HR Business Partner Lead

HR Business Partner (US)Our HR team is looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join them. We have a team of dedicated and talented HR professionals, taking responsibility for all people aspects of the business. This includes the whole employee life cycle, from attracting new joiners, on-boarding, development throughout their career, ensuring they work in a balanced and healthy way, supporting them when needed, enabling efficient and effective processes throughout, every day, for their entire journey at Baringa.
As we continue to grow organically, we need to ensure our people processes are set up to enable the future size and shape of the business to operate effectively and efficiently, using the appropriate tools. Supporting the ever-evolving business needs and being a key player in the change management of the firm, is a core part of this role.
What You Will Be DoingBe the HRBP for the US, looking after the full breadth of the people agenda and being the first point of HR support for our US based colleagues. Our current US locations are New York, Houston, Chicago and Charlotte.
HRBP roles at Baringa are very broad, so there will be plenty of scope to operate across a range of different activities, including Performance Management, Wellness, Employee Relations, Talent Management, On boarding, Promotions, Salary reviews and People MI.
You will develop and own the local People Plans for your client group and be accountable for ensuring progress against this, including engaging with other parts of HR, including Reward, Recruitment, Employee Experience and L&D.
You will need to build trusted relationships and provide hands-on support to Partner Lead(s) in helping them deliver the people agenda of their business plans.
You will be able to effectively support, advise, coach and upskill our people managers with a range of experience.
You will deliver training programmes across US that educate and upskill our people on Baringa best practice and ways of working.
You will enjoy being proactive with your stakeholders and be confident to challenge and influence.
Support with org structure changes and workforce planning.
You will work closely with colleagues across our US locations, and the broader People team based in the UK, and you will need to be able to flex your approach to accommodate different jurisdictional/location requirements.
This role reports directly into the Senior HR Business Partner for the Energy & Resources sector, and interfaces with Partners and senior leaders across the US business. You will live and breathe our values and be a great role-model for our culture and behaviours.
Your Skills and ExperienceExperience within HR, and ideally within a HRBP/HR Generalist role.
Experience working with US professional services firms and/or Partnerships is desirable.
Strong ER knowledge and application of procedures including investigations, performance and sick absence management
- you must be able to manage a range of ER cases independently and in line with local labour law.
An excellent communicator and influencer who can help develop good HR practice with a strong stakeholder management capability, to interact effectively with the appropriate management teams as well as the wider business at Baringa.
A self-motivated individual who can work on their own initiative, with a can do attitude, willing to roll-up their sleeves and get stuck in.
Operates with good judgement and risk lens, balancing the needs of local stakeholders with the long-term interests of Baringa overall.
Someone who can work in true partnership with colleagues across the broader People and broader corporate functions.
Provide comprehensive advice, guidance, and support on the training, learning and people development interventions required across the company, working with the BU and central teams.
What a Career at Baringa Will Give YouPutting People FirstBaringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:Annual salary within the range of $170,000-$220,000.
Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
Flexible Working:We know that the 'ideal' work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
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