Human Resources Business Partner - Mandarin Speaking

Key Responsibilities: Relationships Be a connection and channel between management teams and employees. Build strong stakeholder relationships with senior management across the UK Build effective communication between UK branches and HQ in China relating to HR aspects. Provide clear guidance and support across a range of HR issues including employment law, HR best practice and analysis of key metric data. Coach and influence discussions with designated business areas on organisational design to support business strategies, demonstrating vision and best practice, whilst ensuring compliance with policy and procedure. Change Management Support and influence the key stages of organisational change ensuring a consistent approach across all business areas, providing clear communication on the reasons for change to all stakeholders. Act as the performance improvement driver and create positive changes in people management, in the long, medium and short term. Share responsibility within the HR Division for developing the HR strategy and HR policies and ensure that they represent leading-edge HR practice, improve organisational effectiveness, facilitate change and effect employee engagement. Interpret and implement HQ HR policy and process changes. People Advocacy Proactively support and embed the delivery of Succession Planning and leadership development. Ensure robust plans are in place and reviewed regularly. Take responsibility for raising the awareness of engagement and driving the implementation of employee engagement initiatives. Responsible for contributing to the generation of an environment of trust and fairness. People Development Coach line managers on leadership behaviours and ensure that individual and group development plans exist to close any gaps. Act as a coach to individual managers and teams to ensure leadership behaviour is aligned to the company’s values; enabling leaders and senior managers to deal successfully with people management issues, develop their capability in effective performance management, employee engagement, talent development and retention. Transactional Expertise Advise and support managers on ER cases e.g. disciplinaries, grievances, absence management and performance management. Work with our legal team to ensure the site is compliant across employment law and legislation. Use and manage multiple HR systems to aid daily HR operations. Person Specification: Required: Knowledge of UK Employment Law and Agency Worker Regulations. Supporting multiple stakeholders including Senior Leaders. Experience with delivering strategic tasks Experience with culture change management Desired: Language skills: Predominately English, however candidates that can also speak Mandarin, would be of great interest

Location: Ipswich, UK, GB

Posted Date: 7/14/2025