HR Business Partner
Permanent Full Time
Location: Dublin 12 / Hybrid working (3 days onsite)
Salary: €45k - €50k Approx. plus VHI Healthcare, Company Pension, 10% Bonus and 22 days AL (Increasing AL with service)
Due to growth within the business, this successful multinational organisation are seeking to onboard a HR Business Partner to join our team. This is a hands-on role, providing consistent and proactive HR support to colleagues and managers across multiple sites.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as trusted consultant to management on all employee matters by providing a professional and credible HR service.
- Lead and manage complex employee relations cases, including investigations, disciplinaries, grievances and appeals, ensuring fair, consistent and legally compliant outcomes.
- Advise and coach line managers on ER and people best practice, applying employment legislation and company policies effectively.
- Identify ER trends across the business, using insights to reduce risk and improve people practices.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of people processes, including contracts, changes, case records and documentation.
- Support managers with absence management, including long-term sickness, attendance reviews and return-to-work processes.
- Provide guidance on performance management, including capability processes, improvement plans and difficult performance conversations.
- Partner with HR management to ensure that HR policies and practices are rolled out and implemented appropriately across the business.
- Partner with leaders to drive employee engagement initiatives that enhance motivation, retention and performance.
- Lead and promote well-being strategies aligned with the needs of retail teams and the wider business.
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders on creating inclusive, high-performing retail teams.
- Champion positive employee experience across the full life-cycle.
- Support the delivery of people communications, ensuring messages are clear, timely and aligned with organisational goals.
- Act as a conduit between HR and the business, ensuring feedback flows both ways.
- Partner with Retail Leadership Teams to align and roll out people projects and initiatives.
- Design and deliver training for line managers on people management fundamentals, including ER, absence, performance, well-being and other core people pillars.
- Support the development of management capability through coaching, toolbox talks and practical guidance.
- Maintain people systems, ensuring employee data is accurate, compliant and kept up to date at all times.
- Report on metrics across the business as required.
- Use data to identify trends, risks and opportunities, supporting informed decision-making and continuous improvement
Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum of 3-5 year's experience in a similar role, with demonstrated hands-on experience managing complex employee relations in a retail or fast-paced environment.
- Bachelors degree in Human Resources or related field.
- Professional certifications such as CIPD.
- Ideally, previous experience in a similar role, preferably within a large organisation is a plus.
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- High proficiency in all Microsoft Office software also essential (Excel, PPT).
