CDW Hiring for HR Business Partner at Peterborough Full Time

Bring your career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your job and future. With revenues of over £1 billion, CDW UK is a leading supplier of IT solutions and services to a broad range of commercial and public sector customers globally.

The CWS Business Partner Generalist supports the Senior Business Partner with implementing corporate policies and facilitating organisation and leadership development efforts by partnering with the workforce to address root causes of human resources issues.

This role assists management in developing and implementing solutions through culture, processes and best practices while ensuring compliance of all internal policies and legislation. The Business Partner supports the business unit through all coworker services activities including: informal coworker relations issues, organizational capability, compensation, benefits and special projects. Additionally, the CWS BP acts as an advisor to management and serves as a resource centre for coworkers.

Travel within the UK is required.

What you’ll do:
Prevention of employment tribunal claims and losses for CDW UK through proactive coaching and development as well as review of business practices / best practice

Maintain and develop strong partnering relationships with stakeholders

Assisting in driving company-wide initiatives i.e. performance management, benefit strategies, merit reviews and organizational change

Partner with SME’s within CWS team to meet the needs of CDW and the business unit and be the representative of CWS to the assigned business unit

Act as a CWS Business Partner for assigned business unit providing a consistent proactive service for advice and guidance on all areas of coworker services including but not limited to:

Building and reviewing job descriptions

Working with the Compensation team to complete analysis, build compensation strategy and manage business unit changes to any compensation

Advising on career development and pathing, utilising the L&D SMEs when required and also ensuring talent is recognised and developed within each area

Work with the talent acquisition team to build a contingency workforce strategy for area, looking to future readiness

Partnership with the business in formulating and influencing business and talent strategy

Works with the business unit for any transfers, talent mobility progression

Building and maintain a partnering relationship with all leaders and managers within the assigned business unit focussing on people, process and technology enabling CDW to reach company and business unit wide targets

Drive talent philosophy throughout business unit to ensure that CDW is building better leaders, a bench for critical roles within business unit and focusing on future requirements

Advise and support management on organisation and structure design ensuring future readiness to meet business strategy and market growth

Drive engagement and productivity within business unit considering alignment, engagement, rewards and market data

Guide leaders regarding coworker information actions, PIPs and terminations to ensure consistency in approach

Provide commercially focused operational CWS support to the business Mediate and facilitate disputes within business unit working to reduce the number of formal

cases and working in conjunction with the ER Manager to highlight trends and agree solutions

Propose policy and procedure changes / improvements to instil best business and leadership practices

Support the Senior BP of CWS and management team in the retention and motivation of staff

Achievement of CWS KPIs and project delivery

Support the implementation of any strategic CWS initiatives to maximise benefits to business goals

Monitor, review and revise all company procedures

Monitor and, where necessary, train managers on policy/procedure usage and implementation

Audit managers’ compliance with company procedures

To proactively manage informal coworker (ER) relations issues

To provide up to date legal advice to management

Work proactively to minimise any legal risk to CDW

To be responsible for management of TUPE programs, liaising with transferring organisations and management teams to ensure transfers are conducted within the legislative framework

Work in partnership with the ER Manager (job title tbc) to ensure business awareness and consistency

Manage or supervisor, depending on role, CWS Advisor ensuring a high level of service

What you need to succeed:
Must-have:
CIPD qualified

Employment Law knowledge and ability to translate this into commercially astute CWS Advice.

UK Case law knowledge

Discipline, Grievance, Absence and TUPE experience

Change Management experience

Experience of managing CWS Projects

Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)

HRIS Experience (HR Pro desirable)

Proactive, self-motivated and independent worker

Excellent communication skills

Ability to build relationships at all levels of the organisation

Team player

Conflict resolution skills

Ability to influence

Ability to coach and develop people

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organisations in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from startups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.

What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers:
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT, but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.