People Partner - 18 Month FTC

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.  

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. 

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. 

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.  

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. 

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Join our HR team and provide comprehensive, expert, and hands-on HR support to key stakeholders within our capabilities and functions. Applying expertise and knowledge via coaching and advice, this 18-month FTC role will foster a high-performance culture and enable our people agenda. Reporting into the Head of UK People Partnering, this role will also work alongside colleagues in our HR People Partnering team (locally and globally), HR Operations team and PAs Centres of Excellence (CoE).

This is an exciting opportunity to Partner with PA’s Digital and Data team in the UK.  As a focus area of growth, our Digital and Data team are experts creating lasting change using the power of digital technology and a creative mindset to solve real human problems. From strategic thinking to product design, complex engineering, and leading-edge experimentation, proud to drive innovation and enrich people’s lives.

The People Partner will:

• Partner with your business areas to develop and implement their people agenda, ensuring alignment to the global people strategy and drawing on expertise from PAs HR CoEs.
• Enable a high-performance culture through strong performance management and talent development, drawing on expertise from PAs CoEs.
• Work alongside PAs ER and Policy Specialist on ER cases, ensuring the right interventions are put in place.
• Work with and coach leads and line managers to develop and optimise people management capability, supported by PAs CoEs.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our business partnering processes and policies.
• Coach Leads and line managers and their people to ensure effective delivery of our cyclical processes including Mid, YE and promotion processes.
• Work alongside colleagues from across the HR community and contribute to strategic and operational HR projects (local, national, and global).
• Utilise people data to provide insights, drive best practice, and enable innovative solutions.
• Champion PAs values and the behaviours we expect of each other.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

• A passion and commitment to providing the highest quality service to your client areas in a collaborative manner.
• Consistently collaborates with and supports HR colleagues to provide an exceptional service to our clients.
• Commercially astute, you consider the financial and legal impact /risk of all decisions.
• Well-networked with a strong understanding of the organisation structure, its intersections, and relationships.
• You are able to challenge and influence where necessary to ensure the right decisions are made.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills which enable you to engage and influence senior stakeholders.
• The ability to analyse a complex problem through an evidence-based approach, producing compelling insights and recommendations to a client problem. You understand when it is appropriate to escalate a problem and seek additional advice.
• Strong prioritisation skills, balancing constant reactive demands with a proactive approach.
• You will have personal experience and understanding of working with clients within a consultancy and/or professional services environment, ideally having worked with a digital/data driven client group.
• Degree & CIPD qualified, strong working knowledge of HR best practice and UK employment law.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. 

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. 

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits: 

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days 
• Generous company pension scheme 
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives 
• Annual performance-based bonus 
• PA share ownership 
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn) 

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups. 

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected] 

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