HR Business Partner ADS&T

Requirements
Crucial to success as an HRBP is high level capabilities in the following key areas:
• Commercial and business acumen demonstrated in a Senior HR role or as a business leader.
• Strategic mindset and ability demonstrated by a breadth of strategic thinking and a depth of intellectual capability. He/she will need to be capable of gaining credibility with business colleagues, sound judgement and robust decision making.
• Experience in managing change programmes
• Influencing repertoire - The HRBP will build deep trusting relationships and maintain a high degree of integrity. Strong influencing and communications skills, political awareness and high levels of emotional intelligence are key requirements.

Responsibilities
• Take a leading role in shaping the business strategy, ensuring that the people agenda is embedded within it.
• Lead the change programme to create the platform for substantial growth
• Lead talent/succession management for the business, facilitating talent mobility to support career development and enhance capabilities
• Champion, challenge and support organisational development with a particular focus on skills and capabilities to drive growth.
• Lead internal cultural development for the business (engagement, empowerment, consistency, collaboration, diversity, accountability) in line with corporate goals.
• Champion employee engagement and recognition to create a vibrant workplace
• Actively support our Diversity and Inclusion agenda recognising the benefits that diversity brings
• Proactively participate as a member of the HR Leadership Team to drive UK&E HR strategy and plans
• Establish external networks to bring in fresh thinking and new ideas to support delivery of our strategy
• Coach senior colleagues
• Facilitate business performance by enabling business leaders and managers to get the best out of their people through effective performance management.
• Ensure that appropriate KPIs and management information are in place to drive continuous improvement and enable measurement of progress against targets.
• Assure compliance and governance.
• Manage business risk.

The Individual
The HRBP will be a resilient, tenacious individual, open to others and to uncertainty, maintaining an engaging leadership style, asserting independent views and a willingness to challenge. Working for the overall good of the Company (rather than through silo thinking) he/she will encourage and influence the behaviours of others to adopt a collaborative style and drive collaboration in others.

Training
Atkins develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development activities designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents. These are reviewed with individuals through an annual appraisal process. We actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.

Atkins offers a fantastic range of benefits, which you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. 
All the information you need to know is available on our dedicated benefits portal; your reward, which is available to access 24/7 from any device: https://www.yourrewardatkins.com

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary it will be discussed with you at interview.

If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance.