HR Specialist

HR Specialist based in Basildon £42/46K


Your new company
A HR Specialist is required for an international organisation based in south Essex. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an international HR team providing professional HR service in a fast paced and challenging commercial environment. In this role you will have a fantastic opportunity to develop your HR experience by working as a HR Business Partner working closely with your customer group to ensure that the HR service supports the Business.

While you will be part of a close working HR team, you will have a high level of accountability and will be working at all levels of the business up to MD level

• Business partner to line management and managers within the senior leadership team, providing professional HR support in line with business priorities
• Facilitate and support Talent Identification and Development processes
• Support line management on internal and external recruitment and selection processes
• Support organisation design, restructuring initiatives and staffing
• Advise and support line management with the deployment of People policies e.g. Diversity, culture initiatives, flexible work arrangements, performance management, absence, grievance and discipline, hybrid working etc.
• Contribute to and/or lead HR related project work and new initiatives,
• Partner with the 'Talent' Community of Excellence for capability building e.g. change management, coaching on key people matters (incl, culture and performance), team development initiatives etc.
• Manage complex absence cases in conjunction with People Leaders and Occupational Health.
• Complete HR department administrative tasks such as International Mobility Administration and Compliance
• Lead on project managing the annual Graduate Recruitment campaign.
• Partner with the Business Graduate Committee on all aspects of the scheme management, including role rotation planning and on-going Graduate development.

What you'll need to succeed

• Degree qualified and preferably CIPD qualified (or working towards, ideally CIPD Level 7)
• HR experience with a large, complex organisation with practical experience of HR activities like recruitment, discipline, grievance, absence management, project management.
• Ability to influence and negotiate at all levels of the organisation including at senior management level
• Customer focus and able to build strong business partnerships
• Strong team player, ability to work flexibly and deliver under pressure, particularly when driving new initiatives and incremental tasks,
• A high level of integrity must be demonstrated in order to be successful in this role

What you'll get in return
A competitive salary with excellent benefits package that includes; 26 days annual leave & Bank Holidays, pension, Hybrid working, onsite parking, free gym membership and optional professional development.

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