HR Business Partner - Quilter

Quilter; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading wealth management firm in Southampton is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support strategic alignment of people strategies with business objectives. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong stakeholder management, a solid understanding of employment law, and a proven capacity for driving organizational performance in a dynamic environment. This role offers a hybrid work model and competitive benefits including a pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Benefits

26 days holiday

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance: 4x salary

Income Protection: 75% of salary

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Generalist ideally in financial services or regulated environment.
• Evidence of strong stakeholder management is essential.
• Sound understanding of employment law and regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, providing expert guidance on talent and performance.
• Champion a culture of excellence, integrity, and inclusion.
• Drive a high-performance culture through coaching and structured review processes.

Skills

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

High levels of discretion

Commercial acumen

Adaptability and resilience

Education

CIPD Level 5 or above (or equivalent qualification)

Job description

About the Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation.

Quilter oversees £126.3 billion in customer investments (as of August 2025). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments : Affluent and High Net Worth.

Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business.

High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it's the perfect time to join us!

About the Role

Level : 4

Location : Southampton (Hybrid - 2 to 3 days in office)

Department : HR

Contract : Permanent

As an HR Business Partner at Quilter, you will play a strategic and consultive role, partnering with senior leaders to support the alignment and delivery of the people strategy with business objectives. This is a dynamic and influential position that blends strategic insight with hands‑on partnership, enabling you to drive meaningful change and support our colleagues in achieving their full potential.

You’ll work closely with senior leaders and stakeholders to understand business priorities and translate them into people‑focused solutions. Whether it’s workforce planning, talent development, organisational design, or change management, you’ll be at the heart of decision‑making, offering expert guidance and challenge where needed.

The HRBP is instrumental in driving organisational performance, fostering a high‑performance culture and ensuring regulatory compliance across all HR practices.

Your responsibilities will include

• Strategic People Partnering : Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, providing expert guidance on talent, performance, and organisational effectiveness.
• Culture & Engagement : Champion a culture of excellence, integrity, and inclusion, ensuring alignment with our values and client promise.
• Talent & Succession Planning : Identify and develop key talent pipelines, with a focus on leadership capability and retention of critical roles.
• Performance Enablement : Drive a high‑performance culture through coaching, feedback, and structured review processes.
• Reward & Recognition : Support year‑end compensation planning, ensuring alignment with performance and market benchmarks.
• Organisational Effectiveness : Lead people aspects of change programmes, ensuring smooth transitions and adoption of new ways of working. Drive organisational design, change management and optimisation initiatives. Act as a change agent to facilitate smooth transitions and mitigate resistance.
• Data‑Driven Insight : Use people analytics to inform decisions, track progress, and identify opportunities for improvement. Leveraging workday capability, provide regular reporting and insights to business leaders. Promote a data mindset within the business to drive evidence‑based decisions.
• Inclusion & Wellbeing : Partner with our I&D team to embed inclusive practices and promote wellbeing across high‑pressure environments. Champion diversity, equity and inclusion across the business.
• Reward & Performance : Support compensation planning and advise on reward strategies aligned with compliance and market benchmarks.
• Governance & Risk : Ensure HR practices meet regulatory standards and contribute to internal governance forums.
• Stakeholder Influence : Collaborate across HR, Finance, Compliance, and Transformation to deliver joined‑up solutions.

About You

• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Generalist ideally in financial services or regulated environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels. Evidence of strong stakeholder management is essential.
• Sound understanding of employment law and regulatory frameworks.
• Analytical mindset with confidence in interpreting HR data and metrics.
• High levels of discretion and ethical judgement, particularly in sensitive or complex scenarios.
• Commercial acumen.
• Adaptability and resilience in a fast‑paced, evolving business.
• Experience supporting change initiatives and organisational transformation.
• CIPD Level 5 or above (or equivalent qualification) preferred.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

Do the right thing : We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.

Always curious : We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients' needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.

Embrace challenge : We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.

Stronger together : Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

• Holiday : 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme : All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme : A non‑contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance : Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance : 4x your salary.
• Income Protection : 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan : Jersey employees only
• In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.