HR Business Partner

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Role: HR Business Partner
Located: Northampton (Hybrid)
Package: Competitive salary, bonus plus additional company benefits
 

About Ricoh:

Ricoh is a global technology business. As a company born in print, we design and manufacture graphic solutions that transform communications. To keep up with the pace of change in the workplace, we have built an extensive portfolio of innovative, industry-leading digital services spanning everything from Cloud & IT infrastructure solutions to process automation tools.

Everything we do is designed to help individuals achieve fulfilment through work. Through technology, we make work smarter and more creative. Enabling people to lead purposeful working lives and organisations to become more productive, sustainable and profitable.

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What you will be doing

• To work collaboratively with HR Service Delivery, Partner with fellow HR Business Partners and Senior HRBPs to deliver a comprehensive, high-quality operational HR service that enhances manager capability, promotes HR best practices, and upholds a strong HR customer brand across the business, embedding the overall People strategy to aligned business area.

• Responsible for the executing and implementation of core Strategic HR initiatives with the Senior HRBP, covering talent and succession planning, performance management, reward and recognition, wellbeing, engagement, policy development, resourcing, and organisational effectiveness.

• To engage with key stakeholders for aligned business areas supporting with the business transformation agenda.  Delivering change management support, to advise on business improvement initiatives, procedures and policy that enhance organisational effectiveness, optimise performance, and strengthen employee engagement across the business.

• Proactively apply, monitor, analyse, and interpret HR metrics and management information, providing data-driven insights and actionable recommendations to the Senior HRBPs to drive improvement and business performance

• To partner with the ER and case management team to ensure alignment with policy application, maintaining knowledge of challenging ER matters and act as the escalation point for complex or high-risk matters to safeguard the business’s reputation.

• To work in collaboration with HR colleagues such as the wider Partnering community, COEs and Learning to design and deliver targeted HR training and guidance to build manager competence and confidence in people management, ensuring alignment with business goals and compliance with HR policies and practices.

• Accountable for the promotion of effective use of HR systems and processes with line manager, signposting and assist with knowledge development to improve data integrity, and the overall employee experience.

• To collaborate closely with key stakeholders, assessing headcount requirements against budget and working with the recruitment team to support resourcing needs, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery and alignment with organisational workforce plans.

You will ideally have

• Part or fully CIPD qualified (Level 5 or above)
• Experience of stakeholder partnering, to elevate the employee work experience and fulfilment through work.
• Broad generalist HR experience including managing relationships, performance management, knowledge of current UK employment legislation, employee relations, TUPE, redundancies & restructures
• Knowledge of change management and ability to assist with large inter-departmental projects
• Business and commercial awareness
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• High level of interpersonal skills with the ability to work with various management teams, building effective relationships to be able to objectively challenge and influence change.
• Ability to analyse and interpret key HR metrics and management information to diagnose business / organisation / employee relations / engagement issues
• Continuous learning attitude in order to develop skills further for future succession planning

We are an equal opportunities employer

We are open to discussing adjustments to the recruitment process if needed. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

Striving for inclusion and diversity isn’t just the right thing to do. Diverse approaches, perspectives and experiences make us more innovative, lead to better decisions and help us better understand the needs of our customers.

To empower you to bring your full identity to work, we have employee-led affinity groups in LGBTQ+, gender and ethnicity that allow members to explore issues and challenges surrounding shared identities, experiences and beliefs.

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