Senior People Partner

Hometree; England; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Hometree is seeking a Senior People Partner for Installs to support around 100 colleagues across Cornwall, Kent, and London, with the CORGI HomeHeat team dispersed nationwide. The role focuses on translating group strategies into practical people plans for installer and engineer teams.

You’ll own populations, build plans, and act as a trusted advisor to the Directors of Operations and Commercial, sitting on the Installs Senior Management Team to shape the division’s people framework.

Job description

Hometree Group · People Department
Salary: £65,000 + bonus
Role type: Permanent, full-time
Location: Remote, south of England based, with quarterly travel to Cornwall and Kent (see Location & Travel below)
Reporting to: Head of People Partnering

About Hometree

Founded in 2015, Hometree has become one of the fastest-growing challengers in the UK home services market. We span home cover that protects the essential systems in the home, renewable installations like solar, batteries and heat pumps, and the financing that makes them affordable. Together, we help homeowners look after their homes and move to greener, lower‑carbon living.

Our installer businesses are where a big part of that promise gets delivered. They are established, well‑regarded local companies with their own brands, their own reputations and their own way of doing things, now part of a larger, private equity backed Group. That combination, local businesses with real identity, inside a Group with investment behind it, is exactly what makes this role interesting.

We're also going through the biggest step change in our history. By acquiring OVO Energy's Home Services division, including the trusted CORGI HomePlan and HomeHeat brands, we're becoming one of the UK's leading home services groups, with fresh investment to fuel our next phase of growth.

Key Achievements

• UK's third-largest home cover provider: our latest acquisition makes us the third-largest provider of home cover in the UK.
• 7 Acquisitions: we've expanded our operations by acquiring key companies across financing (Hometree Finance, formerly Bewarm), home cover (OVO Home Services, CORGI HomePlan and Your Repair) and energy services (Geowarmth, The Little Green Energy Company, CORGI HomeHeat, IMS and GreenGen).
• 400k Homes Covered: we cover over four hundred thousand homes across the UK.
• 550+ Employees: we have over 550 passionate employees transforming the industry across the Group, one home at a time.

The Role

You’ll be the senior People Partner for Installs: around 100 colleagues across three parts of the division, our southern-based installer businesses in Cornwall and Kent, each with its own brand and local reputation; our central Installs team in London; and our remote CORGI HomeHeat boiler installation team, dispersed across the country.

The installer businesses are entrepreneurial companies that have joined our Group, and part of the job is helping them keep what makes them distinctive while getting real value from the scale, investment and support that now sits around them. You’ll be the first point of contact for installer management and a trusted advisor to the Director of Operations and Director of Commercial who run the division, working directly with both office and field-based teams. You’ll sit on the Senior Management team for Installs alongside the Chief Commercial Officer, the Director of Operations, the Director of Commercial and other senior stakeholders, contributing as a member of that team rather than only as its people adviser.

Much of the job is translation: making the case for where a Group approach genuinely adds value, and making sure our frameworks are shaped by what actually works for an installer and an engineer on a roof. It’s an autonomous role, you’ll own your populations, build your own plans and make your own calls, with escalation the exception rather than the rhythm of the job and because we’re a lean team, we’d like someone with a generalist streak who will get stuck in when the centre is stretched.

Responsibilities

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