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What is Nexio? It’s a conscious shift into a new mindset. Change is inevitable but getting left behind is not. To keep up with our clients’ shifting needs, we’ve undergone a transformation of our own. From Stortech to Nexio. Drawing on our proud heritage as a leading data centre and storage specialist and systems integrator, we’ve evolved our business to become a trusted partner for your digital future.
Role requirement
People Planning
- Input to functional people plan that is fully aligned to Nexio/functional strategy.
- Drive delivery of functional initiatives on an on-going basis.
Organisation Effectiveness & Change
- Support and deliver functional change programmes and OE activity in business areas.
- Interface with key stakeholders to ensure alignment with cross- functional change activity.
- Input to monthly and quarterly organisation reviews.
- Deliver against FTE, contractor & employment Opex targets in business areas.
- Ensure organisation clarity & alignment in business areas, e.g., RACI, role profiles, role titles.
- Ensure data integrity of people related information in the business unit
- Drive organisation efficiency in business areas (ensuring compliance with agreed spans & layers targets)
- Act as tactical sparring partner, engaging on the effectiveness of the BU, processes, systems, data, and people.
- Drive the HR agenda within the BU, ensuring that all people managers are equipped and able to deliver against the annual recurring people management requirements.
- Propose, develop, and deliver key functional change programmes in collaboration with COE.
Culture Change
- Play key role in supporting leaders to live the Nexio way and related people/HR policies.
- Provide Leadership of cultural change in business areas/areas of responsibility.
- Challenge & improve people policies/processes/practices to ensure alignment with The Nexio Way and new ways of working.
- Challenge & support leaders in business areas to align behaviours/attitude to The Nexio Way and new ways of working.
- Ensure that the Health and Safety standards are maintained to group guidelines.
Performance and Reward
- Ensure active management of poor performers in business areas.
- Partner with the business leaders to drive group initiative on PD.
Talent and Resourcing
- Collaborate with the talent management team to deliver a pipeline of diverse future leaders and accelerate high potential development in functional business areas.
- Input to Talent Reviews across the function & follow through on outcomes in business areas; proactively use ‘talent matrix’; ensure robust talent, succession & scenario plans are in place, facilitating the performance and potential calibration.
- Support Diversity & Inclusion agenda in business areas.
- Key part in senior resourcing for business area (in partnership with Resourcing colleagues). Interview & calibrate agreed / key management in business areas.
- Play part in ensuring that resourcing processes are fully aligned to business requirements (attraction, selection, on-boarding, etc).
Leadership and Management Development
- Ensure understanding of management development programmes to ensure effective development at key transition points on the management/leadership ladder and drive uptake of development programmes relevant to BU specific priorities.
- Coach executives across business areas, in collaboration with COEs.
Organisational Capability
- Work with L&D to build critical functional capabilities to enable the business areas to deliver against their plans.
- Ensure functional induction framework is developed and implemented & core organisational on-boarding programmes are in place and being effectively used.
Communications & Engagement
- Partner with leadership to ensure teams have a clear understanding of the relationship between Nexio (business), functional, team and individual goals and their role in contributing towards delivery of the overall strategy.
- Partner with leadership to actively drive employee advocacy for Nexio products and services.
- Focus the business areas on continuously improving employee engagement & by facilitating the development of People Survey action plan etc.
Relationship Management & Partnering
- Build a high ‘support & challenge’ relationship with leadership team members.
- ‘Walk the tightrope’ of being part of the business areas yet maintaining an objective HR perspective.
- Actively support all talent programmes.
- Support Graduate Programme in business areas.
Qualifications/Experience
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
- A relevant 3yr degree/diploma (e.g. Human Resources, Personnel Management, Industrial Psychology,
- Business Management, etc,) – essential
- A post-graduate qualification will be advantageous.
- At least 6-8 years’ applicable experience as a Human Resources generalist, as well as proven experience in the management of a Human Resources section/division.
- 2yrs experience as an HR professional interfacing with senior leadership in corporate environment.
- Foundational knowledge and /or experience in Change management, people organisation plans.
- Exposure to coaching leaders for behaviour change.