Senior People Partner

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

Job Title: Senior People Partner

Location: Warwick (3 days per week on-site - mandatory)

Contract Type: 3 months

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior People Partner to provide strategic and operational HR support to a designated business area. This role will partner closely with senior leaders to translate business objectives into people priorities, delivering expert advice across the full employee lifecycle.

As a trusted advisor, you will help shape and deliver the people strategy, support organisational change, drive talent initiatives, improve employee engagement, and provide pragmatic, risk-based guidance on complex people matters. You'll work collaboratively with specialist HR teams to ensure the business receives high-quality, commercially focused people solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to develop and implement strategic workforce plans aligned to business objectives.
• Build and deliver a people plan that supports organisational priorities, driving measurable improvements in performance, engagement and capability.
• Provide expert, commercially focused HR advice across a broad range of employee relations and people matters.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, influencing business decisions and providing strategic people insight.
• Lead and support organisational change initiatives, ensuring effective planning, communication and implementation.
• Drive talent management, succession planning and workforce development initiatives.
• Partner with HR Centres of Excellence to deliver specialist people solutions across areas including talent, reward, learning and organisational development.
• Analyse workforce data, trends and people metrics to identify risks, opportunities and recommendations.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, HR policies and internal governance, minimising organisational risk.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with employee representatives and support the management of employee relations issues.
• Lead people-focused projects and continuous improvement initiatives across the business.
• Identify, manage and mitigate people-related risks.
• Where applicable, provide leadership and development support to junior HR team members.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner or People Partner within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge across the full employee lifecycle, including workforce planning, talent management, recruitment, employee relations and organisational change.
• Demonstrated ability to provide pragmatic, commercially focused and risk-based HR advice.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience influencing and coaching leaders at all levels.
• Experience leading HR projects from planning through to successful delivery.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret workforce data and translate insights into practical recommendations.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on operational delivery.
• Experience working in highly confidential environments and managing sensitive information.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook).
• CIPD qualified or working towards CIPD qualification is desirable.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is desirable.

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