HR Business Partner: Elekta

The HR Business Partner provides high‑quality, reactive and proactive HR support to leaders and employees across a designated site or business area.

They support complex employee relations matters, act as a trusted advisor to managers, and contribute to local HR policy updates, site compliance activities, and people‑related initiatives.

This role bridges the space between tactical HR delivery and emerging strategic partnership — supporting culture, capability development, organisational change, and continuous improvement.

Employee Relations — Complex & Multi‑Stakeholder Cases

• Proactively and thoughtfully address workplace and employee relations matters.
• Support the handling of performance concerns, long‑term sickness, grievances, disciplinaries, and sensitive employee matters, ensuring legal compliance and accurate documentation.
• Provide coaching to managers on options, best practice and people processes, escalating issues appropriately to the Head of HR or Legal when required.
• Support process consistency and good case management practices, keeping up to date with evolving local legislation and highlighting any required policy updates.
• Contribute to identifying root causes of recurring ER issues and support initiatives aimed at addressing those causes.

Policy Ownership & Compliance

• Review and communicate HR policies, ensuring alignment with global policies, local legal requirements, and organisational standards as required.
• Support business line HR audits, compliance checks, and mandatory documentation reviews (absence, training, certificates, Workday accuracy).
• Partner with H&S, Legal, and local leaders to ensure regulatory requirements are met.

Manager Support & Coaching

• Act as a trusted advisor to local managers, providing guidance on team dynamics, wellbeing, workload planning, inclusion, and employee motivation.
• Support the development of manager capability to handle ER issues, resolve conflicts, and implement good people leadership practices.
• Reinforce Elekta’s values, leadership cornerstones, and expected behaviours.
• HR Process Delivery & Local Implementation
• Collaborate with People Partner Lead on local delivery of global HR processes: merit, PDP, talent review, engagement cycles, onboarding/offboarding, organisational changes.
• Provide market intel on to inform the benchmarking process and ensure pay equity
• Attend and prepare information for internal and external audits where required
• Support HR data integrity and strong execution of Workday transactions.
• Provide insights as requested on site-specific people trends and risks.

• Culture, Engagement & Wellbeing Initiatives

• Support People Partner Lead in delivering site level engagement activities, including pulse actions, wellbeing initiatives, local DEI conversations, and values-based programmes.
• Support managers with wellbeing interventions, absence strategies, return‑to‑work plans, and early risk identification.
• Support local initiatives that reinforce Elekta’s desired culture and employee experience.
• Change & Organisational Support
• Support organisational design discussions by providing local insight into structure, capability, and people impacts.
• Help leaders manage change through communication planning, stakeholder engagement, and ensuring smooth transition of people processes.
• Coordinate site-level changes such as restructures, onboarding of new teams, or integration of new processes.
• Collaboration with Global HR Teams
• Work closely with People Services, Talent Acquisition, Reward, HRIS and other CoEs to deliver coherent HR services.
• Ensure local insight is factored into global HR decision-making.
• Escalate systemic issues to the Head of HR or People Partner Lead.