Senior People Business Partner

OneAdvanced Limited; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Bank holidays

Private medical insurance

Pension with matched contributions

Life assurance 4x salary

Employee Assistance Programme

Volunteer day

Dental insurance

Job summary

OneAdvanced is seeking a Senior People Business Partner to partner with senior leaders, shaping organisational design, workforce capability and performance to help the business scale.

In this hybrid Birmingham-based role, you will translate business priorities into a clear people agenda, drive talent strategy, succession planning and capability development across a fast-paced technology environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Senior People/HR Business Partner in complex organisations.
• Strong ability to translate business strategy into people plans and initiatives.
• Experience with organisational design, workforce planning and succession.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted advisor to senior leaders and translate priorities into actionable people plans.
• Lead organisational design and strategic workforce planning balancing costs and future needs.
• Partner on talent, succession and performance to strengthen pipelines for critical roles.
• Embed talent architecture including career pathways and capability frameworks.
• Lead change initiatives including operating model changes and global ways of working.
• Use data and talent insights to influence decisions and measure impact.
• Shape engagement and retention strategies to reduce attrition and improve experience.
• Champion AI-first and tech-enabled ways of working to reshape roles and skills.
• Lead cross-functional People initiatives to support leaders and teams.

Skills

Strategic advisory

Organisational design

Workforce planning

Talent & performance

Data-driven decisions

Commercial acumen

Job description

Join OneAdvanced

You'll be joining an award-winning People team, recognised as CIPD People Team of the Year and HRExcellence People Team of the Year, inside a business named among the FT's Best Employers in Europe and one of the UK's most innovative companies.

We're looking for an experienced Senior People Business Partner to work alongside senior leaders, this is a genuinely strategic partnering role. You'll translate business priorities into a clear people agenda, shaping organisational design, workforce capability, performance, talent and engagement to help the business scale and deliver its ambitions.

You'll work closely with senior leaders operating in a commercially driven environment, so you'll need to understand how a business performs, the financial and operational levers behind that performance, and how the people agenda can directly influence results.

You'll also play an important role in our continued transformation as an AI-first organisation, helping leaders rethink skills, roles, structures and ways of working.

This is a hybrid role with 2–3 days per week working from our Birmingham HQ.

What You Will Do

• Act as a trusted strategic advisor and coach to senior business leaders, translating business priorities into clear, actionable people plans.

• Lead organisational design and strategic workforce planning, balancing cost, capacity, capability and future skills requirements.

• Partner with leadership teams on talent, succession and performance, strengthening pipelines for business-critical and hard-to-fill roles.

• Help embed our talent architecture, including job families, levelling, capability frameworks and career pathways, supporting our move towards a more skills-based organisation.

• Lead the people agenda across organisational change and transformation, including operating-model changes, restructuring and evolving global ways of working.

• Use people data, business metrics and talent insights to identify priorities, influence decisions and measure impact.

• Shape engagement and retention strategies, using insight to strengthen the employee experience and reduce regretted attrition.

• Champion AI-first and technology-enabled ways of working, helping leaders understand how AI, automation and workflow improvements can reshape roles, skills and productivity.

• Lead and contribute to cross-functional People initiatives that improve how we support our leaders, teams and wider business.

What You Will Have

You'll already be operating as an established Senior People/HR Business Partner, working directly with senior leadership teams in a complex organisation.

We're particularly interested in experience gained within technology, SaaS, professional services or similarly fast-paced, commercially focused environments would be highly relevant.

You'll also bring:

• Significant experience operating in a strategic People/HR Business Partnering role

• Strong commercial acumen, with the confidence to understand and discuss business and financial performance and connect this to the people agenda.

• Experience working within a medium or large, matrixed organisation and navigating multiple senior stakeholders.

• Evidence of translating business strategy into a meaningful people and workforce strategy.

• Strong organisational design and strategic workforce planning experience.

• Exposure to talent architecture, career frameworks, skills or capability programmes.

• Confidence using data, talent metrics and commercial insight to challenge thinking, influence strategy and demonstrate impact.

What We Do For You

Wellbeing that means something

• 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave, 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions

Financial benefits that have your back

• Performance-based rewards tailored to your role, from company-wide bonuses to OTE and commission structures
• Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it
• Pension with 5% matched company contributions
• Life assurance worth 4x your salary from day one
• Free financial planning session with the option to engage in more tailored financial coaching.

Grow your career with us

• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships

Making a Difference

• MatchIt! Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heaven donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger

Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:

• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover, Health Assessment, Gym Membership

Who We Are

At OneAdvanced, we are at the forefront of delivering sector-focused technology solutions that simplify complexity, drive meaningful progress, and help build a fairer, more inclusive society.

We’re much more than a software company. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services that power organisations across Education, Government, Healthcare, Legal, Manufacturing, Housing, Retail, and more.

OneAdvanced is one of the UK’s largest business software and services companies. Based in Birmingham (The Mailbox), operating across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia.

Our secure, scalable platform, including OneAdvanced AI, our private AI service for UK organisations, powers connectivity and innovation across critical sectors. Alongside our software are our IT services, including hosting, managed services, and application modernisation.

We strive to create an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and collaboration, championing diverse perspectives and ideas. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy is embedded in everything we do, guiding us to create meaningful impact for our people, our customers and the planet.

Proud to be recognised in the Financial Times’ Best Employers 2026 list for the second-year running, an independent and data led ranking based on employee feedback. Join us and become part of a team that’s powering the world of work and making a real difference.

Join us and become part of a team that’s powering the world of work and making a real difference.

Learn more at www.oneadvanced.com