HR Business Partner Lead

CooperVision, a division of CooperCompanies (NASDAQ:COO), is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses. The Company produces a full array of daily disposable, two-week and monthly contact lenses, all featuring advanced materials and optics. CooperVision has a strong heritage of solving the toughest vision challenges such as astigmatism, presbyopia and childhood myopia; and offers the most complete collection of spherical, toric and multifocal products available. Through a combination of innovative products and focused practitioner support, the company brings a refreshing perspective to the marketplace, creating real advantages for customers and wearers. For more information, visit www.coopervision.com.

Job Summary:

To provide proactive, value adding, strategically aligned support to the Senior Managers of their area in the development and the delivery of people strategies, in line with the business VMOST objectives. Being an active change agent with delivery and implementation of any organisational transformation work. Ensuring all advise given is compliant with legislation adhering to company policies and best practice. 

• Proactively collaborate and support Senior Managers in driving strategic HR discussions. Contributing to the development of their business area by ensuring that the local HR strategics are directly aligned to the overall business strategy.
• Provide expertise advice, support and coach Business Leaders and Managers on HR matters, including policies, procedures, best practice, employment legislation, employment relation issues, organisation design, Learning and Development, Total Reward as well as employee wellness initiatives. 

• Introduce and where appropriate adapt HR policies and initiatives based upon best practice to ensure local effectiveness and legal compliance for all the assigned areas. 

• Work collaboratively with the L&D Business Partner to support and implement development and training solutions to retain and develop our internal talent. 
• Work collaboratively with internal Talent Acquisition Specialists to ensure talent resourcing plans are met and interviewing managers are equipped with the necessary skills. 
• Work collaboratively with Occupational Health by ensuring that appropriate policies and practices and measures in in pace to control absence and address long and short-term absences in the most appropriate way.
• Being an active People Promise ambassador while supporting and maintaining our culture and engagement of our employees.
• With assistance of the HR Specialists and HR Administrators, produce compliant correspondence, on behalf of managers, relating to all areas of Human Resources, predominantly around Employee Relations. 
• Recommend and implement processes that aid the communication and dissemination of the corporate vision and values Assist the HR Director, HR Manager, HR Specialists and fellow HR Business Partners with any ad hoc duties and projects, specifically in identifying and driving improvement projects aim at attracting, maintaining, and developing an exceptional CooperVision team and at improving the UK Manufacturing HR function. 
• Analyses trends and metrics in partnership with their business unit and wider HR Team to develop solutions and policy to support the business.

• Help drive employee engagement by assessing performance within their allocated areas against the requirements of the business and facilitating action items to improve engagement levels.

• Act as a trusted CooperVision employee by adhering to our company values, as well as driving our commitment to Inclusion and Diversity and Employee Engagement.

• Promote employee wellbeing so that employees remain engaged, productive and effective.

• Any other related duties connected with the Company’s business as may be required.

Travel Requirements: 

This role does not require any frequent foreign travel, but this role does require travel to local sites for operational meetings within the UK and therefore their own transport is preferred. Should any foreign travel be required to spend time at different locations/sites this will be discussed prior. 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Core competency – Individual Contributor level
  • Project Management
  • Teamwork
  • Results
  • Departmental Impact
  • Self-Awareness
• MS Office skills, including Word, Excel, Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook
• HR information systems experience (Oracle HCM would be advantageous)
• Extensive and up to date knowledge of UK employment law
• People focused and able to build and develop relationships with stakeholders.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are ess