Careers at Burges Salmon

We have a great opportunity for an HR Business Partnerto join our Bristol office on a fixed term contract for eighteen months to cover maternity leave. The role will enable you to join our award winning People team and make a real impact to the firm and our people. We're open to discussing full or part time working arrangements in an organisation committed to excellence, recognised by the award of IIP Platinum accreditation.

Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm which delivers the best mix of advice, service and value. We pride ourselves on delivering an excellent standard of legal and business advice to our clients, which has led to many of the firm's practice areas and sectors winning awards and recognition as best in class.

As the main point of contact within the people team for a number of designated legal and business services teams, you will work alongside Heads of Departments and others supporting them in the delivery of our strategy.

You will advise our people on all aspects of personal development, wellbeing, performance management, reward and recognition as well as working on a range of exciting people related projects, ensuring we continue to be a great place to work.

You will have strong communication skills, good commercial acumen and be able to work collaboratively with people across the organisation. You will have at least 3 years' experience as a Business Partner and be CIPD qualified (or equivalent) with the determination necessary to work successfully in a fast-paced environment contributing to the delivery of our ambitious strategy.

Previous experience within a professional services environment is preferable, although not essential.

Our six core values - Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the 'working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have been shortlisted in the 'Client Management Innovation' and 'CSR Innovation - Social' categories in the Legal Week Innovation Awards and listed in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women in 2021. We were awarded both 'UK Law Firm of the Year' and 'Energy & Infrastructure Team of the Year' at the Legal Week British Legal Awards and 'Highly Commended' in the CSR Innovation - Multi-Firm Projects at the Legal Innovation Awards in 2020.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

For more information regarding the role or the interview process please contact Jenna Hazel (Resourcing Business Partner) on 0117 307 6060 or email jenna.hazel@burges-salmon.com

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This vacancy will close when sufficient applications have been received.