About the role

  • Manage Employee Relations cases, including absence, performance, disciplinary, grievance, and investigations, supported by the People Advisor.
  • Coordinate cyclical people activities, including workforce planning, performance and reward cycles, and engagement, in partnership with Talent Acquisition ( TA) and Learning & Development (L&D)
  • Maintain oversight of policies, procedures, and processes, ensuring legal compliance, market best practice, and alignment with organisational culture.
  • Support People Operations in embedding robust frameworks and processes to drive consistency, compliance, and fairness.
  • Use people data to inform priorities, measure impact, and demonstrate value of People initiatives.
  • Lead organisational design reviews, functional alignment, and role evaluations.
  • Partner with the TA team to drive advocacy for our employer brand and talent opportunities.
  • Support embedding organisational values, ensuring clarity of expectations and a fair, consistent culture.
  • Partner with Internal Communications to review engagement insights, facilitate follow-up sessions, and support leaders in creating and delivering engagement action plans.
  • Ensure all people practices are viewed through a DEI lens to maintain a positive and inclusive culture.
  • Partner with (L&D) to understand development needs, build line manager capability, and identify and retain high-potential talent.
  • Support the design and facilitation of targeted capability-building training programs.
  • Contribute to building and maintaining a strong succession pipeline for critical roles.
  • Drive a high-performance culture through effective feedback, talent development, and robust management of underperformance and behaviour misalignment with values.
  • Support the Rewards Partner and business leaders to ensure fair and competitive pay decisions that support equity, talent attraction and retention, and reward the right behaviours.
  • Champion and embed a culture of ongoing recognition that drives engagement, supports retention and aligns with organisational values

Requirements

  • Experience operating as a strategic Business Partner in a fast pace paced, scaling environment
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to balance support and challenge
  • Excellent communication, problem- solving and decision making capability
  • Proven Employee Relations case management experience with solid knowledge of current employment legislation
  • Experience supporting with with Organisational design and change management initiatives
  • Commercial mindset with a strong focus on delivery and results
  • Understanding of learning, development and talent management approaches
  • Ability to use people data to generate insights and demonstrate value/ROI.

Benefits

  • Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
  • 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
  • Up to 8% pension contribution
  • Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
  • Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
  • Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
  • Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
  • Three paid volunteering days a year
  • Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
  • Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
  • Employee resource groups

Job title

People Business Partner

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

£63,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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