Senior People Partner

We Are Adam; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Manchester is seeking a Senior People Business Partner to drive HR transformation in a fast-paced environment. This role requires strong communication skills, HR expertise, and the ability to navigate ambiguity. With a competitive salary and a hybrid working model, this is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of the organization.

Benefits

10% bonus

25 days holiday plus option for 5 extra

5% pension

Well-being perks and discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a HR Business Partner in an agile environment.
• Track record of influencing and coaching leaders.
• Deep expertise across engagement, reward, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a partner to Commercial and Corporate functions providing insight.
• Use data and strategy to elevate performance and culture.
• Drive change in leadership capability and organisational design.

Skills

Communication

Coaching

Influencing

Organisational Design

Performance Management

Job description

Senior People Business Partner (Hybrid) - Manchester - Upto £75,000 - Permanent

Do you thrive in agile, fast-moving environments where structure is still being shaped—and your influence helps define it?

We’re on the lookout for a Senior People Business Partner who knows how to bring stakeholders on a journey. Someone who gets that transformation is just as much about communication and mindset as it is about process. If you’ve got the credibility, the comms agility, and the HR expertise to operate at pace, keep reading.

In this role, you’ll:

• Act as a true partner to Commercial and Corporate functions bringing insight, challenge, and support.
• Use data, empathy, and strategy to elevate performance and culture.
• Be a driving force for change—whether that’s improving leadership capability, shaping reward, embedding new ways of working, or designing org structures.
• Operate with commercial savvy, making sure People initiatives deliver real business impact.
• Collaborate with a passionate People Team to create scalable, progressive solutions across the employee lifecycle.

This role is for you if you:

• Bring gravitas and presence—people naturally trust you and look to you for guidance.
• Know how to flex your communication style—you can talk data and strategy with senior leaders and switch seamlessly to inspire frontline teams.
• Love a bit of healthy ambiguity
• Want to build and execute, not just inherit and maintain.
• Get a buzz from working in a high growth, agile business that’s evolving quickly and reshaping its future.

You’ll need:

• Proven experience as a HR Business Partner, ideally in an agile, fast paced environment partnering corporate functions
• A strong track record of influencing and coaching leaders through change.
• Deep expertise across engagement, reward, organisational design, and performance.
• Confidence working in environments where not everything is defined—you’re not only comfortable with that, you thrive on it.

You'll get:

• A salary of between £70,000 - £75,000 depending on experience
• Upto 10% bonus
• 25 days hol (plus option to buy upto 5 extra)
• Pension at 5%
• Plus wider bens including discounts and wellbeing perks
• A hybrid working environment, c 2 days in the office per week

This is a chance to join a company at a pivotal stage of growth—where the future is being written right now. You’ll help shape that story.

Sound like you? Send your CV via the link to be considered.

Equity, diversity, and inclusion are integral to everything that we do. We are committed to these values and they are central to our mission. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, and we are more than happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require.