HR Business Partner

Job Title: HR Business Partner – UK Manufacturing

Department:
Human Resources

Location:
Hamble, Southampton

Working Hours:
Mon – Fri, 37.5 hours per week

Cooper Vision is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses with a presence in over 100 countries. Being part of Cooper Vision means helping improve the way people see each day. It’s more than making contact lenses, it’s about giving lens wearers freedom and confidence to move about their daily lives. We’re all about bright futures – for our people and those who wear our contact lenses.

To provide proactive, value adding, strategically aligned support to managers, leaders and key stakeholders in their area in the development and the delivery of people strategies. This role is based in a fast-paced environment, and will support particular business areas within Cooper Vision, with expertise across a wide range of disciplines and activities. The HR Business Partner will be empowered to work with their business unit(s) and to have an active part to make a difference to our success.

The HR Business Partner (HRBP) works closely with managers and leaders to align people strategies with organisational goals, acting as a trusted advisor on workforce planning, talent, culture, and employee experience. This role provides strategic guidance on people matters, supports leadership capability, and drives initiatives that enhance performance, engagement, and organisational effectiveness. The HRBP collaborates with centres of excellence including Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, HR Business Services, Total Rewards and others to deliver integrated HR solutions, using data and insight to influence decision making and improve outcomes.

A key focus of the role is to build strong relationships with stakeholders, championing organisational values, and ensure people practices are fair, consistent, and aligned with long term business priorities; ensuring all advice given is compliant with legislation adhering to company policies and best practice.

The role has many diverse features and requires a high degree of flexibility and multi-tasking to ensure a brighter future for all our employees, customers and stakeholders.

• Proactively partnering and supporting managers in driving strategic HR discussions. Contributing to the development of their business area by ensuring that the local HR is aligned to the overall business strategy.
• Provide advice and support to 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.
• Working collaboratively with L&D to support and implement development and training solutions to retain and develop our internal talent.
• Working closely with the Talent Acquisition team to ensure talent resourcing plans are met and interviewing managers are provided with the necessary tools and training to successfully attract, assess and select candidates in line with business needs.
• Working with the ER team to provide expert case guidance to ensure fair, consistent and legally compliant advice on people decisions.
• Liaising with Occupational Health as necessary on absence and capability case management.
• Driving manager development and capability through supporting them by coaching on people related decisions and providing clarity on appropriate actions.
• Identifying improvements to Policies, Procedures and practices to support the business in managing people issues more effectively.
• Producing and processing any necessary correspondence, on behalf of managers, relating to all areas of Human Resources and Employee Relations cases to ensure that all documentation is accurate, aligned with best practice and is maintained and updated to reflect outcomes/situational circumstances.
• Recommend and implement processes that aid the communication and dissemination of the corporate vision and values with any ad hoc duties and projects, specifically in identifying and driving improvement…