HR Business Partner - Fintech & Tech Weeks Verticals

HR Business Partner - FinTech & Tech Weeks Verticals

As the HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will serve as a strategic expert, partnering with leaders to address people and organizational challenges while proactively identifying HR opportunities to help meet business goals.

You will work across the FinTech and Tech Weeks verticals, as well as supporting the Informa Festivals Central teams such as Video Content, Digital Marketing, Legal, Finance and Technology.

Working closely with the Head of HR, the HR community and functional leaders, you'll play a key role in guiding the implementation of our people strategy. You will be instrumental in driving critical programs and initiatives that shape our organization, including target operating model implementation, performance and talent management, succession planning, reward and recognition, employee engagement, organizational development, and change management.

As an HRBP, you'll provide advice and support on HR best practices and policy to colleagues and managers and manage complex employee relations issues. Collaboration will be essential, as you work alongside HR Shared Services and other HR specialists, such as Reward, Learning, and Talent Acquisition, to bring a unified HR approach to the business as part of a global team.

In your role as HRBP, you will assume the following key responsibilities, along with any additional reasonable duties as required:

• Partnering leaders - Build strategic partnerships with leaders and managers, driving development and alignment of HR consultancy services and strategic projects and programmes. Be authentic and willing to challenge leaders thinking.
• Range of work - Act as a trusted advisor on all strategic people and organization related topics, with a strong focus on talent management, performance management, organization effectiveness and optimization, change management, reward and recognition and ER.
• Forward thinking - Act as a change agent, championing new people initiatives.
• Employee relations - Provide guidance on complex employee relations issues and manage people related risks in partnership with the in-house legal team.
• Process & governance - Ensure that HR processes are executed in alignment with expectations and that process touch points are properly owned/executed.
• Coaching and empowering managers – support but enable managers to own day-to-day employee matters, coaching and providing templates and materials without being directly involved unless necessary.
• Metrics - Understand the people metrics for the verticals and any functional team working with as appropriate for the task including headcount, budget, performance and productivity, talent, attrition, spans of control, engagement etc and use data to inform HR actions and priorities.
• Workload management – organize your own workload and delivery including delivering through others, showing ownership, accountability, timeliness and anticipate and navigate through problems to deliver for our vertical customers. Escalate or flag challenges as appropriate.
• Managing/mentoring others – the HRBP will be a professional role model to more junior team members and may sponsor others delivery on tasks/projects and may have direct line management responsibility.