HR Business Partner

Your new role

We are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to support senior leadership teams within a fast-paced, commercial organisation. This is a true partnering role, combining strategic HR support with hands-on operational delivery across the full employee lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning, organisational design and people strategy.
• Act as a trusted advisor, providing pragmatic HR guidance on complex people matters and business challenges.
• Lead on a broad range of employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, absence management and settlement agreements.
• Support organisational change initiatives, including restructures, redundancy programmes and TUPE activity.
• Drive talent management, succession planning and performance management processes.
• Analyse workforce data and provide insights to support business decision-making.
• Lead employee engagement initiatives and support the delivery of action plans.
• Advise on reward, compensation and benchmarking activity.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, GDPR requirements and HR best practice.
• Coach and support managers to build capability and promote effective people management.

About You

• Proven HR Business Partner experience within a complex, fast-moving organisation.
• Strong employee relations expertise with confidence managing high-risk and complex casework.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience supporting organisational change and transformation projects.
• Commercially minded with the ability to use data and insights to influence decision-making.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders.
• CIPD qualified or equivalent experience preferred.

This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially focused HR professional who enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships whilst delivering practical and strategic people solutions.

What you'll need to succeed

• CIPD L7 (or equivalent)
• Proven HR Business Partner experience within a medium to large organisation.
• Strong Employee Relations experience, managing complex disciplinary, grievance, performance and absence cases.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing business decisions.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience leading organisational change, restructures, redundancy and/or TUPE projects.
• Workforce planning, talent management and succession planning experience.
• Ability to use people data and insights to drive commercial outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.

What you need to do now

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