Global Business Partner; Shared Services

Job Description

Global People Business Partner (Shared Services)

Job Description

Global People Business Partner (Shared Services)

Location: Bristol or Edinburgh (Hybrid)

In this position, you’ll be based in the Bristol or Edinburgh office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week.

Computershare is evolving — and we’re looking for a Global People Business Partner who can help shape what comes next across Shared Services.

As a key member of our leadership team, you’ll bring a strategic, forward‑thinking People lens to every major business decision. You’ll influence the direction of our global organisation, champion a modern People agenda, and help us create an environment where our people can thrive.

We operate as one global People team, we are committed to delivering an exceptional experience to applicants, candidates, employees, managers, and other stakeholders.

The Business Partnering Team drives an excellent employee experience and provides a key point of contact for Business Unit Heads for strategic support to shape their People agenda globally. The team requires dedicated, driven and talented individuals to live, breathe and embody the People team’s vision in executing their strategic role.

The Global People Business Partner will be an integral part of the senior leadership team for our Global CEOs as they transform their Shared Services function.

This is a great opportunity for a strategic minded candidate to lead an exciting People agenda, breaking new ground on a daily basis and driving the standards for attracting, managing, rewarding and supporting Computershare’s people.

• Act as trusted advisor to the Function heads and their leadership teams, providing coaching and guidance on a range of sensitive people/commercial issues, including development of key leaders identified in the succession plan
• Lead the design of the people strategy needed to support the strategic aims of the function aligned to the global Computershare people strategy
• Share the function strategy and priorities with the People team Centers of Excellence to enable effective planning and delivery to business units.
• Key conduit between the business unit and the wider People team, ensuring key people projects are supported, represented and delivered.
• Be part of or lead programs of work to support the delivery of people initiatives, utilizing project management knowledge
• Proactively drive improvements to business performance by providing expertise on organisational design and change
• Leverage workforce insights and analytics in order to focus the business’s leaders on relevant People issues while assessing potential strategies and solutions that promote talent, development and succession plans
• Oversee and create solutions to mitigate people risks
• Champion Computershare’s culture, values and ways of working, employees and locations, promoting an inclusive workplace
• Actively engage in the Business Partner development programs with a continuous learning mindset to upskill on the latest thinking.
• Responsible for the oversight of other business partners

• Experience as a Business Partner who has previously held a senior leadership role for a sizeable commercial organisation, ideally with a Global remit
• Significant experience in organisational design principles and delivery of large-scale people change program. Post-acquisition/merger integration experience would be an advantage
• Demonstrable experience in partnering and coaching leaders in all facets of People management as well as developing and coaching them to reach their potential
• Ability to develop strong trust based relationships at very senior levels, through strong presence, gravitas, interpersonal and influencing skills
• Ability to work within remote and hybrid teams and to account manage service delivery into a business unit
• Effective working at both strategic and operational level with strong commercial acumen
• Strong ethics and values with strong alignment to Computershare culture
• Outstanding…