HR Business Partner

  • TransUnion
  • Leeds, Yorkshire
  • Dec 16, 2022
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

About TransUnion:TransUnion is a global information and insights company which provides solutions that help create economic opportunity, great experiences, and personal empowerment for hundreds of millions of people in more than 30 countries. We call this Information for Good . We are a leading credit reference agency, and we offer specialist services in fraud, identity, and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across a wide variety of sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government, and insurance.

What You'll Bring

We're looking to recruit a HR Business Partner, acting as a key partner primarily to our Sales and Marketing business leaders, with the aim of driving our people and organisational initiatives, which support the achievement of our business goals and objectives.

A key part of this role is the cultivation of a culture, which enables leaders to create the right environment where people thrive and feel included, valued and respected.

The role provides the opportunity to work at a senior level to deliver measurable benefits to people performance, but in return requires strong communication and consultative skills, commercial acumen and a good level of generalist HR knowledge and expertise.

Key Responsibilities

  • Delivering exceptional customer service by building strong, effective, proactive relationships with customers and colleagues up to and including Executive stakeholders.
  • Consulting with business area leaders and managers to develop a thorough understanding of operations and people related issues, and using this insight to inform organisation design, resource and talent planning and other people related initiatives and change programmes.
  • Work with business area leaders to deliver people related initiatives and change programmes, drawing on the expertise and support of wider HR team where required.
  • Providing expert advice on a full range of people related queries and issues, identifying and escalating risks or concerns where required and coaching the HR Advisors and rest of the HR Team where appropriate with more complex issues.
  • Coaching and empowering business area leaders and managers to perform their people related responsibilities more effectively .
  • Providing the HR Leadership team with operational or project support across all HR disciplines to ensure that initiatives are reviewed from the employee and manager perspective and are implemented in the most impactful way and in line with HR Strategy and operational plans.
  • Operating as a HR thought leader; bringing new thinking, suggesting new or improved ways of working, and keeping up to date with and applying best practice.
  • Involvement with cyclical activities including performance review activity, salary and bonus review, talent management reviews etc.

Skills & Experience:

  • Recent demonstrable experience of partnering with Sales and Marketing business areas.
  • Good breadth and depth of HR and employment law knowledge with experience of handling complex ER issues.
  • Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills with ability to build and maintain strong trusting relationships at all levels.
  • Ability to apply sound judgement and expertise in complex, ambiguous and/or unusual situations Excellent organisational skills with the ability to multi-task and flexibility to meet changing priorities.
  • Good coaching skills - stakeholders as well as other members of the HR Team .
  • Proactive and energetic approach to work.
  • A positive outlook when faced with obstacles.
  • Experience of working in a large corporate, or global, business and ideally in a matrix environment, ability to work in a stand-alone role and confidence to engage with other members of the HR Team from across the global organisation.
  • Deep knowledge of redundancy and acquisition and/or integration activities (including TUPE transfer) .
  • Experience of working with Commission and Sales Incentive plans, ideally with input into design.

What's In It For you?

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward thinking global business underpinned with a focus on employee well-being and engagement.

As well as a competitive salary and bonus scheme our benefits package starts with 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service), a generous contributory pension scheme, private health care and a whole host of other employee lifestyle benefits.

That is in addition to a variety of physical, mental, and financial fitness well-being programmes such as lunchtime yoga, mindfulness app access and our diversity forums.

Interview & Hiring Process

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you will get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in person interview your recruiter will inform of this.

Reasonable Adjustments

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend an interview with us, please detail this on your application.