The primary focus of this role is to act as one of the key HR contacts for the Digital practice group & the AI team across the UK and EMEA, and to pro-actively deliver business-focused HR services to the teams.
Business partnering and day to day operations
Work closely with Digital & AI teams to understand how HR can support their people and operational priorities.
Act as a trusted adviser and sounding board, providing HR advice and expertise on a wide range of generalist issues, taking into account the operational impact of any intervention.
Allocate appropriate tasks to the People Operations Team, ensuring the effective and efficient delivery of day-to-day HR operations.
Support the various change management initiatives underway across the firm and work with the HR Manager to communicate any organisational change to the practice areas/teams as appropriate.
Deputise for the HR Manager as required - for example, attending management meetings.
Support the Practice Manager and other business services teams such as Business Finance with ad hoc requests and projects.
Employee Relations
Act as first point of contact for the Digital and AI teams, providing guidance and support to employees and managers to ensure that all employee issues are resolved promptly, with the emphasis on building excellent relationships and instilling trust.
Proactively identify changes and improvements to employment policies and practices.
Assist with the successful implementation of new employment policies and practices across the Digital & AI teams.
Advise managers on how to effectively manage poor performance, ensuring issues are being dealt with in the appropriate way.
With guidance from the HR Manager, lead on straightforward ER issues such as disciplinaries and grievances.
Manage all flexible working requests and advise on policy and procedure.
Monitor and manage all office sickness absence, including referrals to Occupational Health as necessary, and implementation of the firm's sick pay policies. Manage long-term sickness cases and PHI claims where necessary.
Support the People Operations Team with manage the maternity, shared parental leave and adoption processes for employees.
Escalate risk issues promptly and openly to HR Manager, identifying the requirement for employment law advice (or other) advice where appropriate.
Joiners and Leavers
Co-ordinate the on-boarding process and update the People Team and leadership/senior management team as required.
Liaise with the Recruitment Team and People Operations Team to oversee the effective implementation of the induction process for all new joiners.
Conduct new joiner conversations, collate feedback and communicate to the appropriate people as necessary.
Conduct exit interviews and communicate feedback to the business as necessary.
Oversee the probation review process.
Secondments
Manage client and intra-office secondments, working closely alongside the International Mobility Team and relevant managers in the practice.
Proactively promote secondment opportunities and manage the client secondment process.
Oversee secondment policy and ancillary secondment documents, ensuring that Digital & AI secondees have clear escalation routes whilst on secondment.
Track all movement of employees to and from Digital & AI from a secondment and transfer perspective.
Recruitment
Assist the Recruitment Team with the co-ordination and delivery of lateral recruitment processes as required.
Interview or support candidate assessment processes as necessary.
Co-ordinate the annual Belfast trainee recruitment process, working closely with relevant managers in the practice, the Recruitment Team and the HR Manager.
Maintain resourcing plans for designated client groups and work
Benefits
Health insuranceFlexible scheduleParental leave
Additional Information
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm, where our ambition is to help you achieve your goals.
Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core. We invest in and care about our client relationships, which is why so many are longstanding. We enjoy breaking new ground, as we have for over 170 years.
As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we are where you need us to be. Our footprint is extensive and committed across the world's largest markets, key financial centres and major growth hubs.
At our best tackling complexity and navigating change, we work alongside you on demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work and complex public and private market transactions. We are recognised as leading in these areas.
We are immersed in the sectors and challenges that impact you. We are recognised as standing apart in energy, infrastructure and resources. And we're focused on areas of growth that affect every business across the world.
All of this is achieved by supporting the growth of our people, who help us deliver on our ambition - which is to help you achieve yours.
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