Senior HR Business Partner

GEM Partnerships; City Of London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established professional services organization is seeking an experienced Senior HR Business Partner in London. This role focuses on aligning HR strategies with business objectives, supporting workforce planning, and driving a high-performance culture. The ideal candidate has a degree or equivalent and extensive experience in HR within similar environments. The position offers a competitive salary and flexibility with a 60/40 hybrid working model.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a HR Business Partner in professional services.
• Ability to translate business needs into people solutions.
• Natural relationship-builder with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic link between HR, Business Managers and leadership.
• Support stakeholders on HR matters like workforce planning.
• Drive and foster a high-performance culture.

Skills

HR strategy alignment

Stakeholder management

Organisational development

Change management

Talent planning

Commercial awareness

Education

Degree qualified or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Role: Senior HR Business Partner
Location: London (60/40 hybrid working after induction period)
Salary: Competitive Basic Salary plus comprehensive benefits and bonus

My client is a fast-growing, well-established, main market listed organisation, with a portfolio of market leading professional services supporting an international client base. Due to the ongoing evolution of their people function, they are now recruiting for an experienced HR Business Partner who will shape and deliver people strategies that drive business performance.

Reporting to the Head of HR, you\'ll work closely with business leaders to embed best practice, coach on people matters, and strengthen organisational capability across their professional services business portfolio, translating business strategy into proactive people initiatives across their multi-location footprint.

Key Responsibilities

• A stand-alone role, acting as a strategic link between HR, Business Managers and wider senior leadership, aligning human resources strategies with overall business objectives to drive commercial success.
• Supporting stakeholders on HR matters like workforce planning, org design, succession planning and talent development, providing expertise to solve people-related challenges.
• Work closely with Business Managers to understand their challenges and develop tailored HR, talent planning and client focused solutions.
• Drive and instill a high-performance culture, championing organisational change and help to embed HR into the business\'s core strategy, fostering a positive people culture.
• Influencing and developing HR policies and processes, adopting technology solutions and data analysis alongside the operational people team, to support recommendations, decision making and assessing impact.

The Person

• With proven experience as a HR Business Partner, we are ideally seeking an individual from a progressive professional services, consultancy or other knowledge-intensive environment organisations with similar overarching principles and strategic priorities.
• Degree qualified or equivalent, with evidence of further professional development.
• A natural relationship-builder, able to influence a senior stakeholder community positively.
• Ability to translate business needs into people solutions, with organisational development, change management, talent planning, and workforce strategy skills.
• Commercially minded and able to appreciate the financial implications of HR initiatives, bringing a commercial, people-first lens to all activity.
• Understanding of data, process optimisation etc. and the impact on people decisions.
• Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the resilience to manage multiple strategically significant priorities.

My client is offering a compelling package and alongside this they provide exciting career opportunities. This is a rare opportunity to have a significant impact within a large fast-growing business and shape a crucial role.

Based at their prestigious London offices, the role supports hybrid and flexible working with a typical 60/40 split in favor of the office.

If you feel you have the qualities my client is seeking, please forward your CV indicating your current package to Lee Rankin at GEM Partnership or for a discreet conversation call our Peterlee office.

GEM Partnership is acting as an employment agency on this vacancy.

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