Senior HR Business Partner

Cencora; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cencora, Alliance Healthcare UK, seeks a Senior HR Business Partner to align people strategy with business goals. You will partner with ELT-1 leaders, drive transformation, and lead workforce planning and succession efforts within AH UK.

Based primarily in a remote capacity with travel to Chessington, you will operate within the HR Operating Model and collaborate with Talent, Reward, and Shared Services to deliver impactful people solutions.

Qualifications

• Significant prior experience in strategically impactful HR Business Partnering roles.
• Proven track record of delivering through transformation, organisation design and workforce planning.
• Comfortable partnering and influencing at senior/executive level.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex people transformation programmes, including organisation design and large-scale workforce change.
• Advise ELT/ELT-1 leaders with commercially focused people guidance and coaching.
• Drive talent management and succession planning across client groups.

Skills

Strategic HRBP

Senior leadership partnering

UK employment law

Talent & succession

Workforce planning

Education

CIPD qualification

Tools

HR data analytics

Job description

Job Details

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Position Summary

This is a Senior HR Business Partner position and the primary interface between HR and senior business leaders across Alliance Healthcare UK (AH UK). Supporting AH UK Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and ELT-1 leaders, the role is responsible for aligning people strategy with business objectives, ensuring that organisational capability, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning and culture are critical enablers of business success. Operating within the Cencora HR Operating Model, you will work in close partnership with Centres of Excellence across Talent, Reward, Employee Relations and Shared Services to design and deliver people solutions that support both current and future business needs. The role balances strategic leadership with practical delivery, with a particular focus on organisational transformation, workforce planning, talent and succession, and complex people change programmes. This is a transformation and project delivery focused Senior HRBP position, not a generalist or day-to-day business partner role. The successful candidate will spend the majority of their time leading and delivering significant people programmes and change initiatives for the AH UK business. This role would suit an autonomous and collaborative business partner, who enjoys owning complex, meaningful work and driving tangibles outcomes at pace. This role is primarily remote based, however will require travel across AH UK's network including to attend meetings at our Chessington office.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading complex people transformation programmes, including organisation design, restructuring, large-scale workforce change and people exits, ensuring legal compliance and effective stakeholder engagement throughout
• Acting as a trusted strategic advisor to ELT and ELT-1 leaders, providing commercially focused people guidance, constructive challenge, and coaching to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team performance
• Driving talent management and succession planning activity across your client groups, facilitating talent reviews, identifying critical roles, and ensuring development actions land and deliver impact
• Using people data, workforce analytics and business insight to identify risks and opportunities, influence senior decision making, and track the effectiveness of people initiatives
• Developing and delivering integrated people plans that align to business strategy, address capability gaps, and support future organisational requirements
• Working in close partnership with CoEs across Talent, Reward, Recruitment and Shared Services to deliver cohesive, commercially focused people solutions
• Supporting cyclical HR activity including performance cycles, compensation review, and enterprise talent programmes, ensuring consistent and high-quality delivery across your client groups
• Leading HR workstreams associated with acquisitions, integrations, business transfers and TUPE activity where required, translating business strategies into people-focused programmes with sustainable outcomes
• Building communication and engagement plans that support successful change adoption, and coaching leaders to build organisational readiness throughout periods of significant business change

Candidate Requirements

Experience and Education

• Significant prior experience in strategically impactful HR Business Partnering roles
• A proven track record of delivering through complexity, including transformation, organisational design and workforce planning programmes
• Comfortable partnering and influencing at senior and executive level
• Background in highly operational industries such as logistics, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing or retail fit well here
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and employee relations practice required. Experience supporting unionised employee populations and industrial relations activity would be beneficial
• CIPD or equivalent qualification preferred
• An earlier grounding in sales, recruitment or similarly fast-paced, stakeholder-heavy environments is a real plus

Key Attributes

• Autonomous and proactive, able take a brief and deliver
• Direct and to the point, able to distil complex information to important data and actions
• Resilience, staying focused in a challenging environment and bringing others with you
• Collaborative, building trust quickly and delivering within a matrixed HR model

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: Alliance Healthcare Management Services Limited

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law. The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory. Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email [e-mail]. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned