Human Resources Business Partner - Informa Global Support

At Informa, no two days and no two people are the same, and you'll find the freedom, opportunity and support of a fantastic community to make a real impact.

We’re an international business that connects specialists with knowledge, helping them to learn more, know more and do more through live and on demand events, digital and data-driven services and academic research.

We are home to over 10,000 colleagues across 30 countries and are a member of the UK’s FTSE 100 group of leading public companies.

In Global Support, we provide expert guidance and hands-on support to the Informa Group and Informa’s many business teams. Across tech, finance, legal, corporate development, HR, communications, operations and many other areas, we work collaboratively and flexibly to help our brands serve their customers and help the company succeed.

As the HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will serve as a strategic expert, partnering with leaders to address people and organizational challenges while proactively identifying HR opportunities to help meet business goals. Working closely with both the HR community and functional leaders, you’ll play a key role in guiding the implementation of our people strategy.

You will be instrumental in driving critical programs and initiatives that shape our organization, including target operating model implementation, performance and talent management, succession planning, reward and recognition, employee engagement, organizational development, and change management. As an HRBP, you’ll provide advice and support on HR best practices and policy to colleagues and managers and manage complex employee relations issues.

Collaboration will be essential, as you work alongside HR Shared Services and other HR specialists, such as Reward, Learning, and Talent Acquisition, to bring a unified HR approach to the business as part of a global team.

This role is part of the Global Support HRBP Collective team and reports to the Head of HR for GBS and COO Finance.

In your role as HRBP, you will assume the following key responsibilities, along with any additional reasonable duties as required:

• Partnering leaders - Build strategic partnerships with leaders and managers, driving development and alignment of HR consultancy services and strategic projects and programmes. Be authentic and willing to challenge leaders thinking.
• Range of work - Act as a trusted advisor on all strategic people and organisation related topics, with a strong focus on talent management, performance management, organisation effectiveness and optimisation, change management, reward and recognition and ER.
• Forward thinking - Act as a change agent, championing new people initiatives.
• Employee relations - Provide guidance on complex employee relations issues and manage people related risks in partnership with the in-house legal team.
• Process & governance - Ensure that HR processes are executed in alignment with expectations and that process touch points are properly owned/executed.
• Coaching and empowering managers – support but enable managers to own day-to-day employee matters, coaching and providing templates and materials without being directly involved unless necessary.
• Metrics - Understand the people metrics for GS and any functional team working with as appropriate for the task including headcount, budget, performance and productivity, talent, attrition, spans of control, engagement etc and use data to inform HR actions and priorities.
• Workload management –organise your own workload and delivery including delivering through others, showing ownership, accountability, timeliness and anticipate and navigate through problems to deliver for our GS customers.  Escalate or flag challenges as appropriate.  
• Managing/mentoring others – the HRBP will be a professional role model to more junior team members and may sponsor others delivery on tasks/projects and may have direct line management responsibility.

• Able to demonstrate a solid knowledge of contemporary HR practices as well as a clear understanding of the challenges and opportunities for the global client group/s
• Able to leverage the collective expertise of the HRBP community to provide best in class HR services.
• Able to challenge and influence at a leadership level.
• Well organised, takes ownership of tasks and collaborates with others to deliver.
• Confident, calm and focused.
• Relationship builder who creates partnerships based on trust.
• Personal credibility.
• Clear, succinct verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative, yet pragmatic – meets the client where they are and “stretches” their thinking.
• Involved and passionate, but able to exercise objectivity and detachment towards high quality outcomes.
• Ability to develop and present content with confidence and gravitas.

The pay range for this role is $70,000-$81,000 depending on experince.

This posting will automatically expire on 11/22/2024

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us. But don’t just take our word for it – see what our colleagues have to say at LifeAt.Informa.com

Our benefits include:

• Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive, and we support a range of working patterns
• Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
• Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
• Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
• Time out: 15 days PTO rising to 20 after three years and 25 after six years, plus 10 national holidays, a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
•  Competitive benefits, including a 401k match, health, vision and dental insurance, parental leave and an ESPP offering company shares at a minimum 15% discount
• Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, free access to a wellness app and more
•  Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programs • As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition, and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

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