Senior HR Business Partner

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The Company

Gentrack provides leading utilities across the world with innovative cleantech solutions. The global pace of change is accelerating, and utilities need to rebuild for a more sustainable future. Working with some of the world's biggest energy and water companies, as well as innovative challenger brands, we are helping companies reshape what it means to be a utilities business. We are driven by our passion to create positive impact. That is why utilities rely on us to drive innovation, deliver great customer experiences, and secure profits. Together, we are renewing utilities for the sustainable era.

Our Values and Culture

Colleagues at Gentrack are one big team, working together to drive efficiency in two of the planet's most precious resources, energy and water. We are passionate people who want to drive change through technology and believe in making a difference. Our values drive decisions and how we interact and communicate with customers, partners, shareholders, and each other. Our core values are:

• Respect for the planet
• Respect for our customers and
• Respect for each other

Gentrackers are a group of smart thinkers and dedicated doers, outside of work we are musicians, travel fanatics, artists, sailors, family folk, environmentalists, and sport lovers. We are a diverse team who love our work and the people we work with and who collaborate and inspire each other to deliver creative solutions that make our customers successful.

We are a team that shares knowledge, asks questions, raises the bar, and are expert advisers. At Gentrack we care about doing honest business that is good for not just customers but families, communities, and the planet. Gentrackers continuously look for a better way and drive quality into everything they do.

This is a truly exciting time to join Gentrack with a clear growth strategy and a world class leadership team working to fulfil Gentrack's global aspirations by having the most talented people, an inspiring culture, and a people centric business.

The Opportunity

Gentrack is currently hiring a new Senior People Experience Business Partner for UK/ Europe.

The role of the Senior PX Business Partner is to work with the PX EMEA Director and the wider regional and global team. Primarily responsible to partner with the Engineering team in location + corporates - the senior leadership and the wider engineering group (approx. 100 people) as the main client base.

The People Experience Team is about talent attraction and development, career mobility and opportunity, great communications, pride, and recognition and finally being transparent but fair while holding true to the high bar on talent.

You will leverage your experience working in People Experience functions to implement creative commercial solutions, following industry best practice. You will work with the rest of the global People Experience organisation that has teams located in Gentrack's centres in New Zealand, Australia, and India

The Specifics

• Provide strategic direction and insights on the organisational design - coaching and building change plans to manage - mitigating risk and delivering seamless and effective change.
• Bringing commercial PX insights, aligned with company financials to ensure cost management and optimisation in line with business growth - partnering with the regional senior leadership team, finance and providing commercial insights and challenge as appropriate via the Monthly and Quarterly business reviews.
• Coaching senior leaders - acting as a confidante, advisor, and coach
• Provide strategic direction, reviews and expertise in talent development, future proofed succession planning and organisational design.
• Assist the PX Director for the region to advise of country specific legislations and market changes that should be considered as part of the regional strategy.
• Liaise closely with the Talent Acquisition Business Partners to align on the sourcing strategy and needs of your client group - ensuring that we are proactively and strategically resource planning.
• Lead on annual cycle deliverables for your function (Year-end/ talent reviews/ engagement surveys/ functional and regional leadership development programs)

What we're looking for (you don't need to be a guru at all, we're looking forward to coaching and collaborating with you):

• Substantial experience as a People Experience Practitioner in a relevant industry.
• You are passionate about delivering market leading people experience to our stakeholders.
• You are a people person; you get a buzz out of seeing your teams achieve their goals and building up individuals so that they can grow and progress.
• Advanced change management skills to coach business and change through successful change.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills -you can garner the trust of the Senior Leadership Team member as well as the broader team.
• You love data and combine it with your experience and intuition to solve problems.
• You're an excellent communicator and can adjust your style so that you're as relatable to team members

• Bachelor's Degree in any career stream is preferred but not required.

What we offer in return:

• Personal growth - in leadership, commercial acumen and technical excellence
• To be part of a global, winning high growth organization - with a career path to match
• A vibrant, culture full of people passionate about transformation and making a difference -with a one team, collaborative ethos
• A competitive reward package that truly awards our top talent
• A chance to make a true impact on society and the planet

Gentrack want to work with the best people, no matter their background. So, if you are passionate about learning new things and keen to join the mission, you will fit right in.

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