People and Culture (HR) Business Partner

The Opportunity

This role forms part of Ashurst's UK/EMEA People & Culture (P&C) business partnering team and contributes to the firm's success by providing advice, coaching and support across a broad range of P&C matters spanning the employee lifecycle. Working in collaboration with P&C divisional leads and function heads, this role will focus on enabling partners/business leaders (across a dedicated client group) to effectively manage and support their people, create high levels of employee engagement and build an inclusive, high performing culture.

This role will provide operational and strategic business partnering to a dedicated client group and respective Practice Heads/Partners in the London and Glasgow offices, providing advice, coaching and support across a broad range of P&C matters spanning the employee lifecycle.

Working in collaboration with Global P&C divisional leads and Centres of Excellence, you will focus on enabling partners/business leaders to effectively manage and support their people with a focus on developing and retaining talent, employee engagement and wellbeing to drive a culture of high performance.

The role will have accountability for the delivery of programs and initiatives aligned to the P&C and business area strategy and supporting large scale change programs across the firm, working collaboratively across the P&C partnering team, the wider P&C function and key stakeholders.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working. Frequent travel to our London office will be required.

A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page

We are interested in hearing from HR generalists who have:

• Significant experience in business partnering at a senior stakeholder level, able to navigate through complexity and ambiguity, as well as landing and supporting change and transformation programmes in a fast-paced, complex professional services environment.
• Strengths in Employee Relations and a good understanding of the many different responsibilities of the wider People & Culture function (e.g. Reward & Benefits, Learning & Organisational Development, Talent Acquisition, Resourcing etc).
• Demonstrable experience of supporting a tech workforce.
• The ability to think and operate strategically, operationally and creatively with a down to earth and pragmatic approach to people solutions.
• Superior stakeholder management - ability to act as a trusted advisor to Practice Heads and their leadership teams, coaching and developing capability, demonstrating the confidence, resilience and maturity to challenge and push back as required in order to make an immediate and sustainable impact.
• Experience of working in a fast paced and changing work environment.

What makes Ashurst a great place to work?

We offer you all the things you should expect from an international law firm, some of which include:

• competitive remuneration with the flexibility to reward high performance;
• flexible working;
• corporate health plans;
• a global professional development offering for all employees; and
• an industry-leading programme that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

We are committed to delivering positive impacts to our communities through our Social Impact programme.

We aim to recruit, retain and promote the best people from the widest possible talent pools. We are committed to offering a safe and welcoming environment for all employees to ensure they are supported to work at their best.

Beyond this, what sets Ashurst apart from others is our global strength, our drive to innovate and collaborate, and our commitment to excellence. It is these values that make Ashurst a unique place to work.

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