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HR Business Partner - People Team

Insights Australia and New Zealand

Sydney

Reports to CHRO Insights, APAC

Role Description

The HR Business Partner will deliver Kantar’s global, divisional / functional people agenda while working closely with colleagues globally and locally within our Centres of Excellence (CoE) and our People Operations teams. You will be part of a business partnering team delivering people strategies, solutions and processes to your client groups in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ). The role will collaborate closely with other HRBPs, be an example of what excellent looks like in terms of the employee experience and commercial excellence.

Key Responsibilities
- Partner, advise and mentor leadership and management teams in ANZ to accelerate the delivery of business agenda through an innovative, strategic and fit for purpose people agenda and solutions
- Partner the Chief People Officer and other Business Partners to develop the people strategy and implementation with your relevant client groups
- Bring a strategic lens and insight from prior experiences / leading practice and adopt a ‘business leader’ approach when driving transformations across the business
- Engage with business leaders and the wider People Team to understand challenges and areas for opportunities and translate these into relevant people initiatives
- Establish collaborative and supporting working partnerships with the CoEs and People Operations to serve as a strategic consultant to your business leaders on a range of people issues and demonstrating expert advice where required
- Delivery of talent management initiatives that are aligned with global Kantar strategy to build and maintain a strong talent pipeline while attracting, identifying and assessing talent and development opportunities to retain the right talent
- Provide advice and direction on reward philosophy to help craft business decisions, implement and embed total reward design.
- Champion diversity and drive portfolios of work that supports the business to build an inclusive environment throughout the employee journey, policies and practices and support our DEI strategy
- Partner with business leaders to develop performance, succession and career management plans by assessing the efficiency of career paths, aligning employee capabilities to the division / function’s overall strategic direction
- Improve employee experience to increase engagement within the workplace through using data from employee listening programmes, leaver surveys, other formal and informal sources
- Lead and advise on sophisticated employee relations activities, demonstrating sound judgement, a knowledge of market legislation and commercial awareness
- Develop and mentor others within the People Team to help build their capability in line with the business needs and the employees' aspirations

Role Requirements

Knowledge and Experience
- Commercially minded gained through working with commercial organisations in a HR Business Partnering capacity
- Experience of working in a global, matrixed environment
- Build strong partnership and trust with business leaders, managers, CoEs, People Operations to demonstrate strategic insights
- Strong employee experience ethos with people at the heart of the business agenda
- Understanding of how to address employee relations issues and knowledge of local market legislation
- Excellent interpersonal communication with the ability to positively influence and mentor business leaders at all levels
- Work with senior business leads to set the direction for the people plan, including anticipating business trends and aligning business strategies with people strategies
- Be curious, challenge and question, represent the employee's voice and demonstrate your expertise during discussions
- Lead difficult conversations with integrity and humility
- Driving transformation and change positively within a matrixed organisation
- Critical problem solver who uses data driven insights and decision making to confidently resolve large complicated issues and communicate decisions efficiently

Kantar Success Factors
- Leads with impact
- Owns commercial success
- Solves problems decisively
- Connects to win
- Builds great teams
- Drives lasting change
- Amplifies professional expertise

Business Partner Success Factors
- Employee engagement management
- People analytics and insight
- Organisational diagnosis and design
- Talent and performance management
- Organisational environment development
- Total rewards and recognition development
- Workforce planning

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay