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Job Description
About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join our HR team on a 12-month fixed-term contract to provide maternity cover. This is a fantastic opportunity for a commercially focused HR professional to partner with senior leaders, influencing business outcomes through effective people strategies and solutions.
As a trusted adviser, you will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to align people priorities with business objectives, support organisational transformation, enhance leadership capability, and drive a positive employee experience. This role offers a broad remit spanning strategic business partnering, organisational change, talent management, employee relations, workforce planning, and culture initiatives.
Key Responsibilities: Strategic Business Partnering
- Partner with senior leaders across designated business areas, providing strategic people advice, insight, and constructive challenge.
- Translate business objectives into effective people plans that support organisational performance and employee engagement.
- Build trusted relationships with key stakeholders and act as a credible adviser on both strategic and operational people matters.
- Coach and support leaders to strengthen management capability, confidence, and decision-making.
Organisational Change & Effectiveness
- Support business transformation, organisational change, and integration activity, ensuring people considerations are embedded within key decisions.
- Lead workforce planning, organisational design, and restructuring initiatives.
- Identify current and future capability requirements and develop solutions to address business needs.
- Collaborate with specialist teams to deliver organisation-wide change and people programmes.
Talent, Performance & Succession
- Lead talent and succession planning activities across assigned business areas.
- Identify critical roles, capability gaps, succession risks, and development opportunities.
- Support leaders in building diverse talent pipelines and high-performing teams.
- Drive effective performance management practices and support key people processes, including performance reviews, talent reviews, and compensation cycles.
Culture & Employee Engagement
- Champion organisational culture, values, and behaviours across the business.
- Use employee feedback and people insights to drive engagement, inclusion, and organisational effectiveness.
- Support leaders in creating an environment that promotes collaboration, high performance, and a positive employee experience.
People Analytics & Workforce Planning
- Analyse workforce metrics and people data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Provide evidence-based recommendations to support business and workforce decisions.
- Monitor key people indicators and proactively address emerging workforce and capability concerns.
Employee Relations & Risk Management
- Lead complex employee relations matters in partnership with the Head of Employee Relations.
- Advise managers on disciplinary issues, grievances, absence management, restructures, dismissals, performance concerns, conflict resolution, and PHI cases.
- Ensure people decisions are fair, consistent, commercially balanced, and aligned with employment law and company policies.
- Identify and escalate significant people risks where appropriate.
HR Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with HR colleagues and specialist teams to deliver coordinated and effective people solutions.
- Ensure HR policies, processes, and annual cycles are implemented effectively across assigned business areas.
- Share insight, expertise, and best practice across the wider HR function.
- Build strong internal relationships to ensure business needs are supported through the most appropriate HR expertise.
About You:
You will be an experienced and credible HR professional who combines strong commercial awareness with excellent stakeholder management skills. You will be comfortable operating in a changing environment, influencing senior leaders, and balancing business objectives with people priorities.
Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner, Senior HR Adviser, or in a similar partnering role.
- Experience influencing and advising senior leaders on complex people matters.
- Strong track record of supporting organisational change, transformation, and restructuring programmes.
- Experience in workforce planning, organisational design, talent management, and succession planning.
- Significant employee relations experience, including handling sensitive and complex cases.
- Strong coaching, influencing, and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent analytical capability with experience using people data and insights to inform decision-making.
- Sound knowledge of UK employment law and modern HR practices.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to translate business objectives into practical people solutions.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to balance competing priorities and operate effectively in a complex, evolving organisation.
Qualifications:
- CIPD qualified, part-qualified, or able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience.
- Experience within Financial Services, Professional Services, a regulated environment, or another complex organisation would be advantageous.
