HR Business Partner

Baringa; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Hybrid working policy

Profit share scheme

Wellbeing fund

CSR days

Job summary

Baringa is recruiting an experienced HR Business Partner to join the Global People function. You will act as principal HRBP for one or more sectors within our Consulting business, supporting the full breadth of their people agenda from workforce planning to leadership development and employee relations.

You will work with Partners, Sector Leads and People Sponsor Partners to deliver sector strategies, drive change, and enable efficient processes.

Qualifications

• Significant HR Business Partner experience, ideally in professional services/consulting.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders to deliver business and people outcomes.
• Deep employee relations expertise and risk-based advice.

Responsibilities

• Be the principal HRBP for one or more sectors within Consulting.
• Develop sector-specific People Plans and drive progress with Rewards, Recruitment and L&D.
• Build relationships with Partner Leads and Sector Lead to shape sector strategy.
• Use people insights to identify risks, opportunities and priorities.
• Support organisational change and transformation within client groups.
• Lead an HR Advisor and collaborate across UK and international colleagues.

Skills

Senior HRBP experience

Partnering with senior leaders

Employee relations

Change management

Workforce planning

Stakeholder management

Data and insights

Autonomy & commercial awareness

Job description

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Global People function are looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join them.

We have a team of dedicated and talented professionals, taking responsibility for all “people” aspects of the business. This includes the whole employee life cycle, from attracting new joiners, on-boarding, development throughout their career, ensuring they work in a balanced and healthy way, supporting them when needed, enabling efficient and effective processes throughout, every day, for their entire journey at Baringa.

As we continue to grow organically, we need to ensure our people offerings are set up to enable the future size and shape of the business to operate effectively and efficiently, using the appropriate tools. Supporting the ever-evolving business needs and being a key player in the change management of the firm, is a core part of this role.

What you will be doing

• Be the principal HRBP for one or more sectors within our Consulting business, looking after the full breadth of their people agenda.
• HRBP roles at Baringa are very broad, so there will be plenty of scope to operate across a range of people activities, including workforce planning, talent and succession, leadership capability, performance and development, employee relations, employee engagement, reward, promotions and people insights.
• Develop and own sector-specific People Plans for your client groups and be accountable for ensuring progress against these, including engaging with other parts of the People function, such as Reward, Recruitment and L&D, to deliver outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships and provide support and advice to Partner Leads in helping them deliver the people elements of their business plans. You will work closely with your People Sponsor Partner and Sector Lead as key stakeholders to help shape and enable the people elements of sector strategy.
• Use people insights, data and feedback to identify risks, opportunities and emerging priorities, helping to inform decision-making and people interventions across your sector(s).
• Support organisational change and transformation activity within your client group(s), helping leaders navigate change and manage people impacts effectively.
• Support leaders and people managers on a range of people matters, including organisational effectiveness, talent, engagement, performance and development, helping to ensure teams are set up for success.
• You will be managing an HR Advisor who provides support across multiple sectors.
• You are likely to support some colleagues outside the UK, and you will need to be able to flex your approach to accommodate different cultures and jurisdictional requirements.

This role reports directly into the Head of the Global HRBP team, and interfaces with Partners and senior leaders across the business. You will live and breathe our values and be a great role-model for our culture and behaviours.

Your skills and experience

• Significant HR Business Partner experience, ideally gained within a professional services, consulting or partnership environment, with a track record of partnering with senior leaders to deliver business and people outcomes.
• Experience operating across complex client groups or sectors, with an understanding of the opportunities and challenges associated with supporting diverse and evolving business needs.
• Deep employee relations expertise, including managing complex and sensitive cases independently and providing pragmatic, risk-based advice that balances legal, commercial and people considerations.
• Strong knowledge of local employment legislation and market practice, with the ability to anticipate and respond to legislative changes, shaping people approaches and influencing stakeholders accordingly.
• Demonstrated ability to build credibility with Partners and senior leaders, providing strategic counsel, challenge and coaching to support effective decision-making and leadership capability.
• Strong organisational effectiveness and workforce planning capability, with experience translating business priorities into people strategies and interventions that drive performance, engagement and growth.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to navigate complexity, challenge constructively and build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Operates with a high degree of autonomy, sound judgement and commercial awareness, balancing local business needs with the long-term interests and values of Baringa.
• Strong project and change management skills, with the ability to lead multiple strategic people initiatives simultaneously and deliver measurable outcomes.

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.