Lead HR Business Partner

Watergate Bay Hotel; Newquay; Sur place; GBP 60 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive benefits package

Résumé du poste

Watergate Bay Hotel is seeking a Lead HR Business Partner to join our team, spanning multiple sites around Newquay. This senior role blends strategic HR leadership with hands-on execution to drive people performance, culture, and organisational effectiveness in a fast-paced hospitality setting.

You will partner with senior leaders to shape the people strategy across sites, guide HR best practices and employment law, and lead engagement and talent initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience in a senior HR role, ideally within hospitality, retail, or a multi-site environment.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to influence at senior leadership level.
• Solid knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience managing complex employee relations and organisational change.
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent qualification.

Responsabilités

• Partner with senior operational leaders to deliver the HR strategy.
• Drive our training agenda.
• Drive engagement, culture, and performance across a multi-site operation.
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations, risk management, and UK employment law.
• Support organisational change, restructures, and transformation programmes.
• Use data and insights to inform decision-making and improve business outcomes.
• Support workforce planning, talent development, and succession initiatives.

Connaissances

Senior HR leadership

Resilience & adaptability

Commercial acumen

Employee relations

Change management

Formation

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Description du poste

Lead HR Business Partner | The Hangar, St Mawgan (near Newquay) | Full-time, Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm

We’re looking for a commercially minded Lead HR Business Partner to join a committed and hard-working team. Are you someone who is energised by fast-paced environments, passionate about people, and ready to shape the future of hospitality?

We’re looking for a Lead HR Business Partner to join our team and play a pivotal role in leading and supporting our people strategy across multiple sites. This is a senior role partnering with operational leaders to drive people performance, culture, and organisational effectiveness.

You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders delivering the people agenda, whilst ensuring alignment with wider business objectives. This is a hands-on leadership role, combining strategy with execution in a dynamic, team-focused environment.

At The Hangar, no two days are the same. You'll be comfortable juggling competing priorities and have the agility to move quickly from one challenge to the next. Working across multiple hotel locations, you'll embrace the pace and variety of the role, bringing your HR expertise to the forefront and making a real difference on the ground.

Key responsibilities

• Partner with senior operational leaders to deliver the HR strategy
• Drive our training agenda
• Drive engagement, culture, and performance across a multi-site operation
• Provide expert guidance on employee relations, risk management, and UK employment law
• Support organisational change, restructures, and transformation programmes
• Use data and insights to inform decision-making and improve business outcomes
• Support workforce planning, talent development, and succession initiatives

About you

• Proven experience in a more senior HR role, ideally within hospitality, retail, or a multi-site environment
• Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence at senior leadership level
• Solid knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Experience managing complex employee relations and organisational change
• CIPD qualified (to L5 or equivalent experience)

Why join us?

• Have the opportunity to shape and influence the people strategy in a growing business
• Take on a high visibility role with senior stakeholder exposure
• Be part of our collaborative and people-focused culture
• Competitive benefits package