We're looking for a HR Business Partner (known internally as HR
Business Manager) to join our Human Resources team, based in Leeds but
with regular travel across our 4 UK offices.
You will be joining our supportive and friendly HR team who are
focussed on providing the best possible service to our clients, both
internal and external. You'll be CIPD qualified and an established HR
Business Partner or an Assistant HR BP who is ready to take the next
step in your career. We're a global law firm so you'll ideally have
experience of working in the legal sector or wider professional services.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law
firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business
and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business
solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading
corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and
sovereign nations.
With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four
continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global
influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North
America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In
the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.
The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and supportive
working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK
offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and DEI
programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support
individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal
and professional goals.
Our Team and What We Do
Our UK HR team consists of our core generalist HR team (responsible
for our UK fee earners, support staff and secretarial staff
populations), Projects, Learning & Development, Recruitment,
Payroll, and Rewards & Benefits.
Our Opportunity
You will be responsible for the support departments for the UK and
will work closely with the office, chiefs and directors to provide HR
advice, implement HR policies and deliver HR plans. Due to the busy
and proactive nature of this team, you will begin building lasting
relationships with leadership, employees and colleagues from the
outset, so you must have good interpersonal skills and be eager to be
a valued part of a team. You'll also be proactive in responding to
challenges in the employment markets and keeping up to date with new
labour laws.
You'll be forward thinking, using HR metrics to improve efficiencies,
promoting employee engagement and developing HR action plans.
You
You'll have experience of dealing with complex ER cases, as well as
organisational development, talent management, change management and
stakeholder management.
You'll work closely with leadership and therefore must be confident
in dealing with internal and external stakeholders and clients and
have the ability to drive change in a partnership, whilst juggling key
stakeholder priorities. Confident, with the ability to challenge
constructively, combined with a level of resilience. Building
relationships with stakeholders is a key element to this role.
You'll be commercially aware with great business acumen, proactive in
adding value to the business, with a positive can-do attitude. You
will be used to working in a busy environment where you have to deal
with multiple competing demands and tight deadlines. You'll also have
strong financial acumen and the ability to understand and interpret
complex budgetary and performance data to influence decisions.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please
visit our website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first
instance. We are unable to process applications sent directly by
email. Please complete an online application. We will be reviewing
applications and interviewing on an ongoing basis. No agency CVs
accepted at this time.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is
representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications
regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,
age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental
status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable
adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is
inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant
data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.
