HR Business Partner - Corporate Functions
Group/Corporate
Glasgow, UK, Hybrid
Purpose of Role:
HR Business Partner – Corporate Functions is a high-impact people and talent strategic partner to the functional business & Corporate Division.
As part of the Corporate & Functional Business Partner team, you'll be responsible for driving and executing people strategies that enable transformation, workforce agility, and organisational performance which are aligned to business objectives.
This role is pivotal in embedding the “One Weir” approach, supporting functional excellence, and enabling sustainable change and performance across the respective functional area.
Why choose Weir:
Be part of a global organization dedicated to building a better future: At Weir, the growing world depends on us. It depends on us constantly reinventing, quickly adapting and continually finding better, faster, more sustainable ways to access the resources it needs to thrive. And it depends on each of us doing the best work of our lives. It’s a big challenge – but it is exciting.
An opportunity to grow your own way: Everything moves fast in the dynamic world of Weir. This creates opportunities for us to take on new challenges, explore new areas, learn, progress and excel. Best of all, there is no set path that our people must take. Instead, everyone is given the support and freedom to tailor-make their own career and do the best work of their lives.
Feel empowered to be yourself and belong: Weir is a welcoming, inclusive place, where each individual’s contribution is recognized and all employees are encouraged to innovate, collaborate and be themselves. We continually focus on people and their wellbeing. We believe in fairness and choose to be honest, transparent and authentic in everything we do.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic HR Business Partnering: Responsible as a strategic people and talent partner to functional leaders aligning people strategies with business objectives to deliver solutions and high quality outcomes with tangible impacts. You'll deliver highly proactive HR advice & solutions to support interventions and initiatives to include organisational design, talent management, and strategic people planning and in collaboration with Reward, Employee Experience and Talent & Organisation Development CoEs to ensure alignment.
Data Driven Insights: You'll leverage workforce analytics to inform people & talent decisions and strategies and deliver compelling narratives to senior leaders. Additionally, you will use data to diagnose organisational needs, identify solutions and measure the impact of HR initiatives.
Strategic People & Workforce Planning: You'll lead the delivery of all cyclical people processes for your functional areas and businesses—including strategic people and workforce plans, talent reviews, succession planning (TDSP), oversight of all performance management cases, engagement, and compensation—ensuring alignment with business priorities and continuous improvement to deliver an excellent employee experience
Influencing, Coaching & Continuous Improvement: You'll build and maintain strong relationships to enable business outcomes, guiding leaders through high-impact decisions on team structure, leadership development, performance management, and talent planning. Your consultancy-based approach will ensure there is a strong focus on organisational capability in support the “North Star” vision for the function which will enable you to advise on and lead change initiatives to evolve organisational culture, build leadership capability, and drive adoption of new ways of working.
Safety First: Demonstrate 100% commitment to our zero harm behaviours in support of our drive towards developing a world class safety culture.
Job Knowledge/Education and Qualifications:
Recognised HR qualification or equivalent professional experience as a HR Business Partner in a globally matrixed company.
Natural curiosity and the proven ability to translate business priorities into effective HR strategies, actionable people plans, and processes aligned to global change agendas.
Skilled in engaging and influencing others across multiple geographies and matrix environments, you'll demonstrate strong commercial awareness, enabling credible positioning and the capacity to thoughtfully challenge when appropriate.
Results-oriented, technology minded, pragmatic, and action-focused, with a collaborative and consultative approach, you'll understand and be skilled at using data as part of the HRBP toolkit.
Founded in 1871, Weir is a world leading engineering business with a purpose to make mining operations smarter, more efficient and sustainable. Thanks to Weir’s technology, our customers can produce essential metals and minerals using less energy, water and waste at lower cost. With the increasing need for metals and minerals for climate change solutions, Weir colleagues are playing their part in powering a low carbon future. We are a global family of 11,000 uniquely talented people in over 60 counties, inspiring each other to do the best work of our lives.
For additional information about what it is like to work at Weir, please visit our Career Page and LinkedIn Life Page.
Weir is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.
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