Lead - People Experience/ Senior Lead - People Experience

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Role Overview:

We are looking for a proactive HR professional to serve as the Location HR Partner, responsible for delivering exceptional employee experiences, driving high-performance culture, and enabling talent development at NCR. This role acts as the first point of contact for employees and managers, working closely with Business HRBPs, HR Operations, and Centres of Excellence (CoEs) to address location-specific people priorities and business challenges.

Role Purpose:

The Location HR Partner will be the first point of contact for employee and manager queries, providing tactical HR support and advisory. This role is instrumental in driving HR initiatives and elevating employee experience across HR Lifecycle, driving engagement and retention, support talent identification and development and lead HR initiatives tailored to the location’s needs.

Key Responsibilities:

HR Advisory & Business Partnership:

• Collaborate with HRBPs and CoEs to co-create solutions for business-specific people challenges.
• Act as a trusted advisor to line managers on employee relations, performance management, and organizational effectiveness.
• Support complex and sensitive cases (e.g., grievances, disciplinary actions) with discretion and timely resolution.

Operational HR Excellence:

• Serve as the first point of contact for tactical HR matters, ensuring timely consultation and escalation.
• Ensure 100% completion and accuracy of employee lifecycle processes (e.g., onboarding, probation, trainings,).
• Monitor and drive compliance with statutory and internal HR policies (e.g., POSH, Code of Conduct/ Integrity).

Employee Experience & Engagement:

• Drive onboarding excellence through structured orientation, buddy programs, and feedback loops.
• Lead location-level engagement initiatives including surveys (e.g., GPTW), action planning, and CSR activities.
• Track and improve new joiner experience metrics and implement corrective actions as needed.

Talent & Retention Support:

• Maintain and update talent and retention dashboards/ data; identify hotspots and proactively engage with vulnerable groups. Drive retention and engagement goals for the location – NCR.
• Support HRBPs in merit cycle reviews, ensuring market alignment and ED&I considerations.
• Partner with business champions to implement engagement survey action plans.
• Identify and engage Key Talent within the location; ensure robust development plans and learning & development interventions are in place.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders including HR Operations, CoEs, and business leaders.
• Ensure seamless communication and coordination across HR functions to deliver timely and effective solutions.

Key Behaviours & Competencies:

• Customer Focus: Understands and anticipates stakeholder needs; delivers responsive and high-quality HR support and advisory.
• Excellence Orientation: Strives for continuous improvement and goes the extra mile to exceed expectations.
• Collaboration & Teamwork: Works cross-functionally, shares knowledge, and fosters a culture of partnership.
• Change Agility: Navigates and leads change effectively, adapting to evolving business & location needs.
• Talent Stewardship: Champions talent development and succession planning with a future-focused mindset.

What We Can Offer You:

• Varied, interesting and meaningful work.
• A hybrid working environment with flexibility and great opportunities.
• Opportunities for training and, as the team grows, career progression or sideways moves.
• An opportunity to work within a large global multi-disciplinary consultancy on a mission to change the ways we approach business as usual.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We at AtkinsRéalis are committed to developing its people both personally and professionally. Our colleagues have the advantage of access to a high ranging training portfolio and development activities designed to help make the best of individual’s abilities and talents. We also actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.

Meeting Your Needs:

To help you get the most out of life in and outside of work, we offer employees ‘Total Reward’.
Making sure you're supported is important to us. So, if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview, and we’ll discuss any adjustments you might need.

Additional Information:

We are an equal opportunity, drug-free employer committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

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