People & Culture Business Partner

Movera; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday + birthday off

Health Cash Plan

Buy/Sell 5 days annual leave

Holiday leave after 1 year

Hybrid working

Free conveyancing legal fees

Moving home days off

Volunteering days

Retailer discounts & socials

Refer a friend bonuses

Job summary

Movera is seeking a strategic People Partner who collaborates with senior leadership across a large Operations environment to shape workforce decisions and drive continuous improvement. This role emphasizes influence over HR delivery, data-driven insights, and scalable people strategies.

You will work with leaders to design organisations, map capabilities, and elevate leadership performance, enabling sustainable growth and a high-performing culture.

Qualifications

• Proven strategic business partnering experience in fast-paced or complex environments.
• Experience supporting organisation design, team effectiveness and embedded change initiatives.
• Track record in strengthening leadership capability, talent mapping, and succession planning.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to enable strategic workforce decisions and align with business priorities.
• Collaborate on organisation design, role clarity, and capability mapping to build high-performing teams.
• Strengthen leadership effectiveness through coaching, feedback, and constructive challenge.
• Identify high-potential talent, map future capability needs, and support succession planning.
• Use workforce analytics to identify trends, mitigate risks, and drive engagement improvements.
• Lead change initiatives and implement joined-up People solutions with Learning, Talent and People Ops.

Skills

Strategic leadership partnering

Organisational design thinking

Leadership development

Talent mapping & succession

Data-led decision making

Employee engagement & experience

Change navigation

Cross-functional collaboration

Tech/AI in HR

Job description

Are you a strategic People Partner who thrives on influence, challenge, continuous improvement, and commercial impact? We are looking for a pragmatic, outcomes-focused professional to partner with our senior leadership teams across a large and complex Operations environment, driving high performance, shaping workforce decisions, and delivering long-term organisational effectiveness.

Who Are We?

Movera is a flourishing platform business that brings together ambitious home moving brands from across the sector. Built on the heritage and passion of experienced legal services businesses including ONP Solicitors and Cavendish Legal Group, brought together to transform the moving market for the better. Our vision is to create moving and remortgaging experiences to be celebrated – not tolerated. As we continue to scale, our People & Culture team plays a critical enabling role - creating the conditions for sustainable growth through strong foundations, clear accountability, data-led decision-making, and the development of high-performing talent. Much of this impact happens behind the scenes, working in partnership with leaders to ensure the organisation is set up to succeed.

The Role

This is a true partnering role within the People Business Partnering & Operations function, designed for someone who thrives on influence and strategic impact rather than day-to-day HR delivery.

Working closely with senior leaders across our Operational functions, you will act as a trusted partner, providing the insight, constructive challenge, and organisational thinking needed to shape workforce decisions and drive continuous improvement.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Strategic Leadership Partnering: Enable senior leaders to make confident, commercially sound workforce decisions through strategic challenge, insight, and alignment with business priorities.

• Organisational & Team Effectiveness: Partner with leaders on organisation design, role clarity, and capability mapping to build high-performing teams.

• Leadership Capability: Strengthen leadership effectiveness through feedback, coaching, and constructive challenge, empowering leaders to build accountable and engaged teams.

• Talent, Succession & Career Pathways: Partner with leaders to identify high-potential talent, map future capability and succession needs, and mitigate succession risks while supporting career pathways that strengthen internal mobility and retention.

• Engagement & Colleague Experience: Use workforce and engagement analytics to identify trends, mitigate risks, and execute targeted action plans that deliver measurable improvements in colleague engagement, retention and experience.

• Change Navigation: Guide leaders through organisational change, managing risk, assessing impacts, and maintaining engagement and high performance throughout periods of change.

• Joined-up People Solutions: Partner seamlessly with Learning & Development, Talent, and People Operations to build joined-up solutions that support operational priorities and ensure a consistent colleague experience.

• Continuous Improvement & Tech Innovation: Champion simplified ways of working and leverage HR technology, automation, and AI to improve productivity, insight generation, and colleague experience.

• Cultural Embedding: Partner with leaders to bring Movera’s values and cultural ambitions to life into clear leadership behaviours, expectations, and operational ways of working.

What You'll Bring

• Pragmatic & Outcomes-Focused: A solutions-oriented mindset that prioritises meaningful business impact over rigid processes or box-ticking.

• Commercial Acumen & Data-Led: Strong commercial intuition with a commitment to using workforce metrics and data to challenge assumptions and inform strategy.

• Constructive Challenge & Influence: Confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively with a genuine curiosity for the "why" behind decisions.

• Organisational Design Thinking: Ability to evaluate organisational structures, role clarity, and ways of working to drive scalability and efficiency.

• Tech & Innovation Curiosity: Enthusiasm for technology, automation, and AI tools, and how they can be leveraged to streamline processes and elevate insight.

• Collaborative Mindset: A track record of building trusted relationships across the business and wider People functions to deliver shared outcomes.

• Navigating Ambiguity: Comfort operating at pace in complex, fast-changing, and operationally demanding environments.

Experience You'll Draw On

• Strategic Business Partnering: Proven experience operating as a People Business Partner within complex, fast-paced, or operationally demanding environments.

• Org Design & Change: Practical experience supporting organisation design, team effectiveness, and embedded change initiatives.

• Leadership & Talent Strategy: Track record in strengthening leadership capability, talent mapping, and succession planning.

• Data & HR Systems: Confidence leveraging HRIS, workforce analytics, and engagement insights to shape business decisions.

• CoE Partnership: Experience collaborating closely with L&D, Talent, and People Ops functions to deliver cohesive solutions.

• Bonus / Beneficial Experience: Exposure to HRIS/tech implementations, AI tools in HR, reward principles/cycles, or career pathway/talent architecture frameworks.

What We Offer

We aim to reward your hard work generously. You'll be greeted in our offices with great coffee, fruit and biscuits to keep you going, alongside all the benefits listed below, plus much more.

• 27 days holiday + your birthday off!

• Health Cash Plan

• Buy/Sell 5 days annual leave per annum

• Build up more annual leave after 1 years service

• Hybrid working

• Free conveyancing legal fees

• Moving home days off

• Volunteering days

• Retailer discounts and frequent socials

• Refer a friend bonuses

Look forward to Monday mornings at Movera, we have the culture, technology and purpose to change the way you feel about your job and strive to create a positive and supportive work environment.

At Movera, we celebrate diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to succeed.

We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including those from underrepresented groups. As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, anyone who identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role is offered an interview under our guaranteed interview scheme. This positive action gives disabled candidates the chance to demonstrate their skills, talent and abilities to us directly, rather than being screened out at the sift stage.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to discuss how we can support you.

DBS and Financial Checks

We are committed to creating a safe, secure, and trustworthy workplace for everyone. As part of this commitment, all employment offers are subject to successful completion of DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) checks and financial background checks. These checks help us maintain the highest standards of integrity and compliance while ensuring the well-being of our employees and clients. Rest assured, all checks will be carried out with care and in full accordance with relevant data protection laws.