People Partner _ Strategic Programmes
Are you able to challenge stakeholders constructively to ensure that people's decisions align with genuine business needs and strategic objectives?
As a People Partner – Strategic Programmes, you will work closely with business leaders to provide practical, commercially focused HR support that enables high-performing teams and drives business success.
Partnering with leaders across Strategic Programmes, you'll play a key role in delivering people solutions that support workforce planning, talent acquisition, employee relations, organisational change, and capability.
You'll help ensure our people practices are aligned with business priorities while fostering an inclusive, high-performance culture.
What You'll Be Doing
- Provide proactive HR advice and guidance to leaders and managers on a wide range of people matters.
- Support workforce planning and recruitment activities to ensure the business attracts and retains the right talent.
- Partner with managers to effectively manage employee relations cases, ensuring compliance with UK employment legislation and company policies.
- Coordinate and deliver key people processes, maintaining accurate employee data and HR records.
- Contribute to organisational change initiatives, talent development, and succession planning activities.
- Use HR systems and people data to provide insights that support informed business decisions.
- Promote HR best practice and support the consistent application of policies, procedures, and people initiatives.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for a collaborative HR professional who combines strong technical knowledge with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach. You'll be confident building relationships, influencing stakeholders, and delivering practical people solutions in a fast-paced environment.
You'll bring:
- CIPD Level 5 qualification (or working towards), or equivalent HR qualification.
- Experience in an HR Generalist or HR Advisor/People Partner role.
- Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
- Experience supporting recruitment, workforce planning, and employee relations.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Strong analytical capability, including experience using HR systems (such as SuccessFactors) and interpreting people data.
- Effective communication and coaching skills, with the confidence to support and influence managers.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, project-based or matrix environment is desirable.
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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