Senior HR Partner — Strategy, Change & Talent

FirstPort; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstPort, the UK’s leading property management company, invites applications for a Senior HR Business Partner. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating people strategy into practical regional plans that improve performance, capability and engagement.

You will coach HR Partners, drive workforce planning, talent reviews and change initiatives, and partner with L&D to build leadership capability across the region.

Qualifications

• Significant HR Business Partnering experience within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of organisational development, talent management and workforce planning.
• Experience leading organisational design and change initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to operate credibly with senior leaders and executive teams.
• Strong commercial and strategic thinking capability.
• Evidence based decision making and data interpretation skills.
• CIPD Level 7 qualification or equivalent.
• Experience within a customer facing or operational environment.
• Experience supporting business transformation programmes.
• Experience working across a geographically or operationally diverse organisation.

Responsibilities

• Translate the organisational people strategy and business objectives into practical regional and business area people plans.
• Advise leaders on the workforce and people implications of business plans and organisational priorities.
• Support implementation of organisational people initiatives and ensure actions are embedded within the business.
• Use people insight and data to inform decisions, identify trends and provide constructive challenge to leaders.
• Lead workforce planning activity within the region or business area.
• Identify current and future workforce requirements, skills gaps and resourcing risks.
• Develop workforce plans that support operational delivery, growth and transformation.
• Ensure workforce plans align with organisational headcount governance and financial parameters.
• Drive capability planning against organisational competency frameworks.
• Identify future skills requirements and build plans to address emerging capability needs.
• Support learning and development initiatives linked to business and workforce priorities.
• Facilitate talent reviews and succession planning processes.
• Develop succession plans for critical roles using the organisational succession framework.
• Identify and support the development of high-potential talent across the region or business area.
• Lead organisational design reviews and restructuring initiatives within agreed organisational governance and methodology.
• Assess organisational effectiveness and recommend improvements to structure, accountabilities and ways of working.
• Support leaders through organisational change programmes.
• Provide leadership, direction and coaching to HR Business Partners, ensuring effective delivery across all regions and business areas.
• Ensure HR Business Partners translate the people strategy into effective business plans and consistent people outcomes.
• Work closely with HR Operations to ensure business partnering activity operates within agreed organisational frameworks, standards and processes.
• Share insight, trends and business requirements with the HR Director and wider people team to inform organisational priorities.

Skills

HRBP experience

Organisational development

Workforce planning

Talent management

Change management

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Leadership coaching

Commercial thinking

Education

CIPD Level 7

Job description

FirstPort, the UK’s leading property management company, invites applications for a Senior HR Business Partner. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, translating people strategy into practical regional plans that improve performance, capability and engagement.

You will coach HR Partners, drive workforce planning, talent reviews and change initiatives, and partner with L&D to build leadership capability across the region.