Senior HR Business Partner

GEM Partnership; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in London seeks an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to shape and deliver proactive people strategies. The role focuses on aligning HR strategies with business objectives, driving talent development, and fostering a high-performance culture within the organization. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits, along with exciting career opportunities to make a significant impact in a fast-growing business environment. Hybrid working model available with a typical 60/40 office split.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Exciting career opportunities

Flexible working model

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner in professional services or consultancy.
• Ability to translate business needs into effective people solutions.
• Understanding of data and process optimization.

Responsibilities

• Act as strategic link between HR and business leaders.
• Support stakeholders on workforce planning and talent development.
• Drive a high-performance culture within the organization.

Skills

Strategic HR alignment

Relationship-building

Organizational development

Change management

Talent planning

Education

Degree or equivalent with further professional development

Job description

Role: Senior HR Business Partner

Salary: Competitive Basic Salary plus comprehensive benefits and bonus

Location: London (60/40 hybrid working after induction period)

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

• Act as a strategic link between HR, Business Managers and wider senior leadership, aligning human resources strategies with overall business objectives to drive commercial success.
• Support stakeholders on HR matters such as workforce planning, org design, succession planning and talent development, providing expertise to solve people‑related challenges.
• Collaborate with Business Managers to understand their challenges and develop tailored HR, talent planning and client‑focused solutions.
• Drive and instill a high‑performance culture, champion organisational change and help embed HR into the business's core strategy, fostering a positive people culture.
• Influence and develop HR policies and processes, adopt technology solutions and data analysis alongside the operational people team, to support recommendations, decision making and assess impact.

The Person

• Has proven experience as an HR Business Partner, ideally 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, 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 favour 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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