Hr Business Partner

A fantastic opportunity to join us as a Senior HR Business Partner. This role can be based in any of our regional offices and we offer hybrid working.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm. With 79 offices in 45 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.

As the Senior HR Business Partner for your client groups, a key facilitator and a driver of change, you will work in partnership with the business to define and deliver strategic people solutions aligned to business priorities. A trusted and experienced Business Partner, you bring commercial and pragmatic thinking and extensive HR expertise to your role as trusted advisor to senior business leaders.

In this role, you can expect to get involved in a variety of work including
Working in close partnership with our HR CoEs, you'll be responsible for delivering well thought through people solutions aligned to business strategy and focused on employee experience. You'll lead on the design, development and delivery of your client groups' People Plans in partnership with business leaders and HR CoEs. Using data insights to facilitate decision-making, set priorities and measure results. You'll deliver key HR cyclical activity for your client groups (e.g performance cycle) in partnership with the business, ensuring outcomes are in line with firmwide strategy.

About You

We will invest in your ongoing training and development to support your professional goals and help you to thrive in your role from day one. Our opportunities are open to all suitably qualified applicants, so to be considered for this role, you must meet the following skills and experience:
Strong relationship development skills and client service approach, bringing credibility and influence to senior business stakeholders through confident demonstration of expertise.
Proven track record of driving forward an HR agenda in line with business strategy from diagnostic through to designing and delivering solutions.
Strong HR and business acumen, able to display a commercial and pragmatic approach. Able to talk 'business' not 'just HR'.

What's in it for you?

We want to reward you today and help you plan for tomorrow. We appreciate that everyone is different, therefore we have designed a benefits system that offers choice and flexibility based on individual needs and lifestyles. To name just a few, these include:

Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
Flexible, hybrid working policy
Generous bonus scheme
Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
Holiday exchange scheme
Private medical insurance
Enhanced parental leave

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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