practices.
- Experience of coaching managers on reward, resourcing, performance management, talent, learning, employee relations/engagement (including discipline and grievance)
- Facilitating teams to achieve defined outcomes.
- Experience of implementing company initiatives across a business area.
- Experience of managing projects.
- Broad generalist knowledge across all disciplines gained through experience.
- Experience of working within an international matrix organisation.
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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