People Business Partner

This is an exciting and fantastic opportunity for a driven and commercially minded HR professional to make a real impact. As a key player in shaping the future of our organisation, you'll be at the forefront of driving meaningful change and enabling business success through people.

The People Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, delivering the people agenda that supports business growth and operational efficiency. The role requires a commercially focused HR professional to support the delivery of the People Strategy in a fast-paced, operational environment. This role is critical to aligning people priorities with business objectives, with a strong emphasis on talent development, recruitment, and organisational design.

The Role

The People Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, delivering the people agenda that support business growth and operational efficiency. The role requires a commercially focused HR professional to support the delivery of the People Strategy in a fast-paced, operational environment. This role is critical to aligning people priorities with business objectives, with a strong emphasis on talent development, recruitment and organisational design.

 Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to design and implement our People Strategy to enhance business performance.
• Drive the talent agenda to deliver tangible outputs by way of retention, promotion and  ensure succession is well thought out and planned ahead.
• Use people data and insight to influence decision-making and drive measurable outcomes and benefits to the business.
• Lead complex change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and alignment with business goals
• Where applicable, leads the relationship between the business area and Trade Unions, planning and managing regular interactions with Trade Unions.
• Develop and implement initiatives that enhance the overall employee experience, ensuring a high-performing, engaged, and motivated workforce

Candidate Profile

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant commercial experience in a decision-making role
• Employee engagement, culture and well-being
• Performance and succession management
• Delivered pieces of work across the People agenda
• Managing business change including redundancy and TUPE projects
• Collective grievance and working with Trade Union Officers
• Proactively promoted an inclusive environment
• Centres on Employee Experience, engagement and company culture

Skills and Approach

• Proactively identifies business risk and opportunity
• Strong level of emotional intelligence with the ability to manage situations sensitively and professionally
• Exceptional influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills at senior leadership levels (including Executives)
• Strong analytical mindset, with experience using People data and metrics to drive decision-making
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand financial performance and translate business objectives into effective People strategies
• Coaching and development abilities at senior level

General

• Able to travel without restriction and work some unsociable hours, with occasional nights away from home