Human Resources Business Partner Support

This rewarding role will be supporting our Stations, Safety and Programme Management teams alongside the HR Business Partner across Central Route.

In this role you'll deliver proactive and professional HR support to empower the HR Business Partner team in driving impactful HR solutions, bringing the people strategy to life for the organisations we support. This role will primarily support the Stations, Safety and Programme Management teams, and the day to day working location may change dependent on business needs.

We require someone with strong communication skills, particularly with experience of detailed reporting analysis. It will also require someone who can use their initiative to look beyond the day-to-day requirements and suggest ways we can improve what we currently do that will support our Maintenance Team. Employee Relations knowledge would be helpful, alongside working knowledge of HR processes and policies and how they are applied.

About the role (External)

What will you be doing day to day?

As a Human Resource Business Partner Support you will be:

· Providing proactive, professional HR Support to the HR Business Partner team/s and the business to facilitate the delivery of value add HR and the delivery of the people/HR plans.

· Supporting HR Business Partner teams in Talent Management, Workforce and Succession Planning and performance planning, maintaining appropriate data within the associated process.

· Providing support for Organisation Change programmes, through the full development and implementation phases.

· Providing project management support to the HR Business Partner team, tracking, measuring and communicating through the project timeline.

· Supporting the associated HR Business Partner team/s with research, reporting requirements, analysis and production of reports to support the implementation of HR initiatives.

· Seeking, identifying and developing solutions to continuously improve the HR support to the business.

· Maintaining up to date professional HR knowledge to input into the development of both operational and value add HR initiatives.

· Taking ownership for delivery of assigned work within HR programmes/initiatives.

· Supporting the associated HR Business Partner team/s with ad hoc administrative and operational HR activity.

· Demonstrates strong customer service skills.

· Experience of working within a large, complex and fast moving organisation.

· High level of accuracy and attention to detail.

· Strong written and verbal communication skills.

· Strong time management, organisation and prioritisation skills and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.

· Resilient, Adaptable and Flexible.

· IT literate, strong excel, word and PowerPoint knowledge.

· Experience of event coordination and facilitation.

· Research and analytical skills.

· Strong relationship building skills.

· Experience of supporting the delivery of HR initiatives and projects.

It's not mandatory to have the below, but it would be desirable to have:

• CIPD Qualified or relevant HR Support experience.

• Graduate Calibre

Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year.

Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter. When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions.

We're continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation which is representative of the passengers we serve. To do this, it's essential we become a more open, diverse and inclusive organisation, harnessing the skills and expertise of all our people and attracting the best talent to help us have a safe, accessible railway for everyone. We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone.

Our Route

Central route is at the heart of Britain's railway. The route covers a major part of the national rail network and is a key commuter line in and out of Birmingham, with hundreds of thousands of passengers, and thousands of tonnes of freight carried within our route each week. Within our route is the Chiltern Main Line between London Marylebone and the West Midlands, the Snow Hill line from Stratford-upon-Avon to Worcester, the Cross City line in Birmingham, and lines to other cities including Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall, and Oxford.

We are home to Birmingham New Street station, the busiest station outside of London with more than 170,000 passengers using it every day.