People Advice Manager providing expert HR guidance on complex ER cases at Biffa. Leading a team in delivering a proactive advisory service while mentoring others in the organization.
About the role
- Senior People Partner enhancing organisational performance through HR strategies and data insights. Collaborating with senior leadership to drive engagement, talent development, and culture.
Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted partner to senior managers and leaders, supporting them on all people-related matters to drive performance and business outcomes.
- Collaborate closely with the Director of People to co-design and roll out People strategies across key areas including talent development, engagement, culture, and change.
- Use data and insight to spot patterns, guide decision-making, and support managers with workforce planning, organisational design, and succession.
- Take ownership of embedding company-wide initiatives (e.g. performance processes, compensation cycles, hybrid working models), ensuring they land well with managers and their teams.
- Provide sound, pragmatic advice and coaching on employee relations matters, balancing risk and business need with empathy and fairness.
- Mentor and support the development of other People Partners, helping uplift capability and consistency across the wider team.
- Play a key role in advancing our culture and ways of working, grounded in our leadership behaviours and values.
- Partnering with managers and leaders to understand business challenges, diagnose people needs, and develop tailored solutions.
- Supporting workforce and organisational planning, including team structures, spans and layers, and succession planning.
- Proactively identifying recruitment needs, partnering with Talent Acquisition on role scoping, candidate selection, offers and onboarding.
- Facilitating personal development and growth through meaningful feedback, development conversations, and learning pathways.
- Leading or advising on performance and conduct issues, ensuring fair process and manager confidence.
- Helping managers navigate and apply our reward and compensation philosophy, especially during annual cycles or off-cycle promotions.
- Analysing and translating people data into insight; supporting leaders to make informed decisions that drive business outcomes.
- Contributing to scaling our culture and processes as we grow internationally – with an eye on relevance, inclusion, and local nuance.
- Acting as a critical voice on inclusion, wellbeing and psychological safety across the business.
Requirements
- You have significant experience in a strategic HR Business Partner or People Partner role, ideally in a scaling tech or international environment.
- You are business-savvy and commercially aware: you know how organisations function, how to assess people needs, and how to get things done through others.
- You’re credible with senior leaders, an excellent coach, and not afraid to challenge where needed, always with respect and empathy.
- You’re outcome-focused, always looking for opportunities to simplify, improve or scale a process to meet business needs.
- You have strong knowledge of UK employment law with exposure to international employment contexts an advantage.
- You’re tech-fluent, confident using data and tools (like HRIS, survey platforms, spreadsheets) to craft robust insights and cases for change.
- You’re energised by change, resilient and flexible; you operate well in ambiguity and enjoy solving complex people challenges.
- You're someone who gives great feedback — and invites it in return — because you care about your impact and growth.
Benefits
- Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to 90 days per year
- £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
- $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
- Holidays: 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
- An extra day for your birthday
- Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
- Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
- Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
- Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
- £100 Crypto for you!
- Cycle to Work Scheme
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