Vice President HR Business Partner

At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.

In this role the HR VP creates, agrees and delivers strategic HR initiatives in addition to designing and executing people and talent strategies. Furthermore they are responsible for driving and delivering long-term sustainable change aligned to the business priorities.

Main activities/responsibilities-

• Understand the commercial, internal and external environment that Pearson operates within including an in depth understanding of the specific functions supported
• Partner with senior management to identify and address the critical needs of the functions and achieve goals that support a long-range HR strategy
• Creates and owns the HR strategic plan in line with the wider functional plan
• Work with leadership team to provide strategic input and business rationale to support complex/large scale employee restructures
• Assess impacts and project manage M&A activity as required
• Ability to work cross functionally to ensure effective provision of HR services for the business area working closely with HR Operations, PPS and the HR hubs to deliver a seamless service
• Partner with the geographic teams to provide efficient and effective HR Hub services to all parts of Pearson ensuring legislative and audit compliance in all geographies and a high level of quality of advice and operational HR
• Partner with the HR CoE’s to ensure the needs of the functions and of Pearson globally are met in program design and delivery
• Willingness to take on global projects within HR working across Pearson, leading virtual teams and contributing to the progress of the whole company
• Provide professional advice and coaching to senior leaders in the business area on the implementation of HR policy and support delivery of employee lifecycle events such as pay review and performance and talent review
• Ensure global policies are delivered locally in an appropriate and legally compliant way. Provide input to global policies, ownership of any localised elements of policy
• Work with leadership team to provide strategic input and business rationales to support complex/large scale employee restructures
• Manage senior level employee relations matters
• Represent Pearson with employee forums, works councils and external bodies as required

Capabilities:

Organisationally Agile

• Provides context for change to empower others to understand their roles and adapt quickly.
• Captures and applies lessons learnt so that capabilities are quickly and continuously improved.

Influences without Authority

• In working with other parts of Pearson, is open to developing cross-functional processes to achieve shared outcomes.
• Applies different strategies to convince others to change their opinion or plan and wins support from others for ideas.

Builds Relationships

• Creates and maintains relationships, internally and externally, to increase simplicity, efficiency and shared success.
• Proactively supports other functions to create commercially practical and innovative solutions.

Evidence Informed

• Translates evidence into actionable insights that lead to improvements.
• Assesses and selects most appropriate methods, tools and data sources to collect the required evidence that enables decision-making.

Commercially Aware

• Interprets internal / external business challenges and creates commercially practical and innovative improvements to products and services in response.
• Develops a comprehensive understanding of the competitive landscape to inform operational decision making, create new business and (take advantage of opportunities to) reduce costs or generate growth.

Driven by Customer & Leavers Requirements

• Makes balanced operational decisions with profitability and customer/learner outcomes in mind.
• Takes personal accountability for ensuring that customer and learner insights are used to deliver market leading products and experiences at every touch point.

Business Partner

• Build trusted relationships by being aware of and managing one’s own emotions while at the same time reading, understanding and responding to the emotions of others.
• Resolve highly sensitive and high-profile conflicts to a mutually acceptable solution.
• Combine functional and business insights to provide highly impactful advice and challenge to senior leaders. Act in line with organizational needs, rising above the demands of any one stakeholder or influential group.
• Implement a transformational road map, in conjunction with key stakeholders, with a broad perspective and long-term timelines. Use internal and external benchmark data to provide insight and trend

Talent Management

• Applies talent planning frameworks to identify future talent gaps and identifies actions to fill the gap.
• Analyzes external trends and Pearson strategy to identify future functional and leadership talent requirements.
• Builds bench of talent in leadership and functional specialisms that support the Pearson Strategy

Org Design & Effectiveness

• Applies Pearson principles to define and implement cross-functional processes and interfaces with clear roles and accountabilities to align the organisation.
• Adapts tools and techniques from applicable change management toolkits and external models, to define and manage change projects with operational focus.
• Identifies the people impacts of change and plans communication to address key stakeholder needs through effective media.
• Adapts tools and techniques from the Global Toolkit and external models to lead change projects with strategic focus.

Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 20,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them. We are the world’s leading learning company. Learn more at pearsonplc.com.

Pearson believes that wherever learning flourishes, so do people. We are committed to being an anti-racist company in everything we do. We value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced, opportunities are accessible, consideration and respect are the norm, and all individuals are supported in reaching their full potential. Through our talent, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant place to work. People are at the center, and we are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace where talent can learn, grow, and thrive.

To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here: http://www.pearson.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion.html

Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.

Job: HUMAN RESOURCES

Organization: Virtual Learning

Schedule: FULL\_TIME

Req ID: 4832