HR Business Partner

What the role involves

• Advise leaders on organisation design, workforce planning and talent decisions
• Coach managers on performance, development and difficult people decisions
• Translate business plans into people plans and workforce budgets
• Use people data to identify patterns and recommend action
• Lead change with the business, not alongside it

Core skills

• Strategic Workforce Planning (level 4/5)
• Organisational Design (level 3/5)
• Performance & Talent Management (level 4/5)
• Executive Coaching & Advisory (level 4/5)
• People Analytics (level 3/5)
• Change Management (level 4/5)

Preferred skills

• Compensation & Benefits Strategy
• Leadership Development
• Commercial Acumen

Tools

Experience expected

4-7 years in HR with business partnering responsibility

Projects that prove the role

• Organisational redesign supporting a business expansion
• Performance framework adoption across a leadership team
• Change programme through a merger or restructure

Evidence to collect

• A workforce plan tied to a real business plan
• A coaching example with a measurable business outcome
• People analytics that changed a leadership decision

What the interview covers

• A reorganisation you advised on and the human outcome
• A performance case you handled as a business partner
• Where you disagreed with a leader about people decisions
• How you used data to influence an executive team

How the role progresses

• HR Specialist
• HR Business Partner
• Senior HRBP
• Director of HR
• Chief People Officer

Certifications that carry weight

• SHRM-SCP
• SHRM-CP
• CIPD Level 7
• Coaching for Performance (validated)

Related roles

• hr-specialist
• learning-and-development-specialist
• compensation-analyst
• operations-manager

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