Company purpose:
Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.
Our employer promise is built around three pillars:
• Being a great place to work
• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact
• Being dedicated to the development of our people
Business area
The UK CIB HR Department supports CIB staff and managers in London, providing them with a full range of strategic advisory and transactional services (in terms of payroll, reward, pension and benefits, recruitment, career management, learning & development and employee relations). In regular contact with the Group HR Department of BNP Paribas S.A. (headquartered in Paris), CIB HR is the entry point for all CIB employees on any HR issue.
Job Purpose
This position will provide strategic recruitment business partnering to the management of agreed client groups, delivering cost effective recruitment solutions to support the key objectives and business strategy. The role will partner closely with the business hiring managers to drive the resourcing strategy. In addition a key requirement for this role will be to build on the effective working relationships with HR stakeholders across EMEA.
Key responsibilities
- Manage the delivery of the end to end recruitment cycle for agreed client groups including, but not limited to reviewing CV's, interviewing, maintaining accurate databases & hiring trackers, benchmarking, negotiating offers, issuing contracts and driving the approval process with business managers and HR.
- Partner with the agreed client groups to align resourcing outcomes with the strategic business initiatives.
- Establish good working relationships with the HR Business Partners and become a trusted advisor to business stakeholders.
- Engage in and promote internal mobility within the Group.
- Ensure strict adherence to the policy and procedures and ensure no controls are missed.
- Maintain and review the Applicant Tracking System, including but not limited to; logging interviews, ensuring candidates are loaded onto the system where necessary, creation of job requisitions, interview feedback tracking and long lists, etc.
- Provision of market information to Business/HR managers.
- Support HR Business Partners in salary/compensation benchmarking exercises.
- Be involved in ad hoc projects when required.
- Proactively drive excellence in all aspects of the recruitment process.
Requirements
Skills & Experience Required
- Understanding of the end to end recruitment process,
- Experience of working with a highly demanding client group.
- Proven ability to work under pressure in a deadline driven and rapidly changing environment.
- Understanding of competency based interviewing.
- Excellent negotiation skills, able to mediate difficult discussions and achieve win-win compromises.
- Excellent communicator, comfortable communicating and influencing at all levels of seniority and able to adapt their style based on the audience.
- Good IT Systems and Tools experience
- Familiarity with market trends, salary levels and competitor activity
- Solutions based approach to problem solving
- Continuous learner that can demonstrate the ability to learn complex topics quickly
- Commercially astute
- Highly structured and organised
And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).
A bit more about why you should join us
1. We’re a great place to work
We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)
We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:
• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.
• Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.
• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.
• Key onsite services and facilities in London – include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.
• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.
* Subject to relevant caps
2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.
For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.
But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.
3. We believe in our people
We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.
We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally.
Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:
• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.
• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:
Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.
Equal opportunities
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.
Adjustments
We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.
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