Key Responsibilities

• Be the senior HR business partner to identified client groups providing support and coaching to people leaders on talent and culture initiatives, such as:
• Support managers in building and leading successful teams by offering expertise and mentoring on appropriate people management practices.
• Provide thought partnership on people-related initiatives and their execution, as well as insights to guide decision-making and offer proactive solutions.
• Contribute and implement robust talent management action plans to identify and fill competency, knowledge and talent gaps alongside retaining key talent (engagement, succession planning, learning and development, performance management, assessment, compensation planning, recruiting etc.).
• Ensure that functional and individual goals are aligned through effective implementation of performance management processes.
• Raise awareness of current and anticipated people opportunities, challenges and risks to inform current and future people related decisions and activity.
• Develop HR reporting and analytics for your business areas to monitor and measure trends.
• Work closely with people leaders in managing employee relations cases such as health and wellbeing support through occupational health, performance management, long and short-term sickness absence, flexible working requests, disciplinaries, grievances, investigation, end of contract support including probation and restructures.
• Deliver an outstanding employee experience to the region and selected client groups.
• Collaborate with regional HR and global centre of excellence teams to facilitate regional and country specific delivery of HR services such as HR operations, HRIS, Talent Management & Compensation & Benefits.
• Support the global talent acquisition team to drive the recruitment process to attract and recruit world class experience and emerging talent.
• Responsible for developing and delivering HR Programs, best practices, and people solutions.
• Design and implement relevant polices and processes and projects, with effective change management.
• Build credible relationships with key leadership, management, business partners and peers globally by combining commercial and HR expertise that adds value to the business.

What we require

• You will have 8+ years' experience as a HR business partner or HR manager.
• Able to build relationships quickly, understand business and build proactive people agendas and demonstrate strong influencing skills.
• Be comfortable at acting with pace, with a huge amount of change and ambiguity that goes alongside a rapidly scaling science led tech business.
• A self-starter, you will be able to work independently, see opportunities and devise plans to make a positive impact.

What we prefer

• Experience in a scaling scientific or tech business.
• A talent-based outlook with a passion for talent management, development of leaders, career development and positive performance management.
• CIPD qualified or similar (ideally level 7).
• Commercially savvy, you are able to influence, challenge and interpret business direction into strategic and tactical plans, with a resilient but natural style that brings the business and teams together.
• A thought partner who demonstrates a good balance of emotional intelligence with pragmatic judgement.
• Ability to travel to our offices in Cambridge, Oxford and London, as required, balanced through a hybrid working approach.

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