Location: London,England,United Kingdom

People Partner

Where the job is based: London (Hybrid - a mix of home-based & working from Kerv UK HQ, 1 Finsbury Avenue, London, UK EC2M 2PF)

About Us:

At Kerv our mission is to harness the power of technology for the good of our people, our customers, our society and our planet.  We achieve this through our specialist practices deliver amazing digital transformations that help our customers stay ahead.  This is only made possible by extraordinary employee and customer experiences. 

Under four years old and 700+ team members strong employees, we are continuing our exciting period of transformation and growth.  Our growth has included the acquisition of seven highly successful organisations.

 We are bound by five values that define how we think, behave and work with all our colleagues, clients, partners and stakeholders.

About the role:

This is a role that has been created due to organisation development and growth and will guide and support our business in creating an outstanding employee experience and success. 

The role will be involved all aspects of the employee lifecycle, working with our leaders and their teams (alongside the People team) with a focus on partnering across our (practices and functions to accelerate and support performance and employee experience.  It will also lead and support on project activity to deliver on our strategic priority Inspired People. 

Your part to play:

You will be at the forefront of the design and delivery of our people focused strategy and initiatives.   Employee success (whether it is acquiring, developing or retaining our talent) will be the measure of your success - you will be expected to provide advice and support to all across all employee touchpoints. 

Working with the practices/functions from supporting the creation of, implementing and then advising on talent management practices. In delivering this you will be expected to seek and implement constant improvements. 

 Elements include:

• Business partnering – support leaders in the development of their functions, teams and employees across talent management, organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, and employee engagement and relations.
• Engagement – oversee on engagement elements (both developing and running) to build culture and deliver Inspired People, utilise data to instigate proactive changes.
• Across-Kerv – spearhead and support on Kerv wide opportunities.
• Due to the nature of the role and the critical relationships developed with stakeholders, you will be expected to spend some of your working week in our London office

All about You:

You will have worked in a similar role and will relish the opportunity to take accountability for building engagement in teams and People excellence.

Exposure to all aspects of employee lifecycle, in particular talent management, learning and development and building engagement.

You will be:

• Self-starting with an eye for detail and completer finisher skills
• Pragmatic challenge solver, no job is too small or too big
• Able to manage multiple priorities with a strong customer focus
• Capable of analysing data and insights and turning those into actions
• Excellent relationship building skills.  Strong communicator able to work across multiple companies and stakeholders
• Hungry to learn and develop

You will live the Kerv values.......

• Think Customer First
• Team Is Everything
• Do The Right Thing
• Build Future
• Spread Good Vibes

At Kerv, we're building something special and we're building it to last.  We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together.  With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing.  We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.