Senior People Partner

About Our Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior People Partner to work alongside senior business leaders, shaping and delivering the people agenda to support business performance and long-term organisational capability.

This is a genuinely strategic partnering role, with broad responsibility across organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, talent, succession, workforce planning, engagement and change.

You’ll combine a strong understanding of the business with people insight and expertise to identify priorities, challenge thinking and develop practical solutions that deliver measurable outcomes.

Working as part of our wider People team, you’ll also manage a People Advisor while partnering closely with colleagues across People Capability, Resourcing and People Services.

What You Will Be Doing

You’ll act as a trusted partner and coach to senior leaders, helping them build high-performing teams, strengthen leadership capability and translate business priorities into effective people and workforce plans.

You’ll lead organisational design and effectiveness activity, ensuring structures, capabilities and ways of working support both current performance and future business requirements.

You’ll also provide people leadership through business transformation and change, constructively challenging leaders and helping embed sustainable improvements.Talent will be a significant part of your role. 

You’ll work with leaders to identify, develop and retain talent, strengthen succession pipelines and create opportunities for career development and internal mobility.

You’ll help embed meaningful performance conversations and ensure leaders are equipped to get the best from their people.

You’ll use workforce and business data to identify emerging risks and opportunities, developing strategic workforce plans and measuring their impact. Alongside this, you’ll help shape engagement and culture plans, supporting the development of an inclusive, accountable and high-performing organisation.

About You

You’re an experiencedSenior People Partner or HR professional with a strong commercial mindset and significant experience partnering senior leaders within a large, complex organisation.

You’ll bring strong capability across organisational design, talent and succession, workforce planning and organisational change, alongside the confidence to coach, influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.

You’re comfortable using data and insight to inform decisions and can connect people priorities directly to business performance.CIPD qualified or equivalent, you’ll combine strategic thinking with a pragmatic, hands-on approach.

You’re curious, collaborative and accountable, with the judgement to prioritise what matters and the confidence to challenge established thinking when there is a better way forward.

A full UK driving licence is required, with regular UK travel and occasional overnight stays.