HR Business Partner

Job Introduction

If you’re an experienced HR Business Partner looking for a challenging and diverse role then this could be the next opportunity for you.

We are recruiting a HR Business Partner to join our Corporate Services segment here at Sodexo where you will be required to partner with the business leaders & Regional Segment HR Director to drive and deliver HR solutions. If successful you will maximise people performance, strategy and workforce planning, develop, support and promote an HR community of practice which will significantly contribute towards strengthening our business performance.

This is an exciting role that will see the successful HR Business Partner utilising your skills, with a competitive salary and benefits package attached.

The HR Business Partner role will need to be based in London and will need to travel to the Midlands and north region of the country as and when needed. 

If you would like more information to understand what it is like to work for Sodexo and a career in Corporate Services, please follow the link below;

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Role Responsibility

• To lead and deliver the people agenda across the account
• Partner with business leaders to drive and deliver HR solutions to: maximise people performance, strategy and workforce planning, organisational change, develop support and promote a HR community of practice which will significantly contribute towards strengthening business performance.
• Support business development of the account to help retain & grow the services, drive the commercial effectiveness.
• Supporting and promoting a zero-accident mind-set.
• Develop and deliver a people plan that delivers business results
• Support with Employee relations and engagement to increase better engaged employees and facilitate the development and delivery of action plans.
• Create, engage and lead succession plan processes in line with the workforce plan to maximise talent management and pipeline.

The Ideal Candidate

• Educated to degree level or equivalent HR practitioner qualification or qualified by experience
• An appropriate level of strong HR generalist experience and detailed understanding of all aspects of HR Management including reward, resourcing, talent management/succession planning, change management and employee relations
• Understand Facilities Management or similar sector experience would be advantageous
• Proven experience in working in a matrix organisation and building diverse teams
• Developed client relationship management skills
• Strong analytical skills and proven understanding of human capital measurement and delivery of performance improvement interventions
• Professional and commercial acumen, with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Experience of organisation development and design, and facilitation of change including consultation and engagement
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
• Excellent communication, influencing, coaching and facilitation skills
• Well organised, responsive and able to work under pressure

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process