Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Join Buro Happold as a Senior HR Business Partner and thrive in a team that values mutual responsibility and creating a meaningful legacy.
This role offers an exciting opportunity to serve as a business partner to our newly integrated UK business, which constitutes 50% of our overall practice. With around 1500 employees and generating over £230 million in revenue, our Partnership structure means you’ll collaborate closely with our Partners as business leaders. As a trusted advisor, you’ll provide HR guidance aligned with our policies, procedures, and HR lifecycle events.
You’ll work alongside HR colleagues and HR centres of excellence to implement our people strategy, ensuring Buro Happold remains an employer of choice. Your timely advice will support talent development, succession planning, performance management, talent acquisition, and excellent employee relations.
We are looking for someone with a proven ability to thrive in diverse, complex, and internationally dispersed matrix environments. The ideal candidate will have an excellent track record of anticipating and addressing the HR needs of a growing business.
Here at Buro Happold, expect the exceptional.
From the projects you will work on to the clients we work with. From career-defining opportunities to an inclusive and diverse practice where we all contribute to a more equitable world. From our reputation to our relationships. Wherever your Buro Happold career takes you, it’ll be anything but ordinary.
Your next role
Join us and be surrounded by exceptional opportunities in an environment alive with innovation and possibility. Your new team has a willingness and curiosity to see possibility and potential in everything – from the most iconic projects to our everyday conversations.
We are looking for a passionate candidate who can inspire and motivate at every level.
Buro Happold has a clear strategic plan, excellent learning culture and entrepreneurial mindset that will allow you to thrive.
You’ll be part of something bigger than us all where sustainability, equity, social and performance outcomes matter. Buro Happold is committed to doing the right thing, even when that’s the hardest thing. This is a genuine opportunity to make impact - and leave real legacy.
Key duties:
- Offering guidance and direction on general HR matters to support the business leaders of the UK+ division in fostering a high-performance culture.
- Successfully translating the people strategy into actionable plans, with a key emphasis on equity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.
- Building relationships and collaborating with leaders, managers, and other key stakeholders to ensure HR strategies align with business objectives.
- Collaborating with leadership teams to continuously assess and enhance the organisational design, development, and functionality of technical and business support groups.
- Supporting leadership teams in establishing clear succession plans for all key roles within the business and developing long-term tactical and personal development plans to achieve these goals.
- Take ownership of the UK+ HR data, ensuring the highest standards in data quality, metrics, and analysis. Deliver these within the required timeframes and provide actionable insights to inform business decisions.
- Offer support, guidance, and coaching in managing people and communicating throughout the performance management process.
- Deliver quality and timely advice to managers and staff on Employee Relations issues, local employment legislation, and best practices as needed.
Your skills and experience:
- An experienced HR Partner who can draw on a broad HR generalist skill set with a track record of influencing leaders in a complex international, matrix context.
- A proven record of delivering impactful equity, employee engagement, diversity, and inclusion solutions.
- Confidence in employee relations/law with expertise in solving complex people related legal and reputational risk cases.
- Calm and confident under pressure with a pragmatic solution focussed approach.
- A strong grasp on the challenges of working within a wholly owned professional services matrixed organisation.
- A strong focus on interpreting people data to provide insights, with an emphasis on using AI solutions.
- Experience in change management and working in a high growth environment, whilst maintain the employer brand and culture.
What we offer:
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.
- Attractive salary and benefits package including, car allowance, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
- Generous company pension scheme.
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
- 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
- A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
At Buro Happold, everyone else’s extraordinary is just our everyday.
Apply today and be a part of our legacy.
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A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application.
