HR Business Partner

Title:

HR Business Partner

Company:

Everest Advisors (Uk), Ltd.

Job Category:

Human Resources

Job Description:

It’s an exciting time for Everest Re Group, Ltd. (“Everest”)! As we continue on our journey, we see significant opportunity ahead of us to expand our reach, build diversity, and enhance our capabilities in critical markets.

Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for over 50 years through subsidiaries in the Bermuda, Canada, Europe, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people. 

At Everest, we are committed to the development of our people. We offer dynamic training & professional development to our employees. You will benefit from career development and learning opportunities that will let you set career goals and fulfill them, including:

•          Generous tuition/continuing education reimbursement

•          Mentoring opportunities

•          Flexible work arrangements

•          Talent development initiatives

•          Networking groups

Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers.

This position will be based in our London office with a hybrid schedule that has the option of working two days remotely each week.

Team Overview:

Working closely with the Head of People for Europe and International Business lines you will facilitate the delivery of our strategic objectives, partnering with our international colleagues and leaders based in the UK, providing comprehensive people support. You will lead projects and strategic initiatives focused on culture, change management, performance, talent management, and organizational design and development.

Through effective stakeholder management, an understanding of our business objectives and what drives them and as a champion for our culture you will be able to align team objectives with our people practices, influence organisational design and development, support and manage change whilst ensuring managers and colleagues are equipped to foster a high-performance culture.

As part of the international and global People and Talent team, you will collaborate to ensure our offerings are consistent. You will work closely with Talent Acquisition (TA), Talent Development (TD), other Centres of Excellence (COEs), and our People Services Team in Madrid to support international growth.

Key Accountabilities:

People & Talent practices

• Partner and consult with the business to align people and talent initiatives with business objectives and goals, embedding our values into everything we do.

• Collaborate with international colleagues and UK based leaders to offer comprehensive people support. Understand business objectives and align team goals with people practices.

• Influence organizational design and development, support change management, and foster a high-performance culture.

• Lead projects and initiatives focused on culture, change management, performance, talent management, and organizational design.

• Partner with Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, COEs and People Services in Madrid to support international growth and ensure consistency in how we support the business.

• Lead on managing performance issues, collaborating with managers to ensure we adhere to best practice, coaching them to manage performance consistently, supporting employees throughout the process and collaborating with managers to ensure they have the skills and tools to do perform at their best.

• Support managers to prepare for and administrate annual processes, such as compensation planning, ensuring alignment between performance and compensation awards, managing the review and moderation process alongside the global compensation team.

• Keep abreast of best practice, employment legislation, considering its impact on Everest and suggest appropriate action. Keep managers informed of changes that may directly affect them or their teams, from an international and local perspective.

Workforce planning

• Ensure our organizational design meets the needs of our business objectives and supports a growing and ever-changing business, providing ongoing support to managers on Organizational Development

• Working with the Head of People and your client group, determine staffing needs, define, and prioritize role and resourcing requirements.

• Support the TA team in agreeing job descriptions and role profiles, interviewing candidates where necessary and working with the hiring manager to agree appropriate compensation, proactively managing recruitment expectations.

• Have a full understanding of our Global Mobility programs and assist the HR Officer with the coordination and planning of international transfers and secondments.

People & Talent champion

• Provide coaching and training where appropriate, including training for managers to ensure they have skills and knowledge to support and lead their teams.

• Provide advice and coaching to employees and managers on policies and processes, contract terms and our employee handbook. 

• Support initiatives, people processes and policies that help us meet create an inclusive environment.

• Work with the TD team to consistently meet learning & development needs, ensuring we have a core training offering that meets skills needs and that all employees have development plans.

• Working with the rest of the HR team ensure the new joiner and onboarding process for your teams is consistent and introduces people to our culture and ensures new hires have the necessary tools and resources to start their career with us.

• Design and drive engagement initiatives.

Talent Development

• Plan talent needs strategy, determining staffing needs, define and prioritize role and resourcing requirements.

• Lead on employee onboarding within your client groups and where appropriate across International, collaborating with Managers to ensure thorough and appropriate team and department inductions that are consistent and reflect our values.

Professional Experience:

• Proven experience in partnering with the business and translating business priorities and objectives into tangible people practices and processes.

• Experience in managing employee relations issues and a proven track record of supporting and coaching managers to achieve high performance.

• Experience of workforce planning and end-to-end recruitment process.

• An extensive knowledge of employment and engagement best practice and a demonstratable interest company culture and values. 

• Extensive knowledge of employment legislation and best practice, with experience of networking with external HR professionals.

• Experience in talent management, succession planning and talent development including leadership positions.

• A background in financial services sector

Desirable Experience

• A background in the Insurance sector.

• Knowledge of the CBI regulatory regime.

Skills, Abilities & Attributes

• Fantastic people skills and a confident communicator.

• An ability to manage stakeholders with competing demands.

• A willingness to learn and solve problems and work proactively, focused on solutions.

Qualifications

• CIPD qualified to level 5 would be an advantage but is not essential to the role.

Everest Values and Behaviours:  

Our recruitment practices assess candidates’ behaviours, competences and capability to ensure they are fit to fulfil their roles and carry out their duties with a high degree of integrity and commitment. Through our organisation values and colleague behaviours, we encourage cultivating a positive ethical culture, meeting our regulatory requirements and conduct standards by ensuring clear lines of responsibility, accountability, and a focus on fair customer outcomes.

This includes employees complying with the PRA/FCA SM&CR Conduct Rules, at all times, and for those employees holding PCF and CF roles under the CBI Fitness and Probity Regime, complying with the CBI Conduct Standards.

The PRA/FCA and CBI Conduct Rules are as follows: to act with integrity; to act with due skill, care and diligence; to be open and co-operative with the dedicated regulators; to pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly and professionally; to observe proper standards if market conduct, and trading venue rules; act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.

Our values are the ideals we aspire to so that we can live up to the promise of our brand and underwrite opportunity for all of our stakeholders. They are the guiding principles that inform our decisions, actions, and behaviours. The role holder will be required to embrace the Everest Core Values: Talent, Thoughtful assumption of risk, Execution, Efficiency, Humility, Leadership, Collaboration, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Our behaviors define how we operate: Respect Everyone, Pursue Better, Lead By Example, Own our Outcomes, and Win Together. All colleagues are held accountable for embodying our behaviors and are evaluated on these as part of their performance.

Type:

Regular

Time Type:

Full time

Primary Location:

London

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