As an HR Business Partner at Markel, you’ll build and maintain strong business relationships across assigned units, becoming a trusted partner. You’ll support business leaders in developing and achieving their people plans and will collaborate with the HR centre of excellence to deliver an industry leading people experience.  

You’ll partner with the Talent team on the Talent Cycle, including performance and talent calibration, skills analysis, and team reviews. Working with the Finance team on headcount forecasting and budget processes, you’ll collaborate with the recruitment team to ensure a cohesive recruitment experience. Supporting diversity and inclusion efforts, developing and supporting employee network activities. 

Additionally, you’ll assist leaders with the annual reward cycle and identify benchmarking requirements, reviewing data from the Total Reward team. Managing complex employee relations issues, including disciplinary actions, grievances, mental health, redundancies, and dismissals, will be part of your role. There may also be opportunities to manage and coach other team members. 

This role offers a dynamic and impactful opportunity to shape the HR landscape at Markel. 

Our must-haves: 

• Business Partnering experience within international organisations 

• Thrive in a fast-moving, growth environment 

• Enjoy being a lead contributor in a high-performing HR business partnering team  

• Experience with complex employee relations matters 

• Full end-to-end HR lifecycle knowledge, including payroll, benefits, administration, recruitment and onboarding  

• Pragmatic approach  

Who we are: 

Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.  

We’re all about people | We win together | We strive for better | We enjoy the everyday | We think further 

What’s in it for you? 

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package… 

• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave 

• Fantastic company pension scheme, private medical and dental cover, life assurance, travel insurance cover, income protection, season ticket loan as well as other great benefits on offer 

• There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career and we can provide the support needed to do just that! 

Are you ready to play your part? 

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.  

Markel celebrates the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.  

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with all reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at [email protected] or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations that may be needed. This includes any alternative formats of any documents or information on how to apply offline.