Job Description

About the role:

We have a great opportunity for an individual to join our Human Resources team in Birmingham as a HR Business Partner (HRBP). Within this role you will provide tailored support and partner with our Business Services teams playing both a strategic and hands-on role in delivering exceptional service. Working closely with our Business Services professionals throughout the entire employee life cycle, you will act as a trusted adviser to managers. By leveraging data, industry insights, and external knowledge, you will offer guidance, advice, and coaching to implement the firm’s people strategy and plans effectively.

Working as part of our wider HR function, you will ensure that our HR practices align with the firm’s culture, regulatory landscape, and business goals, while fostering a high-performance and inclusive workplace. As the HRBP, you should act as the central driver into and out of your group for the wider function to provide a cohesive, fully-rounded service, for example connecting recruitment with talent, succession with diversity etc.

You will be required to travel between London and Birmingham to fully support your client groups and the wider HR team

About you:

You will bring at least two years’ experience as an HR Business Partner, ideally within the professional services sector, with a proven track record of driving effective development, employee relations, and reward policies. Confident in challenging constructively and influencing decisions, you will guide actions that deliver the best outcomes for the firm. With a passion for quality, capability building, and investing in people, you will apply your excellent and up-to-date knowledge of employment legislation to provide pragmatic, results-focused solutions to HR issues. Strong communication skills will enable you to build trusted relationships and influence at all levels, supported by exceptional planning and organisational ability. A commercial mindset, combined with proficiency in IT tools such as Excel and PowerPoint, will ensure you deliver a high-quality, strategic HR service.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 25 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com

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