This role is your opportunity to join a HR team that is focussed on attracting, engaging and developing the world's best talent to revolutionize the world through Quantum Computing?. At Quantinuum we have gone through a period of rapid growth and now our focus on the talent agenda to support the development of our amazing team to achieve our very ambitious scaling and technical plans.
In this role you will be the face of HR to your selected client groups (science, software engineering and functions) as well as being involved and leading some exciting global projects and initiatives. Your proactive approach will naturally lead you to deliver an outstanding employee experience, whilst excelling in implementing comprehensive people plans and developing our leaders to support the growth of Quantinuum.
Your ability to champion a high-performance culture will be instrumental in coaching and upskilling senior leaders to provide clear direction and line managers to deliver continuous feedback and development. You have a proven track record in introducing new talent processes, developing line managers and managing employee relations issues, including disciplinary and grievance procedures, with professionalism and fairness.
You will partner with Centres of Expertise to develop effective hiring strategies and ensure that teams are equipped with the right talent for current and future needs. By fostering talent moves, succession planning, and career development within the UK team, you will drive a culture of growth and provide clear pathways for career progression.
Key Responsibilities
- Be the senior HR business partner to identified client groups providing support and coaching to people leaders on talent and culture initiatives, such as:
- Support managers in building and leading successful teams by offering expertise and mentoring on appropriate people management practices.
- Provide thought partnership on people-related initiatives and their execution, as well as insights to guide decision-making and offer proactive solutions.
- Contribute and implement robust talent management action plans to identify and fill competency, knowledge and talent gaps alongside retaining key talent (engagement, succession planning, learning and development, performance management, assessment, compensation planning, recruiting etc.).
- Ensure that functional and individual goals are aligned through effective implementation of performance management processes.
- Raise awareness of current and anticipated people opportunities, challenges and risks to inform current and future people related decisions and activity.
- Develop HR reporting and analytics for your business areas to monitor and measure trends.
- Work closely with people leaders in managing employee relations cases such as health and wellbeing support through occupational health, performance management, long and short-term sickness absence, flexible working requests, disciplinaries, grievances, investigation, end of contract support including probation and restructures.
- Deliver an outstanding employee experience to the region and selected client groups.
- Collaborate with regional HR and global centre of excellence teams to facilitate regional and country specific delivery of HR services such as HR operations, HRIS, Talent Management & Compensation & Benefits.
- Support the global talent acquisition team to drive the recruitment process to attract and recruit world class experience and emerging talent.
- Responsible for developing and delivering HR Programs, best practices, and people solutions.
- Design and implement relevant polices and processes and projects, with effective change management.
- Build credible relationships with key leadership, management, business partners and peers globally by combining commercial and HR expertise that adds value to the business.
What we require
- You will have 8+ years' experience as a HR business partner or HR manager.
- Able to build relationships quickly, understand business and build proactive people agendas and demonstrate strong influencing skills.
- Be comfortable at acting with pace, with a huge amount of change and ambiguity that goes alongside a rapidly scaling science led tech business.
- A self-starter, you will be able to work independently, see opportunities and devise plans to make a positive impact.
What we prefer
- Experience in a scaling scientific or tech business.
- A talent-based outlook with a passion for talent management, development of leaders, career development and positive performance management.
- CIPD qualified or similar (ideally level 7).
- Commercially savvy, you are able to influence, challenge and interpret business direction into strategic and tactical plans, with a resilient but natural style that brings the business and teams together.
- A thought partner who demonstrates a good balance of emotional intelligence with pragmatic judgement.
- Ability to travel to our offices in Cambridge, Oxford and London, as required, balanced through a hybrid working approach.
What is in it for you?
Working alongside a highly talented team, with leading names in the quantum computing industry. We offer a highly competitive package, equity, 28 days of paid holiday (in addition to public holidays), a workplace pension, a positive approach to flexible working and enhanced parental and adoption benefits.
About Us:
Science Led, Enterprise Driven – Accelerating Quantum Computing
Quantinuum is the world's largest integrated quantum company, pioneering powerful quantum computers and advanced software solutions. Quantinuum's technology drives breakthroughs in materials discovery, cybersecurity, and next-gen quantum AI. With approximately 500 employees, including 370+ scientists and engineers, Quantinuum leads the quantum computing revolution across continents.
Quantinuum recently secured $300m in funding, visit our news pages to learn more about this and other Quantinuum scientific breakthroughs and achievements:https://www.quantinuum.com/news
Please note that employment with us is subject to successfully passing our pre-employment screening checks. We are an inclusive equal opportunity employer. You will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.
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