Skills

Communication Swift SAP Coaching Team Spirit Analytical Skills Process Improvement Analytics

Job Specifications

MPI requires an Associate HR Business Partner, for our client based in Birmingham

Title: Associate HRBP

Rate: £23.00 - £25.00 per hour PAYE

Location: Birmingham

Department: People Services

Duration: ASAP until 27th March 2026

Hybrid: Weds and Thurs in the office

Working Hours: 35 hours per week

Interview process: 2 stage panel interviews

Key responsibilities:

To act as an internal consultant, contracting on key activity required by the Division.
Effective growth and management of a key relationships within the business and/or the wider HR Team to enable swift and accurate response to requests for support.
To proactively highlight or support on complex queries, and requests received by the divisional team, ensuring they are either resolved or managed appropriately.
To understand what is important to the Division and their Business Leaders, through being visible and present within both the HR, and wider business environment.
Keep a focus on continuous improvement opportunities, and take accountability for developing options to resolve; or set out proposals and options to improve.
Use internal agreed escalation paths to proactively deal with queries from the divisions.
To ensure collaboration across the Divisional team and/or People Services to promote a culture of continuous improvement, and share/learn from each other.
For roles embedded in People Services, responsible for raising profile of People Services, helping the business to understand routes into HR by being an advocate for our digital and self-service approach.
Accountable for the delivery of quality and timely work, which meets or exceeds the businesses expectations.
To provide internal support within the wider HR and/or People Services team for activities linked to the wider BBC HR agenda.
To foster a culture of service excellence, role-modelling this and coaching team to deliver customer focus and management of expectations.
Use data and analytics to measure the effectiveness people solutions and understand the landscape for further improvement.
Work collaboratively with colleagues acrossHR team, facilitating two-way communication between the business, translating business requirements and needs back into the HR and/or People Services function.
Actively look to embed knowledge transfer both within the division being supported, the divisional support team or the wider HR team.

Be an ambassador for the function and representHR internally and externally (as appropriate).

Essential

Strong HR Advisor or BP experience

Experience of working in complex / matrix structures

Experience of working in complex / matrix structures
Able to harness IT tools and systems to enable your performance
Able to demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and ability to develop, maintain and enhance relationships with a variety of contacts; strong influencing and persuading skills
Analytical skills and the ability to resolve logistically complex problems
Compares and contrasts situations and information, identifying patterns and trends which inform subsequent decisions
Creates a sense of team spirit, encouraging shared ownership of objectives and deliverables
Be a role model
Use of process improvement tools and their application
Ability to grow productive and meaningful relationships within the business and HR teams
Self-generate development opportunities and take ownership for own career growth

Desirable

Prior experience of working with people systems (such as SAP)
Prior experience of working in a centralised / shared service centre environment (for roles embedded in People Services)
Experience of delivering a HR Partnering approach

About the Company

MPI Limited 60 years Improving customers flexibility and efficiency through supply of specialist engineering staff for temporary or permanent roles. Industry expert suppliers working collaboratively to provide a competent, innovative and cost effective service. Engineering, Aviation, Rail, Rolling Stock, Automation are just some of the industries we have been supplying to over the years. Know more