HR Business Partner, Wellcome
£87.3k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (Euston Road, London)
Global charitable foundation for science research
Open for applications
Global charitable foundation for science research
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£87.3k
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office (Euston Road, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
Wellcome's mission is to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.
Role
Who you are
- Improving organisational performance, employee engagement, and building a high-performing, purpose-driven culture
- Proven HR Business Partner experience at senior level, including 6+ years partnering Executive / Senior Leadership Teams
- 10+ years overall HR experience, with a strong generalist approach across the employee lifecycle
- Ability to challenge, influence and guide senior stakeholders effectively, acting as a trusted advisor
- Strong track record in developing and delivering People Strategies aligned to organisational goals
- Ability to translate strategy into clear, actionable plans for business areas
- Strong organisational design and change management experience, including leading change through to implementation
- Excellent coaching and relationship management skills, particularly with senior leaders
- Ability to influence, build trust, and drive outcomes across a range of stakeholders
- Data-driven mindset with a solid understanding of key people metrics (e.g. engagement, attrition, diversity, performance)
- Ideal background includes a breadth of experience across commercial/corporate and not-for-profit environments, bringing a diverse perspective
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for an HR Business Partner, to work with our Heads of HR providing strategic HR support and guidance to assigned business areas. The role involves partnering closely with senior leadership to influence, develop and drive HR strategies to enhance organisational performance, employee engagement and talent management, enabling Wellcome to deliver its mission and becoming ‘the best place to work’
- Trusted Adviser: as a trusted adviser to Executive Committee and Extended Executive Group at Wellcome, providing expert HR guidance, coaching and support, using insight of Wellcome’s environment to improve people and organisational outcomes
- Workforce Planning: Drive workforce planning, ensuring that Wellcome has the right people with the right skills in the right roles in order to deliver the mission, as part of the Integrated Organisational Planning process
- Talent Agenda: Support the talent agenda for assigned areas, including succession plans and capability plans, supported by the talent team. Work with Talent Acquisition to ensure the recruitment of high calibre candidates with the capabilities required to enable delivery of the mission. Active involvement in senior recruitment processes and support with onboarding
- Change Management: Facilitate change management to optimise effectiveness of the organisation to enable delivery of the mission, leading on complex, multi-disciplinary projects which will impact across the organisation
- Employee Engagement: Assess and improve organisational effectiveness through employee engagement strategies, helping to drive a highly engaged workforce with strong recommendation – eNPS
- Employee Relations: Lead senior Employee Relations issues, with support from the ER team
- Culture: Drive a high-performance culture within assigned business areas, providing coaching and feedback to managers
- Development: Champion the upskilling of leaders to own all people related decision making (supported by HR expertise). Work with Learning & Development in the identification of skills gaps and help facilitate appropriate training and development opportunities, with a particular focus on senior team development
- Data driven: Utilise HR analytics to drive data decision making, applying judgement to data to support and influence decision making
Application process
- To apply for this role please submit an up-to-date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The Wellcome Trust was originally founded in 1936 to fund medical research and has since grown into the UK’s largest private scientific research fund, and one of the wealthiest charities in the world. Disbursing over £1 billion in funds a year, it has provided funding to numerous medical research projects in its focus areas of mental health, climate & health and infectious diseases. These include the Cancer Genome Project and the Ebola Emergency Initiative.
Wellcome's 2022 decision to divest itself of its shares in fossil fuels has also relieved it of a persistent source of controversy, as this was potentially hindering the credibility of its climate change research. Wellcome has since partnered with the World Economic Forum to collect data on how climate change is affecting health worldwide.
The company is also moving to adjust to a more global role. The majority of its funding has historically been allocated to UK firms, but as climate change and infectious diseases know no borders, neither does research into solutions to these problems. ln 2019 it established an office in Berlin to strengthen its scientific links in the EU and to allow it to more easily fund important research outside of the UK.
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Holiday – 25 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays (and we usually close between Christmas and New Year)
- Pension (defined contribution plan) – you contribute at least 3% and we pay in 15% of your salary
- Income protection – to maintain your income if you have a prolonged illness or disability
- Life assurance – four to six times your basic salary if you’re a member of our pension plan
- Interest-free travel season ticket loan
- Private medical insurance – we pay the cover, you pay the tax (and you can pay to add dependants)
- Gym and fitness classes – free membership to on-site gym and subsidised fitness classes and treatments
- Employee assistance programme – free, independent 24/7 help and advice for work-related issues as well as problems affecting your home life
- Mental health support – our network of mental health first aiders can be a first point of contact, or help while you're receiving professional help
- Health assessments (free and voluntary) – after you’ve been here for one year, then every two years after that
- Occupational health – annual eye tests and flu jabs, as well as job-related vaccinations
- Flexible working – we make every effort to support flexible working, including flexible working hours and remote working (we respect people's different working preferences and the need for a healthy work-life balance)
- Flexi-leave scheme – you can buy or sell up to five days of your holiday entitlement a year
- Staff social club – a range of sports teams and fun events throughout the year
- Volunteering – we give you up to four days' paid leave a year to contribute to our local community
- Give As You Earn – allows you to make tax-free donations to the charities you care about
- Cycle-to-work scheme – we offer at least 25% discount on bikes and cycling equipment and we have secure cycle storage, lockers and showers
- Subsidised restaurant and cafe
- Wellcome Collection discounts – 20% off food, drink and gifts from our cafe, restaurant and shop
- Discounts through Perkbox – shopping, restaurants, cinema tickets, phone insurance and gift cards
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Jeremy Farrar
(Director)Has been Director of the Wellcome Trust since 2013. Before that was Director of Oxford Clinical Research Unit, working on research and clinical trials for diseases in Vietnam.
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