People Partner - Projects

We’re an award-winning innovative tech consultancy - a team of creative problem solvers. Since 1993 we’ve been finding better, more sustainable ways to solve complex technology problems for some of the world’s leading organisations and delivered solutions that millions of people use every day.

In the last 30 years we won several awards, including a prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category for our Enterprise Agile delivery approach.

Operating from 26 locations across the world, we bring together teams of creative experts with diverse backgrounds and experiences, who enjoy working and learning in our collaborative and open culture and are committed to world-class delivery.

We want to continue to grow our team with people just like you!

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join us as a People Partner, focusing on project work. This is a diverse role looking at a range of HR areas, from employee engagement, D&I, reward and recognition to systems and organisational design, with the goal of supporting the business to drive best practice in the People engagement and support space and continuing to make BJSS a great place to work for all our people.

In this role you’d be expected to work with leadership teams from across the business to understand our people, and design and deliver initiatives to build engagement, drive performance, and address any challenge areas. BJSS is in a period of rapid growth and development, so in order to succeed in this role you’ll need to enjoy a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple tasks at once!

Responsibilities include:

• Partner with local leadership teams to understand the needs of the business and our people.
• Take responsibility for the ideation, design, develop and implement of a variety of People project and initiatives.
• Interpret people data (such as equal opportunities, sickness, absence, and exit interview), highlighting strong elements for maintenance and areas for improvement, then proposing solutions.
• Collaborate with the wider People Team (Business Support component) to ensure that all People Team tasks are processed effectively, supporting on employee relations cases where necessary.
• Support the Head of People in building and delivering the wider people agenda.

We’re looking for:

• A strong People Partner with experience working within a similar role in a fast-paced, high-performance environment (ideally CIPD qualified).
• Considerable experience of taking ownership for managing large-scale change projects (ideally globally).
• Highly creative, with the ability to generate ideas for engaging and impactful initiatives (from scratch) and see these through to implementation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills; the ability to build relationships, understand needs, and offer considered guidance.
• Highly adaptable; open to change and willing to 'muck in’ to get the job done.
• Strong knowledge of employment law and the ability to translate this into clear, usable information/actions.
• An enthusiastic team-player, while still self-driven and able to work without frequent support.
• A confident, credible, and approachable manner.
• A proactive, flexible and positive work style.

• Flexible benefits allowance - you choose how to spend your allowance (additional pension contributions, healthcare, dental and more)
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan - we partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual's need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support, and other
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Hybrid working - Our roles are not fully remote as we take pride in the tight knit communities we have created at our local offices. But we offer plenty of flexibility and you can split your time between the office, client site and WFH
• Discounts - we have preferred rates from dozens of retail, lifestyle, and utility brands
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Training opportunities and incentives - we support professional certifications across engineering and non-engineering roles, including unlimited access to O’Reilly
• Giving back - the ability to get involved nationally and regionally with partnerships to get people from diverse backgrounds into tech
• You will become part of a squad with people from different areas within the business who will help you grow at BJSS
• We have a busy social calendar that you can choose to join- quarterly town halls/squad nights out/weekends away with families included/office get togethers
• GymFlex gym membership programme