Head of People Partnering

Job type: Fulltime or parttime (minimum 30 hours per week but all working patterns considered)

Salary: Around 65000 per annum depending on your experience and location

Location: South West or South East based. This is a hybrid role where youll be mainly based from home but therell be regular travel for client and internal meetings.

A bit about us

Were the fullservice HR consultancy that synchronises seamlessly with our clients businesses. An outsourced team that feels like an inhouse superpower.

We think that expert guidance on how to recruit retain develop and lead people should be available to every business big or small. Because the right advice at the right time from the right specialist can be gamechanging.

Were here to make those conversations happen. We help our clients to recruit manage and retain the best people for their organisations whether as a oneoff project or an ongoing service. The work we do with them enables them to create a culture where everyone can bring the best version of themselves to work.

Ultimately people are the foundation of our clients success and we think they can be amazing if theyre given the right environment and support. Together we help our clients create a great place to work and make sure theyre ready to conquer their corner of the world.

We know that even in the best of workplaces difficult employee issues arise. We help our clients face these challenges simplify the complex and handle everything with care and consideration for their people and culture.

We eat sleep and breathe this stuff. From people strategy to HR admin were here to help whether its a people team needing additional resource or a business wanting to outsource their HR. However they need us well be there: on call or on site whatever works best for them.

Were on a mission to show brilliant companies what happens when they hire really smart people (thats us) to help them be the very best employers they can be. The only thing we cant handle Letting our clients down.

What youll be doing

Youll work closely with clients and colleagues to deliver exceptional work manage accounts and lead your team of around 10 people. As a member of our leadership team youll also be part of helping us develop the strategic direction of our business.

We think this is a super exciting role where youll have the opportunity to come on board just as were starting on the next journey of Fitzgerald. Your responsibilities will be many and varied but never boring. Heres a brief summary of your day to day role:

• Resolve issues fix problems we like to face anything thats not working head on so were not still talking about the same concerns a year later!
• Develop and implement service delivery strategies with the leadership team so we keep getting better at what we do.
• Work with your team so that our strategies and initiatives are fully embedded and understood.
• Maintain and sometimes develop our account management practices so that everyone knows exactly how to deliver an outstanding experience for our clients.
• Grow and develop fantastic relationships with key accounts and with our partners suppliers and associates.
• Be an outstanding member of the leadership team working together with us to achieve our mission.
• Provide brilliant advice and guidance to clients on complex people issues and initiatives including overseeing projects and casework.
• Lead the People Partnering team members so they have the skills they need to do an outstanding job and be engaged and happy.
• Quality review the work drafted by your team and other internal teams to make sure it meets our quality standards.

About you

Youre passionate about doing a brilliant job and youll do whatever it takes to achieve a great outcome even when the going gets tough. You understand that worthwhile things can be difficult to accomplish and take time perseverance and discipline to achieve. You care about delivering the best service possible and set the bar high for everything you do.

Youre supportive and empathetic but youre willing to make tough decisions and have the difficult conversations when needed and you know thats important.

You look for winwin outcomes and hold yourself and your team to the highest of standards.

In terms of your career you have lots of experience working in a generalist HR role and you can draw on this to deliver commercially focussed results for clients.

Youve supported and advised managers and leaders across a range of HR/people issues and you know how to spot the risks and provide informed advice to team members colleagues and clients.

You have a proven background of leading and developing a team and have the ability to work with your team members to get the best out them meet deadlines and achieve great things.

Youre a strategic thinker with the ability to develop and implement organisational plans and have confidence in consulting with influencing and partnering with key stakeholders up to board level.

You have a level 7 CIPD qualification (or youre working towards it) or you may have an equivalent relevant qualification. Your written and verbal communication skills are outstanding and youve drafted lots of reports and documentation.

If youve worked in an HR/People consultancy or client services environment that would be great as would experience of working as part of a leadership team but this is not essential. Well put in place a development programme to fill any gaps in experience that you may have.

Perhaps it goes without saying but you are of course comfortable using various IT systems including MS Office. And finally you have a driving licence so you can get out and about to visit your team and clients.

The Perks

Were probably biased but we think this role is exciting interesting fun challenging full of growth opportunities we could go on. All that aside we also offer:

• Competitive salary circa65000 per annumFTE.
• 25 days holiday when you start employment with us 27 days holiday after 1 year service 29 days holiday after 2 years service bank holidays.
• 4% employer pension contributions (4% minimum employee contribution).
• Medicash health cash plan insurance policy.
• Access to an employee assistance programme which includes features such as 24/7 helpline for emotional and practical support.
• Unlimited 24/7 remote GP appointments and mental health support.
• Wellbeing support including access to nutritional fitness and lifestyle coaching sessions and physiotherapy.
• Life assurance at 4 times basic salary.
• Shopping discounts platform.
• Monthly homeworking allowance with equipment provision.
• Supported career qualifications.
• Integration into a progressive expanding business.
• Collaborative and supportive team environment.
• Social events and virtual gatherings.

Time to apply!

There are a few stages in our application process which help you get to know us as much as it helps us get to know you. This includes a first interview with a written assessment a psychometric test (the bonus for you is that youll receive really useful feedback from an occupational psychologist) and a final interview where youll also get to meet the leadership team.

If this sounds good and you think Fitzgerald could be the place for you APPLY NOW. We cant wait to hear from you!

Closing Date: 13 October 2024

We really want our workforce to be more representative of all sections of society and so we actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.