HR Business Partner

Phoenix Group; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK seeks an experienced HR Business Partner to join their Pensions & Savings People Team. The role involves leading organisation design, providing expert consultancy, and influencing stakeholders in line with the people strategy. Candidates should have proven HR experience, strong communication skills, and a commitment to creating an inclusive work environment. The position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits including private medical cover and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Career breaks

Qualifications

• Proven HR experience in business partnering and strategic delivery at senior management level.
• Ability to work strategically and tactically across the employee lifecycle.
• Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead organisation design and implementation to support management of change.
• Provide expert consultancy to enable successful delivery of Group Operations plans.
• Use data and metrics to identify improvement opportunities.

Skills

HR business partnering

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Commercial acumen

Change management

Job description

Overview

We have an incredible opportunity to join us at Phoenix Group as a HR Business Partner on our Pensions & Savings People Team. You will work as a strategic business partner enabling delivery of the people agenda to:

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Organisation Design and implementation, supporting the management of change through engagement activity, sharing intended benefits and outcomes, strong stakeholder management and effective communication.
• Provide expert consultancy, at a multi-disciplinary or deep specialist level, to support and enable successful delivery of Group Operations plans.
• Work alongside the centre of excellence teams to support and deliver the Talent, Learning, Reward, Culture, Diversity and Inclusion plans for the function.
• Use technical knowledge, skills and experience to influence stakeholders and leadership teams in line with the people strategy, governing policies, legislation and appropriate regulation.
• Use data, metrics and other information to develop insight to identify opportunities for improvement and develop proposals that bring about positive change, reinforcing and underpinning business objectives.
• Build and maintain relationships with managers up to and including executive level and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure advice and recommendations are relevant, informed, sustainable and commercially viable.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven HR experience of business partnering, organisation design or strategic delivery at senior management level in a financial services environment.
• Lateral thinker, capable of delivering innovative and pragmatic solutions at pace and through others where required.
• Commercial acumen and an understanding of the business, with the ability to work strategically and tactically across the whole employee lifecycle, always demonstrating added value.
• An autonomous and independent operator, with the ability to balance leading organisational design and delivery of large scale people impacts, alongside BAU activities and build business as well as HR knowledge, with desire to learn and grow in role.
• Excellent communication skills and proven experience of influencing, coaching and challenging leader behaviour to drive culture change and the achievement of business and people outcomes aligned to the business vision and priorities.

Commitment to Inclusion

We want to hire the whole version of you. We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome. Applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. If your experience looks different from what we've advertised and you believe you can bring value to the role, we'd love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

About Phoenix Group

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked. We are the UK's largest long‑term savings and retirement business, offering a range of products across our market‑leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We are a FTSE 100 organisation tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we're not done yet.

Flexible Working

All of our roles are open to part‑time, job‑share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balance this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Compensation & Benefits

£65,000 - £75,000 DOE plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12× salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3× volunteering days and much more.