HR Business Partner - Technology

£61,000 - £65,000 (depending on experience)

We want you to love what you do and feel supported to do your best work.

• Competitive salary and pension (OS contribute up to 12.07%)
• Performance related bonus (where applicable)
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Enhanced family leave, including paid partner leave
• Learning and development support, coaching and mentoring
• Free subscription to OS Maps and access to wellbeing support
• Volunteering leave and matched fundraising

OS conducts pre-employment checks for anyone made an offer of employment, including identity, right to work, employment history and criminal record checks (via Disclosure & Barring Services (DBS)).

Some of our roles may require additional security vetting. We will advise candidates during the recruitment process if additional vetting may be required for that specific role.

This role requires the right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, OS cannot provide visa sponsorship for this position.

Are you an experienced HR Business Partner who naturally works as part of the team, sharing ownership of outcomes rather than acting as a consultant? Do you have the strategic insight and the practical, hands-on approach to help a large technology function shape its future? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Technology function brings together around 400 people across engineering, delivery, architecture, research and AI. Over the next 18 months, the function is delivering our Tech 2030 strategy, which includes evolving our Enterprise, Geospatial and Customer platforms and services, moving away from legacy estate towards a holistic architecture, and building the technical capability we need for the future.

As HR Business Partner, you'll work alongside the Technology Senior Leadership Team as a trusted thought partner and coach. You'll take a real sense of ownership of their goals and outcomes. You'll help leaders step back from the detail when they need to, bring an external perspective and constructive challenge, and then roll up your sleeves to make things happen. This role is about implementing change, not just recommending it.

• Strategic partnering: Partner with Technology leaders to turn the Tech 2030 strategy and business outcomes into clear people priorities and plans, representing Technology within the People Team and the People Team within Technology.
• Strategic workforce planning: Lead discussions on strategic workforce planning and capability development. Get hands-on with the numbers, modelling the future shape and size of the function and managing in year headcount alongside the Finance Business Partner.
• Culture and change: Help shape employee engagement, culture, mindset, practices and principles. Support the ongoing embedding of a services model that encourages collaboration and shared outcomes with Product, Data and Customer teams.
• Leadership development: Provide one-to-one coaching to the Technology leadership team and work with the wider People Team to help leaders role model OS leadership behaviours and mindsets.
• Operational grip and insight: Use business and HR metrics, analysis and insight to inform decisions, evaluate the impact of people interventions and help the business realise the benefits it planned for. Follow up on actions and help keep Technology focused and on track.
• Employee relations: Work alongside leaders on complex and challenging employee relations issues embedding the confidence to lead with early and constructive intervention when issues first arise. Focus on business outcomes, manage risk, and handle every case in a human way.
• Building capability and insight in the People Team: Work alongside and coach HR Advisers and collaborate with the People Team Centres of Excellence to deliver on business and cultural priorities.
• Cross-business contribution: Bring flexibility and agility to wider People team priorities and cross-business challenges as they come up.

This role will be based in Southampton and will require you to spend at least 4 days a week collaborating face-to-face with colleagues.

• Clear the path - Cut the noise. Simplify. Move at pace
• Seek the story - Listen. Understand. Speak up
• Do what matters - Focus on value

Our principles unite us in delivering our Data & Destinations strategy with more simplicity, more clarity, and renewed momentum for each other and for our customers.

They're here to create more good days, and fewer harder ones but only if each one of us plays our part.

Business Partnerships, Change Management, Employee Relations, Human Resource Metrics, Human Resources (HR), Organizational Culture Change, People Analytics, People Transformation, Strategic Human Resources Leadership, Talent Management