People Business Partner

Aptia UK Limited; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Aptia UK Limited is seeking a commercially minded People Business Partner to support the UK business on employee relations and business change. Based in a hybrid working environment, you will partner with leaders to navigate complex cases, restructuring, and regulatory compliance while maintaining engagement.

The role is a 9-month fixed-term contract with potential extension. You should bring UK employment law expertise, strong stakeholder management and a track record coaching managers to raise

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting complex employee relations activity within a fast-paced, evolving organisation.
• Strong experience managing organisational change, restructures and collective consultation processes.
• Sound understanding of UK employment law and employee relations best practice.
• A track record of coaching and developing people managers to improve leadership capability and performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent) qualification preferred.
• Experience supporting regulated environments (desirable).

Responsibilities

• Support business transformation and change initiatives with engagement and risk mitigation.
• Manage employee relations cases, disciplinaries, grievances, investigations, performance and absence matters.
• Provide regulatory and governance support on people-related requirements.
• Coach managers to improve leadership effectiveness and engagement.
• Contribute to talent, succession and organisational development initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Employee relations

Change management

Analytical/problem solving

Education

CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent)

Job description

Job Requirements

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded People Business Partner who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. Working collaboratively as part of the People Business Partner team supporting the UK business, you will provide expert people advice and support on a broad range of employee relations and business change activities. This role is ideal for someone who combines strong employment law expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to deliver on organisational change. This is a fixed-term contract role initially for a period of 9‑months, with opportunity to extend. Aptia operates a hybrid‑working culture, and this role can align to any UK office. Preference is commutable distance of Glasgow City Centre.

Responsibilities

• Organisational Change:

  Support business transformation and change initiatives across the organisation. Partner with leaders to deliver organisational change programmes while maintaining employee engagement and mitigating risk. Develop communication and change management approaches that support positive business and colleague outcomes.

• Employee Relations & Case Management:

  Support the management of employee relations cases, including disciplinaries, grievances, investigations, performance management and absence matters, escalating any trends, insights or complex matters to the Senior People Partners. Provide pragmatic, risk‑balanced advice to managers and leaders on employment law, policy and people‑related issues. Ensure cases are managed effectively, consistently and in line with legal and regulatory requirements. Partner with legal counsel where required on complex and sensitive matters.

• Governance & Regulatory Support:

  Partner with business leaders and compliance teams to ensure people‑related regulatory requirements are effectively managed.

• Stakeholder Management:

  Coach and support people managers to improve leadership effectiveness and confidence. Design and deliver interventions focused on manager capability, performance management and employee engagement. Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, helping them navigate challenging conversations and complex people decisions.

• Strategic People Partnership:

  Contribute to talent, succession and organisational development initiatives. Support the development and implementation of people policies and best‑practice frameworks. Identify trends and themes within employee relations activity, providing insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting complex employee relations activity within a fast‑paced, evolving organisation.
• Strong experience managing organisational change, restructures and collective consultation processes.
• Sound understanding of UK employment law and employee relations best practice.
• A track record of coaching and developing people managers to improve leadership capability and performance.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem‑solving skills.
• CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent) qualification preferred.
• Experience supporting regulated environments (desirable).

EEO Statement

Aptia is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and equitable work environment. At Aptia, fostering an equitable and inclusive environment for all our people to flourish is a priority. We are an equal opportunity employer and aim to attract and retain the best people without attention to age, background, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, political affiliation, race, religion, gender and sexual orientation. If there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process to ensure it is accessible to you, we encourage you to reach out to us.