Global HR Business Partner

About the role

The HRBP role at Swift is multifaceted and evolving.

You will partner closely with management teams, employee groups and other stakeholders to implement our people strategy and help your client groups achieve their business goals. The role requires a strategic mindset with the ability to influence leadership teams and employees to help the organisation transform, as well as the ability to focus on more operational HR matters to ensure the day-to-day HR needs of your client groups are met.

Our HRBP team is distributed across the USA, EMEA and APAC regions and we partner with client groups that have leaders and employees located worldwide. As a result, the role presents opportunities for cross-cultural working and learning globally. There are also opportunities to lead or contribute to global HR initiatives to help advance our people strategy which allow for deeper exposure to Swift global OneHR Team & other stakeholders.

Our team environment is highly collaborative and supportive. We have each other’s back, learn from each other, and regularly share best practices and experiences to help continuously improve the support we provide to our client groups and evolve our HRBP operating model.

What to expect

An important part of the role is about empowering our leaders so that they drive high performing teams and enhance the employee experience of their team members. To this end, you will spend time coaching and influencing leaders to demonstrate the Swift leadership principles in their daily work.

You will be comfortable using data to provide actionable insights, empower people leaders and enhance operational efficiency.

You will help secure Swift's future by partnering with leaders to maintain a dynamic, diverse workforce that meet business needs and offer growth for employees while ensuring expertise.

You will help foster a performance and learning culture that enhance employee experience. This will include varied activities relating to performance management and talent development (i.e. performance review process, talent reviews, poor performance management) or the rolling out of our employee listening activities and the implementation of actions that improve employee engagement or driving participation in our L&D programmes.

You will bring your own experience and ideas to help evolve our HRBP operating model and ensure we offer best in class partnership and offerings to our client groups. You will contribute positively to the evolution of the HRBP role at Swift and the One HR team mindset by collaborating with others, aligning and scaling our practices and demonstrating a growth mindset. 

You will have strong influential skills as well as a coaching approach to help change mindsets within management teams and help leaders see what’s possible when it comes to aligning and optimizing talent so that our people deliver on our strategy today and in the future.

What will make you successful?

Competencies and Skills

• Ability to understand and be curious about the business and their challenges and articulate effectively how the HR strategy and HR initiatives enable the business strategy.
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship building, influencing skills.  
• Must be fluent in English and able to communicate well across all levels/audiences within the organisation, with strong storytelling and presentation skills. 
• An inquisitive mindset with the ability to constructively challenge and coach senior leaders and management teams.
• Comfortable with data and leveraging insights to inform and influence decisions.
• Highly collaborative approach with a OneHR mindset.
• Contribute creative ideas to business challenges or to help improve our HR offerings.
• Customer centric mindset, always putting the employee and people leader experience first.
• Sense of ownership and accountability.
• Ability to apply a strategic mindset to solve business challenges and to also support more operational matters to get things done.

Knowledge & Experience

• A minimum of 4 years generalist HR experience gained in global environments, in medium-large sized companies, including a minimum of 2 years of HR Business partnering experience gained at senior level (partnering with management teams and senior leaders) and of scaling your support to large teams.
• Experience of having supported organisations transform and challenging the status quo.
• Experience of managing sensitive people cases to satisfactory outcomes balancing various needs and legal requirements.
• Experience of rolling out programmes and initiatives in a way that is relevant to the business context of the groups supported. 
• Experience of empowering leaders so they can best serve their teams’ needs and lead by example.
• Knowledge of the HR industry (i.e. keeping on top of trends, challenges and best in class practices).
• Experience of simplifying HR offerings and automating HR processes.
• Good understanding of HR practices in EMEA (and of other regions if possible) and ideally some experience of having worked in unionised environments.