People Business Partner - Maternity Leave Replacement

The People Business Partner is a pivotal position which is designed to support senior leaders and employees with strategic people and business leaders throughout the employee lifecycle. This role provides key strategic people support to the  global R&D (Research and Development) teams. The Business Partner will work in conjunction with the people team on organizational effectiveness and planning, talent management, talent engagement, and coaching and advising. Additionally, this role provides daily support to people leaders and employees, aligning with our company's people strategy and business goals. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic, global organization that encourages creative thinking.

What you'll do:

• Partner with the global R&D (Research and Development) and be a trusted advisor, creating strong and valuable working relationships.
• Define and deliver key people priorities for their business teams to support strategic goals and growth plans.
• Assist in developing HR programs and initiatives with the People Team including the functional leaders across Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, and People Operations.
• Champion our People Partnering operating model, educating the team where to best deliver their HR information based on their specific query.
• Develop mechanism to support business leaders through periods of transformation and change, acting as a change agent with a key focus on organizational effectiveness.
• Manage the complete employment journey for employees and create opportunities to foster and develop talent.
• Create talent management and retention plans for R&D team and ensure key talent is retained.
• Partner with internal teams and work cross functionally to ensure positive working solutions.
• Responsible for creating alliances across people team and be a thought leader for innovation in the team.

Who you are:

• Prior experience of at least 5+ years as a People Business Partner or Generalist role, ideally supporting R&D groups for a technology SaaS business with global employees. Cyber Security experience is a plus.
• Proven experience partnering and influencing senior business leaders in talent discussions.
• A strong understanding of performance management and IL labor law.
• Experience working effectively as part of a team, demonstrating initiative and proactively contributing ideas, views and recommendations for best practices and process improvement.
• Experience working in a exciting, high growth organization with a ability to deal with ambiguity.
• High interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to coach and influence leaders through difficult situations.
• Positive, ability to work well with a rapidly changing environment.
• Strong solution-oriented mindset.
• Ability to synthesize and tackle complex tasks autonomously with minimal coaching.
• Proven ability to gain credibility at all levels quickly; good demonstrable relationship management skills.
• Exposure across a broad HR remit including recruitment, performance management, talent management, promotions, retention, employee relations and visibility of compensation and budgeting.
• Ability to work efficiently with a high-level of accuracy and great attention to detail.
• Ability to collect, analyze, and distill information for management presentations