People Partnering Enablement Lead

QBE Insurance Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Flexible working

Pension 10%

Private medical insurance

Family leave policies

Remote work abroad

Sustainable investing

Cycle-to-Work

Job summary

QBE Insurance Group in the United Kingdom is seeking a People Partnering Enablement Lead for a 12-month FTC in London or Leeds with hybrid working. You will connect across the People Partnering community, align priorities, and drive governance, capability, and AI adoption to create value across the business.

This role requires experience in complex organisations, strong stakeholder management, and a track record of leading cross-functional programmes.

Qualifications

• Experience in a People partnering or operations role within a complex organisation.
• Ability to align priorities, governance, planning and delivery across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional programmes and change initiatives.
• Demonstrated success adopting AI and data-driven ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate activity across People Business Partners, People Country Managers and Employee Relations teams, ensuring effort is aligned to business priorities and strategic outcomes.
• Establish and maintain governance, planning processes, operating rhythms and ways of working across the Partnering function.
• Monitor workload, capacity and demand across the Partnering community, identifying opportunities to improve deployment, focus and effectiveness.
• Own and coordinate key talent, workforce and annual people processes, ensuring consistent execution and alignment across the People function.
• Track delivery of strategic Partnering priorities, functional commitments and key programmes, providing visibility of progress, risks and dependencies.
• Lead the adoption of AI-enabled and technology-driven ways of working, driving innovation, simplification and continuous improvement across the Partnering team.
• Identify and implement opportunities to standardise processes, improve service quality, reduce duplication and enhance operational efficiency.
• Act as the key connector between Partnering teams and Centres of Excellence, strengthening collaboration and ensuring joined-up delivery of People priorities.
• Develop executive-ready communications, insights and presentations, translating complex workforce and organisational information into clear, impactful messages.
• Build capability, consistency and community across the global Partnering function through common standards, best practice sharing and continuous development initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

People operations

Change management

Data analysis

Communication

Governance

AI adoption

Cross-functional leadership

Project coordination

Job description

Primary Details

Time Type: Full timeWorker Type: Employee

People Partnering Enablement Lead

Role Highlights

• 12 Month FTC - London or Leeds based role with hybrid working
• Be the connector across our People Partnering community, bringing together priorities, people and processes to maximise business impact.
• Happy to talk flexible working

The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced and influential People professional to join our team as Partnering Lead. The Partnering Lead is responsible for enabling a high-performing, integrated and future-ready Partnering function across People Business Partners, People Country Managers and Employee Relations working closely with the Centres of Excellence.

The role acts as the central connecting mechanism across the People Partnering team, ensuring priorities are aligned, activity is coordinated, and resources are focused on the areas that create the greatest business value. The role drives operational effectiveness, governance, capability, AI adoption and continuous improvement across the Partnering community, enabling PBPs and PCMs to devote more time to strategic workforce, organisation, talent and leadership priorities.

Please note: The right to work in the UK is required for this role. QBE may consider visa sponsorship at its discretion.

About QBE

At QBE, we get to the heart of what matters for our customers — and we do it with a human touch.
We’re an international insurer with over 13,000 people across 26 countries, which means we’re big enough for your ambitions, yet small enough for you to make a meaningful impact.

It’s an exciting time to join us as we continue building momentum towards our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

What if you could have a positive impact — at work and in the world?
As part of the QBE team, you’ll work every day with people who are passionate, talented and kind.

Your New Role

• Coordinate and prioritise activity across People Business Partners, People Country Managers and Employee Relations teams, ensuring effort is aligned to business priorities and strategic outcomes.
• Establish and maintain effective governance, planning processes, operating rhythms and ways of working across the Partnering function.
• Monitor workload, capacity and demand across the Partnering community, identifying opportunities to improve deployment, focus and effectiveness.
• Own and coordinate key talent, workforce and annual people processes, ensuring consistent execution and alignment across the People function.
• Track delivery of strategic Partnering priorities, functional commitments and key programmes, providing visibility of progress, risks and dependencies.
• Lead the adoption of AI-enabled and technology-driven ways of working, driving innovation, simplification and continuous improvement across the Partnering team.
• Identify and implement opportunities to standardise processes, improve service quality, reduce duplication and enhance operational efficiency.
• Act as the key connector between Partnering teams and Centres of Excellence, strengthening collaboration and ensuring joined-up delivery of People priorities.
• Develop executive-ready communications, insights and presentations, translating complex workforce and organisational information into clear, impactful messages.
• Build capability, consistency and community across the global Partnering function through common standards, best practice sharing and continuous development initiatives.

About You

• Experience in a People partnering, People operations, programme leadership or functional enablement role within a complex, matrixed and ideally international organisation.
• Strong understanding of People operating models, with the ability to align business priorities, governance, planning and delivery across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional programmes, annual people cycles and strategic initiatives, while managing competing priorities, capacity and resources effectively.
• Demonstrated success driving process improvement, simplification, standardisation and technology-enabled change, including the practical adoption of AI and data-driven ways of working.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, using data and insight to identify trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Exceptional communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build connections, create executive-ready outputs and drive continuous improvement across teams and geographies.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances.As well as the benefits below we also offer an extensive choice of other options to suit you!

• 30 days holiday a yearwith theoptionto buy up to 2additionaldays.

• Flexible working-balancing work and life is important so our flexible working opportunities are open to all, this can include part-time, job share and compressed hours.

• Pension –you are automatically enrolled into the QBE pension plan, which entitles you to receive employer contributions of 10% of your basic salary.

• Private medical insurance– we fund fully comprehensive private medical cover for you and all the family.

• Family friendly policies– we offer 26 weeks leave at full pay regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation or how you become a parent.

• Short term remote work abroad-you can request up to 20 days per year to work remotely from certain locations abroad.

• Sustainable investing- we believe sustainable integration is important for long term financial, environmental, and social outcomes. Our pension strategy supports our net-zero goal to achieve year-on-year reductions incarbonfootprint, by investing more ingreen businesses than the broader market, so your savings are looking after the planet's future, as well as your own.

• Cycle-to-Work– benefit from regular exercise whilst making your commute greener and cheaper, select and bike and/or accessories up to the value of £5,000.

Awards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2025:Winner: Commercial Lines Insurer of the Year,Winner: Reinsurer of the Year - QBE Re, Winner: ESG, Diversity,Equityand Inclusion Initiative of the Year

• Insurance Post British Insurance Awards 2023:QBE rated as a 5-Star Employee

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.

Skills:

Business Management, Client Counseling, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Office Management, Operational Efficiency, Prioritization, Research Analysis, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Management, Strategic Planning, Waterfall Model