HR Business Partner (HR Talent Partner)

Human Resources at Cognizant is more than 4,000 talented people globally, engaging, inspiring, and enabling our 350,000 associates to engineer modern businesses to improve everyday life. We are a trusted partner to our full business, bringing our expertise and insights to shape winning talent strategies

The HR Talent Partner role sits within UK team and will provide proactive day to day employee facing HR resource support to specific business practices in line with the HR strategy and business objectives The Talent Partner role is responsible for operational duties, some strategic work and project work. The team structure is made of around 12 in UK, and consists of Business Partners, Talent Partners and support from a Shared Services centre. This role reports into the Associate Director for the UK Talent Partner Group Manager.

The role is London based (hybrid working model) but you must be willing to travel to client sites across the UK from time to time

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the HR Leader for a defined set of Business Units at both an operational and strategic level in a fast-moving dynamic organisation.
• Act as lead HR support to client groups of technology and business process professionals based in the UK.
• Support employee life cycle events for employees, including recruitment, on-boarding, development, promotion, bonus and merit increases and others as necessary.
• Build effective relationships within the business, providing managers and associates with professional and proactive support.
• Advise managers and associates on statutory compliance and HR best practice e.g. disciplinary, grievance, maternity etc.
• Analyse ER data, identify trends and make recommendations on improvements to processes and practices.
• Work with an off-shore administration teams to ensure a robust and smooth HR administration service is delivered to associates.
• Contribute to the delivery of HR implementation plans with a special focus on employee engagement
• Actively support HR related projects e.g. induction, performance management, talent management
• Actively support BU related projects and implementation from a people perspective
• Act as a mentor to less experienced members of the team

Required

• Ideally have degree in HR/related discipline or equivalent
• Significant experience of HR business partnering within a matrix organisation on wide range of HR topics, providing expert advice to managers and employees preferably in a business process consultancy environment.
• In-depth knowledge of UK employment law.
• Strong communication skills (verbal & written)