HR Business Partner
Redhill, Surrey (with travel to our other company sites)

If you’re a CIPD qualified HR Business Partner who can build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, this is an exciting opportunity to make a difference with a company that has a strong social purpose.

About us:

Our vision is to be an outstanding water company delivering service excellence and we believe our people are integral to helping us achieve our goal to ensure that we deliver a high-quality service that is reliable and resilient. Our plan for the future is to ensure the services we provide are fair, future-proof, good for the planet and utilise smart technology. Water plays a role in all our lives. It’s an essential service and one that we are proud to deliver to our customers and communities.

We don’t just want to be proud of what we do, we also want to celebrate how we do it. We are an inclusive environment that values community, and your contribution to delivering our Business Plan over the next 5 years and our 5 pledges to our customers is vital. We aren’t just recruiting for experience - potential, fit and values are fundamental to building and developing our team. We want you to develop, grow and succeed and enjoy working at SES.

SES Water supplies 160 million litres of fresh water to over 735,000 people across Kent, Surrey and South London every day. We are part of the East Surrey Holdings Group and have subsidiaries SES Water Services (SES Home Services and SES Business Water), Allmat Building Supplies and Advanced Minerals.

Why you should join our team:

You’ll become part of our friendly HR Team, who actively encourage each other to explore new ideas and use their expertise to implement fresh approaches and solutions.

This is a new role in our business, so you will have the chance to really make it your own and make an impact in a number of areas, including change management, organisational design, employee engagement and talent analytics.

You will also have the opportunity to get involved with exciting projects, including the delivery of our reward framework and diversity and inclusion project, making a difference throughout our business.

The role:

- Salary of up to £45,000 per annum DOE
- Up to 10% employer contribution towards Aviva's Group Personal Pension Plan
- Free on-site parking or in local area
- Working hours: 37 hours per week

As an HR Business Partner, you will ensure the delivery of a consistent, risk-based, business-focused HR service and provide advice to line managers on the full spectrum of employment issues.

In this important role, you will help us to deliver our People Plan while ensuring that SES Water remains a great place to work.

Reporting to the Head of People, you will also:

- Contribute to the development of managerial and leadership capability
- Increase the effectiveness of people management across SES
- Support managers in developing effective workforce structures and succession plans
- Help to build strong talent pipelines and manage recruitment activity up to management level
- Interpret people data and analyse figures on employee turnover, sickness-related absence and cost per hire
- Line manage a Talent and HR Administrator
- Visit other company sites and subsidiaries

Other organisations may call this role HRBP, Human Resources Business Partner, Senior HR Generalist, HR Generalist, Senior ER Advisor, Employee Relations Advisor, or Senior HR Advisor.

About you:

At SES Water, we recruit based on potential, values and fit, rather than just experience and qualifications. We’re seeking a self-assured HR Business Partner who can build rapport and maintain strong working relationships. You will also need:

- To be versatile in your approach to building relationships with different people across the business
- Experience as an HR Business Partner
- Supervisory experience and the ability to coach and lead others
- Knowledge of employee relations and strategic HR best practice
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- A CIPD Level 5 qualification
- A full driving licence

Experience of developing a Reward strategy and job evaluation framework would be desirable but not essential.

The benefits:

- Life assurance
- Bonus scheme
- 23 days’ holiday per year, increasing to 27 with service
- Give as you earn scheme
- Financial education, savings and personal loans through Neyber
- Aqualibrium - our wellbeing programme including Mental Health First Aiders and free annual comprehensive health checks
- Simply Health Cash Plan, Surgical Choices and Rewards
- Confidential crisis support, counselling and legal advice
- One day paid volunteering a year
- Discounts with our subsidiaries and Garage

This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit, who SES Water work in partnership with. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency. We are both equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment.

What’s next?

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