Senior Business Partner, Employee Relations

School/Department: Human Resources & Development
Based at: Cranfield Campus, Cranfield, Bedfordshire
Hours of work: 37 hours per week. Flexible working will be considered.
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range of £45,751 to £50,798 per annum, with potential progression up to £63,059 per annum
Apply by:15/03/2023

Role Description

We are a University with ambitious and distinctive characteristics and welcome applications from passionate HR professionals to join our community.

About the Role

At this exciting point in our journey, in the first year of our new Corporate Plan  and People Strategy  we are seeking a new Senior Business Partner, with Employee Relations knowledge and experience. This is a wide-ranging HR role. 

As an ER specialist, you will provide expertise and capacity to the university’s employee relations cases, and support our TU relationships and wider HR operations and projects.  In addition to this specialist role, you will provide a customer service driven business partnering service, supporting senior stakeholders at Cranfield’s Professional Services and Subsidiaries.  This includes MKU, an exciting new model university in Milton Keynes, and our commercial Airport. Reporting to the Head of People Operations and Inclusion, you will be supported by a HR Business Partner and a range of centralised university services.

About You

You do not need to have university sector experience, and we welcome applications from individuals who are able to influence and partner successfully with a range of stakeholders. You will be a senior HR generalist who is MCIPD qualified (or equivalent experience), with demonstrable ER experience. Your ER approach will be pragmatic and solutions focussed.

About Us

As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally. Learn more about Cranfield and our unique impact here .

This specialist Senior Business Partner role forms part of the People & Culture professional service.  We are in the first year of our 5 year corporate plan (Ambition 2027) and people strategy, and you will play an instrumental role in supporting our stakeholders to deliver this this.

Our Values and Commitments

We recognise and value the different perspectives that diversity and equitable practice can bring to our working, learning and research community. We therefore positively encourage expressions of interest from people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds and the LGBTQ+, community who are currently underrepresented at Cranfield.

Our shared, stated values help to define who we are and underpin everything we do: Ambition; Impact; Respect; and Community. Find out more here .

We aim to create and maintain a culture in which everyone can work and study together and realise their full potential. Find out about our key commitments to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Flexible Working here . We are proud to be in the top 30  employers for working families,  a Disability Confident Employer and proud members of the Stonewall Diversity Champions Programme.

Working Arrangements

Collaborating and connecting are integral to so much of what we do. Our Working Arrangements Framework provides many staff with the opportunity to flexibly combine on-site and remote working, where job roles allow, balancing the needs of our community of staff, students, clients and partners.

Interviews to be held: 28 March 2023