HR Business Partner in Cheltenham

Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

Key Responsibilities:

• Effectively develop and maintain meaningful partnering relationships with key stakeholders and people leaders to gain trust and positively influence decisions and initiatives
• Provide a wide-ranging and commercially focused HR Business Partnering service to people leaders in a specified client group, ensuring they have the necessary tools and capability to professionally manage themselves and their employees
• Build management capability through coaching and challenging on people management decisions
• Create solutions to people issues that enable stakeholders to better meet their commercial objectives
• Implement, maintain and advocate for HR policies to deliver business goals, ensuring the appropriate legislation is adhered to
• Advise on HR legal and employee relations matters to ensure consistency, legal compliance and risk mitigation
• Plan and implement HR initiatives and projects aligned to the HR and Business strategies
• Use key people analytics to identify potential issues, find trends, inform decisions and make recommendations to key stakeholders
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to drive recruitment to attract, develop and retain talent and build a pipeline for key positions
• Manage the full employee lifecycle through the HRIS ensuring the accuracy of data
• Assist in the delivery of meaningful onboarding experiences to new employees
• Identify critical roles and develop succession strategies, nurturing high-potential employee through career development and training initiatives
• Effectively manage employee information in line with GDPR

• Liaise with the Employee Council when required

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experienced HR Business Partner, ideally supported by CIPD level 7
• Experience in a generalist HR role with a business partner approach
• Proven background in adding value and improving efficiencies
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law
• Experience using Workday is advantageous
• Experience working in an Engineering/Manufacturing environment
• Specific experience in the Learning and Development discipline would be desirable
• Confident influencer and communicator
• Motivated by results and strives to exceed expectations
• High energy, creative and resourceful self-starter
• Has a flexible approach to meet the changing demands of the business
• Team player, receptive to ideas
• Proactive “can do” approach to problem solving
• Excellent written and spoken English is essential
• Good networking skills
• Willing to travel on occasion

Security Clearance:

Candidates must be able to achieve SC security clearance

Benefits:

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.

• Flexible working within core working hours

• 25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell 5 days plus bank holidays.

• 4 times your annual salary in life assurance

• Flexible benefits package

• Pension Scheme - Less than 5 years' service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years' service + up to 7.5% employer contributions. 

• Sports and Social club

• Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events

You couldn’t be joining the team and Ultra at a more exciting time. Therefore if this sounds of interest, please follow the application process

Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.