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About WRBC Services

WRBC Services is the Centralised Support Functions organisation for the WR Berkley Corporation’s UK and European businesses. We provide essential expertise across:

HR
Finance & Accounting
Tax
Legal & Compliance
Facilities Management

By handling these core operational functions, we free our underwriting units to focus on client service, growth, and market excellence. Our model delivers:

✨ Operational Efficiency – Strong frameworks and consistent processes✨ Flexibility – Local decision‑making within a decentralised business structure✨ Business Enablement – Supporting underwriting teams to excel while we manage critical support functions

This role sits at the heart of that mission.

The Opportunity

As an HR Business Partner, you will deliver a credible, strategic, and solutions‑focused HR partnering service to our UK‑based business units. You will work directly with senior leaders to understand their objectives, design people strategies, and embed a culture where individuals and teams can flourish.

You will influence, advise, challenge, coach, and collaborate — acting as a true partner, not just a support function.

This is a role with real breadth, covering Employee Relations, performance, talent, reward, payroll oversight, data insights, and organisational development. No two days are the same.

Key Responsibilities

Employee Relations

Provide expert guidance across the employee lifecycle, ensuring high‑quality, timely and compliant HR support.
Advise on complex Employee Relations matters, working closely with the Director of HR and external legal counsel as needed.
Mitigate risk proactively and ensure fair, consistent, and people‑centric decision making.

Talent Management & Performance

Coach leaders on talent acquisition, selection, onboarding and capability development.
Support and strengthen our performance management culture.
Identify trends using people data to support high performance and address areas for improvement.
Partner with WRBC Talent Development to deliver learning programmes and progression pathways.

Reward, Recognition & Payroll

Support the HR Director in delivering reward strategies and annual compensation cycles.
Provide insights on salary benchmarking and benefits competitiveness.
Manage monthly payroll processing with our external provider — ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and robust controls.
Oversee relationships with benefits brokers and providers.

People Data, Reporting & Analytics

Interpret people metrics to drive decision making and support business planning.
Provide accurate, timely HR reporting across units.

Culture, Engagement & Wellbeing

Partner with leaders to promote engagement, belonging and empowerment.
Support our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) strategy, embedding inclusive practices throughout the business.
Champion wellbeing across social, financial, mental and physical pillars.

Strategy, Change & Organisational Design

Support development of People Strategies that align with business needs.
Contribute to culture change initiatives, organisational design, and change management projects.

Compliance, Governance & Regulatory Support

Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, GDPR, SMCR, and governance frameworks.
Support annual certification and regulatory processes where required.

Qualifications

You will bring:

CIPD qualification (or equivalent experience).
A background in the Insurance Market.
Strong, current knowledge of UK Employment Law and Employee Relations.
Broad generalist experience across HR disciplines.
Experience partnering with leaders from multiple business units, ideally in a shared‑service or multi‑site model.
Strong numerical skills and confidence with HR data (Excel at intermediate level).
Experience managing or overseeing payroll.
A collaborative, open‑minded and solutions‑driven approach.
Ability to challenge constructively, influence credibly, and communicate with impact.
Resilience, adaptability, and willingness to get hands‑on when needed.

Berkley

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