People & Culture – Business Partnering

Description

The HR Business Partner provides high‑quality, proactive HR support to leaders and employees across a designated site or business area.

They handle complex employee relations matters
, act as a trusted advisor to managers, and take ownership for local HR policy updates, site compliance activities, and people‑related initiatives
.

This role bridges the space between tactical HR delivery and emerging strategic partnership — supporting culture, capability development, organisational change, and continuous improvement.

• Lead and manage complex ER cases, including performance concerns, long‑term sickness, grievances, disciplinaries, and sensitive employee matters, ensuring legal compliance and documentation accuracy.
• Provide coaching to managers on risk, options, and best practice, escalating only the highest‑risk issues to the Head of HR or Legal.
• Ensure process consistency and robust case management practices, keeping up to date on evolving local legislation and updating policies to remain compliant.
• Identify root causes of systemic ER issues and establish initiatives which aim to solve root cause issues.

• Own and update site‑specific HR policies, ensuring alignment with global policies, local legal requirements, and organisational standards.
• Lead site‑wide HR audits, compliance checks, and mandatory documentation reviews (absence, training, certificates, Workday accuracy).
• Partner with H&S, Legal, and local leaders to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
• Drive awareness and adoption of global HR processes across the site (performance, merit, talent, onboarding).

• Act as a trusted advisor to local managers, providing guidance on team dynamics, wellbeing, workload planning, inclusion, and employee motivation.
• Build manager capability to handle ER issues, resolve conflicts, and implement good people leadership practices.
• Reinforce Elekta’s values, leadership cornerstones, and expected behaviours.

• Lead local delivery of global HR processes: merit, PDP, talent review, engagement cycles, onboarding/offboarding, organisational changes.
• Provide market intel on to inform the benchmarking process and ensure pay equity.
• Attend and prepare information for internal and external audits.
• Ensure HR data integrity and strong execution of Workday transactions.
• Provide insights on site‑specific people trends and risks.
• Talent Acquisition
• Manage the end‑to‑end recruitment process, from requisition creation and sourcing to offer negotiation and onboarding collaboration.
• Conduct thorough pre‑screening interviews, assessing both capability and cultural fit.
• Ensure a consistently high‑quality candidate experience at every touch point.
• Sourcing & Talent Pipeline Development
• Build and maintain strong global talent pipelines, with a focus on diverse and critical skills.
• Source through multiple channels, including professional networks, social platforms, and niche communities.
• Govern and maintain the PSL for a select number of agencies for particularly niche positions.
• Foster long‑term relationships with past applicants and high‑potential talent.
• Culture, Engagement & Wellbeing Initiatives
• Lead site engagement activities, including pulse actions, wellbeing initiatives, local DEI conversations, and values‑based programmes.
• Support managers with wellbeing interventions, absence strategies, return‑to‑work plans, and early risk identification.
• Drive local initiatives that reinforce Elekta’s desired culture and employee experience.
• Change & Organisational Support
• Support organisational design discussions by providing local insight into structure, capability, and people impacts.
• Help leaders manage change through communication planning, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring smooth transition of people processes.
• Coordinate site‑level changes such as restructures, onboarding of new teams, or integration of new processes.
• Collaboration with Global HR Teams
• Work closely with People Services, Talent Acquisition, Reward, HRIS and other CoEs to deliver coherent HR services.
• Ensure…