Lead- HR

Job Description

Overview

 

This role is responsible for managing people and employee experience matters within the aligned business area, translating agreed people priorities into practical interventions and ensuring their consistent and effective implementation, while working closely with HRBPs who connect broader business priorities and challenges to the people agenda.

 

Your role

 

Change Management

• Lead and implement assigned change initiatives within the aligned business area.
• Develop and execute communication, stakeholder engagement and adoption plans that support successful business transformation and sustainable change outcomes.
• Ensure that adequate training sessions, workshops, support mechanisms and resources are provided to enable smooth transitions.
• Monitor the success of change initiatives, readiness, adoption levels, and business outcomes, recommending corrective actions where required.
• Contribute to or lead defined cross-business people projects aligned with organisational priorities. 

Talent Management

• Talent management: Drive assigned talent programmes, including promotions, career development and retention initiatives, ensuring timely execution and effective follow-through within the aligned business area.
• Learning programme nominations: Partner with Learning & Talent Development (L&TD) to identify development needs and nominate key and core talent for capability-building programmes and interventions.
• High potential employees: Partner with managers and HRBPs to identify high potential talent, conduct career and development conversations, and drive completion of agreed development actions.
• Career Conversations: Drives effective career conversations and partner with managers for creating individual development plans for talent.
• Talent lists: Ensure talent lists are always updated and accessible on all platforms, while maintaining oversight of talent pools & development plans.
• Talent hotspots and proactive talent management: Undertake tactical activities related to talent management, including engaging with vulnerable groups, identifying hotspots, and proactive engagement. 

Employee Engagement and Experience

• Employee Engagement: Drive employee experience-related outcomes such as the annual employee engagement survey, Great Places to Work certification, and internal interventions while ensuring that identified action plans are implemented and progress is monitored.
• Employee Engagement survey results: Analyse engagement results and workforce sentiment trends through the survey results and support business and ambassadors in driving implementation of action plans.
• Employee Listening Sessions: Lead and conduct focus groups, employee forums, and listening sessions to understand workforce concerns and translate insights into meaningful actions.
• Employee Experience: Drive hire to retire employee experience related activities, leveraging employee feedback and workforce insights to assess effectiveness, identify improvement opportunities, and partner with HR Services to implement continuous enhancements that strengthen employee engagement, retention, and overall lifecycle experience.

Retention and Attrition Management

• Retention discussions: Conduct retention discussions and stay interviews with identified talent population and employee groups, advising the business on appropriate retention actions and interventions.
• Retention Initiatives: Drive and coordinate retention initiatives with managers, HRBPs and COEs, monitoring effectiveness and escalating emerging workforce risks where appropriate.
• Merit and PDR process: Support and guide business managers and HRBPs during Merit and PDR processes, ensuring focus on diversity, high potential, and early career groups.

Advisory and Manager Support

• Advisory: Act as a trusted advisor to managers and emerging leaders, providing guidance, insights and recommendations that support workforce planning, talent management, employee engagement and informed business decision-making.
• Performance management: Drive the consistent application of performance management processes across the aligned business area while advising managers on timely, fair and evidence-based performance actions.
• Employee development: Build manager accountability for meaningful development discussions and career growth planning, ensuring employees have effective development and progression opportunities.
• Employee Relations: Independently manage standard and moderately complex employee relations cases within the aligned business area, providing managers with evidence-based advice and ensuring cases are handled fairly, consistently and promptly in accordance with company policies, established procedures and applicable legal requirements, while engaging the Employee Relations team for complex, sensitive or higher-risk matters requiring specialist guidance.
• Recognition: Drives the culture of recognition in business aligned area.

Operational and Project Management

• HR Projects & People Processes: Own the business-facing coordination and delivery of assigned HR Projects and cyclical people programmes, including Merit, Promotions, Bonuses and Salary Corrections, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder communication and timely completion.
• COE collaboration: Work with COEs to manage lifecycle escalations and critical cases, including partnering with the Reward COE to monitor WoW utilization data and provide advice to the business and HRBPs as needed.
• Improvement Projects: Lead improvement, automation and employee experience initiatives that drive simplification and efficiency.

Data and Insights

• Communicate using data reports: Analyse workforce, talent, engagement, retention and attrition data to identify trends, risks and opportunities, providing actionable insights and recommendations to leaders, HRBPs and other stakeholders to support informed decision-making.
  
  

About you

 

• Relevant experience in HR, People Experience / Operations or a comparable people-focused role.
• Experience with driving change implementation programs & planning, coordinating, executing, and evaluating projects.
• Experience independently managing standard and moderately complex employee relations matters.
• Demonstrated experience in delivering talent programmes, employee engagement activities and HR projects.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide trusted advice, communicate with impact, influence people-related decisions and constructively challenge stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence people-related decisions and translate business and employee needs into practical interventions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate workforce insights into practical actions.
• Ability to assert independent views and willingness to challenge

• Collaborative, proactive and delivery-focused, with sound judgement and the ability to manage multiple priorities.

 

Rewards & benefits

 

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career.

This includes:

• Comprehensive life insurance coverage.
• Premium medical insurance for you and your dependents.
• Generous annual leave balance.
• Flexible and hybrid work solutions.
• Remote work opportunities outside of country.
• Company gratuity scheme.
• Discretionary bonus program.
• Relocation assistance.
• Employee Wellbeing Program: 24/7 access to specialists in finance, legal matters, family care, personal health, fitness, and nutrition.

Seize every opportunity to sharpen your skills, expand your expertise, and be recognized for the impact you make.

 

About AtkinsRéalis

 

We're AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world's infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We're committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Find out more.

 

Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.