Principal Global HR Business Partner

Envision Pharma Group; Horsham; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Envision Pharma Group is seeking a highly experienced Principal Global HR Business Partner to join our Global HRBP team in the United Kingdom. This senior individual-contributor role partners with the Director, Global HRBP, translating priorities into clear, coordinated plans and delivering high-quality HRBP execution across a global footprint.

You will drive workforce planning, organization design, succession and leader coaching, while coaching other HRBPs to ensure consistent, data-led

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years progressive HR experience including senior HRBP
• Experience leading complex transformation and workforce planning
• Escalation-level expert with senior stakeholder management
• Global HRBP exposure is a plus

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise priorities into coordinated HRBP plans and lead complex transformation
• Act as escalation point for cross-border employee-relations matters with Legal on risk-aware recommendations
• Partner with senior leaders to implement enterprise people priorities
• Analyze people data to surface trends and opportunities for leaders
• Define HRBP boundaries and optimize routine work to focus on strategic priorities
• Lead execution of enterprise people and talent programs across client groups

Skills

Senior HRBP

Change management

Stakeholder mgmt

Global HRBP

Job description

Principal HRBP, Global

Work shouldn't just be something we do; it should have a purpose. At Envision, we believe in creating life-changing outcomes through the work we do with our clients, giving back to our communities, while creating a company culture where our people thrive. We believe success starts with a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to grow.

Being part of a collaborative team means there's no limit to what you can achieve. With us, you can be a part of a growing company you want to work for.

Our Vision: To unleash the power of combined intelligence to accelerate patient access to life-changing treatments.

Our Mission: Delivering smarter and faster solutions to create, communicate, and commercialize value for our clients.

Our Values: Excellence, People, Growth

The opportunity

We are seeking a highly experienced, commercially minded Principal Global HR Business Partner to join our Global HRBP team at a pivotal stage in Envision Pharma Group's growth and transformation journey. This is a senior individual-contributor role and a close strategic partner to the Director, Global HRBP.

The Principal HRBP helps translate the enterprise HRBP and Talent Management operating model into consistent, high-quality execution, bringing deep HR expertise, business acumen and data-led insight to complex business priorities.

Reporting to the Director, Global HR Business Partnering, the Principal HRBP acts as the Director's right hand across the HRBP remit, converting enterprise priorities into clear plans, coordinated delivery and sustainable capability across the team. The Director retains enterprise accountability for the HRBP and Talent Management agenda; the Principal provides senior operational leadership, escalation support and continuity, while enabling HRBPs to execute talent priorities across the employee lifecycle.

Working across HRBP, Talent Management, HR Centers of Expertise and People Services, the Principal keeps delivery joined up, supports appropriate triage of routine work and builds team depth in workforce planning, organization design, succession and leader coaching.

How will you make an impact at Envision Pharma Group?

Role responsibilities

• Support the Director in translating enterprise priorities into coordinated HRBP plans, then lead complex transformation, organization design and strategic workforce planning through implementation.
• Act as the escalation point for the most complex, sensitive or cross-border employee relations matters, aligning the Director, People Services and Legal on risk-aware recommendations.
• Partner with senior leaders to translate agreed enterprise people priorities into practical business plans, providing constructive challenge within the direction set by the Director, Global HRBP.
• Integrate people data and commercial insight to surface trends, risks and opportunities and provide evidence-based recommendations to the Director and business leaders.
• Embed clear HRBP role boundaries and ways of working, including triaging routine and transactional activity to People Services to enable the HRBP function to focus on strategic priorities, including workforce planning, organization design, succession and leader coaching.
• Lead coordinated execution of enterprise people and talent programs across assigned client groups, ensuring HRBPs deliver performance, compensation, talent review, succession, engagement and development activity consistently within the frameworks established by the Director and Talent Management.
• Coach and upskill Senior HRBPs and other HR colleagues, building cross-trained capability, consistency and resilient UK and US coverage.
• Champion Envision's values of Excellence, People and Growth, role-modelling the judgement, partnership and accountability expected of a Principal HRBP.

Do you have what we are looking for?

Skills & expertise

• 8-10+ years of progressive HR experience, including substantial experience operating as a senior HR Business Partner and leading complex change end-to-end.
• Proven success translating enterprise people and talent priorities into coordinated execution while leading complex transformation, organization design and workforce planning initiatives.
• Recognized as an escalation-level expert and trusted right hand to a senior HRBP leader, able to coordinate delivery, provide continuity and guide experienced HR colleagues through ambiguity.
• Exceptional senior stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the credibility to challenge constructively while remaining aligned to enterprise direction.
• Demonstrated success raising the capability of Senior HRBPs and building shared standards across a global HRBP community.
• Comfortable leading through ambiguity and change, with the resilience and enterprise mindset to strengthen integrated HRBP and Talent Management delivery across a global footprint.

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