Senior People Business Partner & Employee Relations Lead

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Job Description

Come Join Us

Join a global professional services leader and become part of a team of over 11,000 diverse professionals across five continents dedicated to solving the world's biggest challenges across energy, transport, utilities and urbanization. Established in 1928, GHD is wholly owned by its people, leading through a commitment to creating sustainable solutions worldwide.

The Role

Are you ready to drive transformative change and shape the future of our business? GHD, a global leader in professional services, is seeking an experienced and strategic-minded individual to join our team as a Senior People Business Partner & Employee Relations Lead.

In this role, you will serve as a commercial strategic business partner, enabling our business to achieve its performance and growth ambitions. You'll support the UK People Leader in delivering transformation programs and projects, with a focus on shaping the Employee Relations approach for the region. Your expertise will be crucial in leading complex employee relations matters, influencing business leaders, and driving the execution of critical projects to support our EMEA and Global people plans.

You'll report to the Regional People Leader and collaborate closely with business leaders, line managers, Centres of Excellence (COE), legal teams, and other members of the EMEA and Global people team to develop integrated people solutions aligned with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with leadership teams to understand business priorities and talent needs, implementing effective people strategies to build a high-performance culture.
• Leading EMEA's employee experience strategy, embedding a culture of inclusion and corporate social responsibility.
• Providing coaching, support, and advice to leaders and employees, designing and delivering people programs and projects to drive accountability and engagement.
• Handling complex employee relation issues, mediating conflicts, and providing expert advice on challenging people issues.
• Leading Employee Relations activity for the region, aligning policies, processes, and documentation with desired culture and legislative requirements.
• Leading complex change projects, proposing commercial consultation strategies to achieve business goals while ensuring compliance.
• Building relationships with external counterparts and stakeholders to identify innovation and improvement opportunities.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Proven ability to influence and develop relationships with senior business leaders.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Comfortable working across matrixed organization structures and collaborating with global teams.
• Experience leading transformation and change projects, including handling complex legislative requirements.
• Specialist knowledge of employment law and employee relations matters.
• Proven experience in business partnering and change management.
• Good working knowledge of organization design and development.
• Experience with TUPE, acquisition, and integration processes.

ABOUT US

Who We Are

GHD is a global professional services company that leads through engineering, architecture, and construction expertise. We are an employee-owned company with over 11,000 diverse and skilled individuals, across more than 200 offices spanning five continents.

The Power of Commitment is our brand promise. It's what makes us different. We are bound to our stated vision and determination to address humanity's most urgent needs: to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.

Let's put your ideas into action.

If you see the world differently and are driven by a desire to make real change, together we'll make it happen. Everybody at GHD has their own commitment, and we're here to support yours.

Your success is our success, and together we'll make a lasting impact on our world for generations to come.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.

Inclusion is hugely important to us and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wide variety of benefits to support you, including: 24 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family-friendly flexible working. We will advocate for your professional development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery.

Our Pledge to You
At GHD, we don't just believe in the power of commitment, we live and breathe it every day.

That's why we pledge to empower our people to make a positive impact. Combining our deep technical expertise with the capabilities of our clients and partners, we respond to some of the most complex challenges facing our planet today.

See where your commitment could take you.

That's the #PowerOfCommitment

If you're passionate about driving organizational excellence and shaping a culture of innovation and inclusivity, apply now to join our team at GHD!

Interested? Apply now.