People Business Partner - AU & APM

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

12/22/2024

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are looking for a People Business Partner to join our growing team in the UK and support our Global Architecture & Urbanism (A&U) and Advanced Process Manufacturing (APM) divisions. The People Business Partner acts as the focal point for all people related matters for their portfolio and will manage all HR strategic and operations HR support across their area. The position will establish trusted and influential relationships with members of the senior management team to provide thought leadership, consultation, advice, and co-ordinate HR operational excellence. This role will also play an instrumental role in leading the people change required for the impending transformation. Another key focus of this role is to serve as a partner to the business to deliver value added service to management and employees that reflect the business objectives of the organization. This position can be located in any Arcadis office within with UK with a preference for London or Manchester.

In more detail, the People Business Partner will be a strong collaborator with both managers and employees to help drive strategy and outcomes within your business unit. You will be a key facilitator and HR knowledge expert during the execution and delivery of HR Programs the business. The ideal candidate will be solution oriented with a strong ability to partner with the business to deliver client focused results and practical solutions.

• Demonstrated ability to develop strong working relationships with all levels of management and employees
• Proven ability to analyze data to solve practical problems and handle a variety of variables in situation where limited guidance exists
• Promote awareness and application of the group's key people programs and help create Arcadis as a best place to work
• Participate as part of the assigned leadership teams contributing across People and non-people areas
• Proven ability to lead and support change management activities
• Foster a culture of positive employee relations and engagement in the business in order to increase retention
• Ensure regular employee listening is conducted and followed-up with adequate action plans through Arcadis Your Voice
• Support training, development and coaching culture across the business
• Ensure all annual People processes such as performance management, talent review, salary review and salary benchmarking are delivered
  
  

This role will be reporting to the Global Strategic People Business Partner, Architecture & Urbanism.

Qualifications & Experience:

The candidate should have an academic degree and a progressive human resources experience including significant experience in business partnering roles and relevant experience in a complex environment. Broad international experience and understand the complexity of leading people issues across borders preferred.

Other required experience and competencies for this role:

• A degree in Human Resources or related experience
• Strong consulting, coaching and presentation skills
• High level communication skills
• Sound business acumen
• Stakeholder management and the maturity to deal with senior management
• Having a broad knowledge of all major components of People related functions, employee/labor relations, management of change, diversity, compensation, benefits and Talent development
• Good knowledge of leading HR industry initiatives
• Ability to support and drive change
• Ability to work in a dynamic and demanding environment
  
  

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.