Senior HR Business Partner

GEM Partnerships; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading human resources firm in London seeks an experienced Senior HR Business Partner. The role involves shaping people strategies that align with business goals and enhancing organizational capability. Responsibilities include acting as a key link between HR and business managers, managing workforce strategies, and influencing HR policies. This position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and exciting career growth opportunities in a 60/40 hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus opportunities

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a HR Business Partner in professional services or consultancy.
• Ability to translate business needs into people solutions.
• Commercially minded with a strong understanding of HR financial implications.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic link between HR and business managers.
• Support stakeholders on HR matters including workforce planning.
• Drive a high-performance culture and champion organizational change.

Skills

Relationship building

Change management

Workforce strategy

Data analysis

Talent planning

Education

Degree qualified or equivalent

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.

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.

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.

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.