Reporting to Senior Associate People and Culture Business Partner
About Packt
Packt is a global, technical learning publisher with a turnover of 18m and over 400 employees based across the globe, primarily in India and the UK. Principally serving B2C customers across the world, its major clients also include Microsoft, IBM, and Oracle.
We are a leading publisher of technical learning content with the ability to publish content on new and emerging tech faster than any other publisher in the world. Our mission is to increase the shared value of deep tech knowledge. We are tech content engineers, and we work with some of the most interesting technical minds and ground-breaking creators on the planet. For more details, see www.packt.com
Job summary:
The Associate Human Resources Business Partner will play a crucial role in supporting our HR initiatives and ensuring a positive employee experience across the organization. This role reports to the Human Resources Business Partner and collaborates closely with various departments to deliver HR services and solutions.
The Associate Pamp;C BP is responsible for managing the employee lifecycle. This role plays an important role in providing appropriate solutions to employee issues in ensuring the Pamp;C department is a highly regarded service focused department adding value to the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Employee Relations:
- Assist in managing employee relations issues, including investigations, conflict resolution, and disciplinary actions.
- Provide guidance to employees and managers on HR policies and procedures.
- Have a deep understanding of talent within the Business unit
- Design and maintain appropriate talent data sheets as required
Recruitment and Onboarding
- Collaborate with the Talent Acquisition team to support the recruitment process, including job posting, screening, and interviewing.
- Own and implement the onboarding process for new hires, ensuring a smooth transition into the company.
HR Administration:
- Create and maintain accurate HR records and documentation as required
- Support performance management processes by tracking performance evaluations, providing guidance to managers, and assisting in performance improvement plans.
Policy Compliance:
- Assist in updating and communicating HR policies and procedures.
HR Projects:
- Own and implement HR projects and initiatives
Employee Engagement
- Own and implement parts of the Employee Engagement program as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree (any)
- Diploma/MBA in HRM (Not required)
- 2-4 years of work experience as a generalist or Junior HR BP
- Good Understanding of HR practices
Soft Skills
- Excellent English communication skills
- Good interpersonal skills
- Eye for detail
- Planning and organizational skills
- Accountability
- Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, often changing environment
- Results driven
- Ability to handle confidential information
- Ability to work independently
- Customer focus
Technical skills
- Good MS Excel, word, and Power point
- Ability to work on different platforms and tools
- Open to assist on creating new Pamp;C tools
Why work at Packt?
We recognize how important our people are to the success of our business and acknowledge and support the things that are important to them. We focus on the full team member experience. We aim to create a positive working environment that supports personal and collective development where our people can not only grow their skill sets, continuously challenge themselves, and develop their careers, but also work together as a team and with our customers.
We try to achieve this by:
- Ensuring a positive working environment for all team members, supportive of flexible and remote work.
- Supporting individual development through growth opportunities and internal mobility.
- Encouraging social collaboration within teams and communities and knowledge-sharing.
- Fostering a culture that supports a healthy work-life balance.
We seek to achieve this by:
- Providing a broad range of benefits and initiatives.
- Advocating a healthy lifestyle where well-being is seen as an essential responsibility.
- Celebrating success stories and encouraging peer-to-peer recognition.
- Fostering a culture of self-development.
- Providing a work environme