Global HR Business Partner - Product / Product Engineering

Job Description

We are looking for an HR Business Partner to join our Global HR Business Partnering team and support leaders across our Product and Product Engineering organisations.

This is a varied role. You will combine business partnering for a defined client group with programme, project and analytical support across the wider HRBP team. You will act as a trusted thought partner to leaders - providing coaching and constructive challenge on organisational and people matters. You will help drive the belonging and inclusion agenda across all HR levers (talent, reward, culture learning, etc) in service of creating a world class culture of talent.

You will also help the wider team operate effectively by anticipating upcoming requirements, simplifying processes, coordinating shared activities and using data to generate practical insights.

Key Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with leaders and develop a strong understanding of their business, people and priorities.

• Provide strategic thought partnership, coaching, advice and constructive challenge, guiding leaders through organisational change and a wide range of people and business issues.

• Support workforce planning, talent, compensation, performance management, calibration and other cyclical HR processes, ensuring clear communication, high-quality decisions and a positive stakeholder experience.

• Drive the belonging and inclusion agenda across all HR levers in service of building a world-class culture of talent.

• Partner with Regional HR and Employee Relations to guide first-line managers and employees on policies, people processes and complex people issues, including relations cases.

• Partner with HR Centres of Excellence and other stakeholders to design, recommend and deliver relevant talent programmes and solutions.

• Manage strategic projects and coordinate activities across the wider HRBP team.

• Identify opportunities to simplify, centralise and improve existing processes.

• Analyse people data, using tools such as Workday, Excel and AI-enabled analytics, and translate findings into practical recommendations.

• Help the team anticipate key deadlines, requirements and emerging priorities.

• Lead or support M&A due diligence and integration activity as required.

• Balance day-to-day business partnering with broader team and programme responsibilities.

Required Qualifications

• Proven broader HR experience, including a solid track record in an HR business partnering role, ideally at management level.

• Experience working in a large, complex or matrixed organisation.

• Strong relationship-building, coaching and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence leaders and individuals across the business and build credible relationships quickly.

• Strong judgment and a balanced blend of business and people acumen.

• Working knowledge of employee relations and the ability to advise on policy and complex people matters.

• Experience delivering HR projects or programmes alongside business partnering responsibilities.

• Experience building or improving processes and ways of working.

• Strong data and analytical skills, with confidence using Workday or other HRIS, Excel and PowerPoint, and an interest in using AI tools to work more effectively.

• Strong organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities and deadlines.

• Clear, effective written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

• A high sense of ownership, urgency and drive, with a proactive, collaborative and low-ego approach.

• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and ambiguity.

• Interest in learning about Product and Product Engineering functions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience supporting Product and/or Technology teams.

• Experience working in both a large organisation and a smaller, faster-moving environment.

• Exposure to mergers, acquisitions or organisational integration.

• Previous involvement in workforce, performance or compensation analysis.

• Experience leading or contributing to belonging and inclusion initiatives.

• Experience supporting globally distributed teams.

• Completion of an HR rotational or leadership development programme.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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