Senior People Partner — HR Strategy, Change & Coaching

Inizio Ignite; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

Pension contribution

Income protection

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee discounts portal

Job summary

Inizio Ignite in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on HR People Partner to partner with leaders across service lines and countries, delivering practical, compliant HR support. You will lead employee relations, programme delivery, and coaching, balancing strategic partnering with day-to-day execution while driving performance and engagement.

This role combines data-driven insights with advisory excellence in a dynamic, matrixed environment, with hybrid working options.

Qualifications

• Significant HR experience in an HR Generalist, HR Manager, or equivalent business-facing role.
• Proven experience partnering with business stakeholders through coaching and credible challenge.
• Strong employee relations expertise, with experience handling complex and sensitive cases while balancing business need, employee experience, and risk.
• Strong working knowledge of employment law, HR policy application, and compliance requirements within relevant country or regional markets.
• Demonstrated ability to lead or support cross-functional HR projects and programme rollouts.
• A passion for AI and strong data analysis capability with the ability to interpret people data, identify trends, and use insight to inform action.
• Advanced change management capability, including stakeholder engagement and change planning.
• Strong business acumen, including understanding of business drivers, organisational priorities, and how HR practices support performance and growth.
• Strong communication and executive presence, with confidence to raise issues, recommend solutions, and influence decision-making at multiple levels.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to support the implementation of people strategies and plans within designated client groups, countries, or regions.
• Lead or support the rollout of key HR programmes, including performance and reward, organisational design and restructuring support, development and career-path planning, culture and engagement initiatives, and people leader development.
• Provide local market and country insight to ensure HR programmes are relevant, practical, and compliant.
• For countries with a Country Management Team, act as a trusted HR partner to that team.
• Provide complex case management advice and support across disciplinary matters, performance management, redundancies, long-term sickness, grievances, and other sensitive employee matters.
• Manage employee relations matters in line with local employment legislation, internal policies, and company values.
• Support legal compliance and help ensure HR policies and practices meet statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with managers and relevant HR stakeholders to mitigate risk, promote fair process, and drive timely resolution of people issues.
• Provide proactive HR consultation to people managers on a wide range of team, people, and organisational issues.
• Coach and support people leaders on complex employee issues and effective people management practices.
• Build strong working relationships with in-country managers and offshore managers with people responsibility in the relevant markets.
• Use judgement to balance business priorities, employee experience, and compliance risk.
• Analyze people data and trends to identify risks and opportunities.
• Use data to inform decisions and drive improvements.
• Highlight trends to stakeholders and propose practical interventions.
• Support continuous improvement of HR processes, policies, and ways of working.

Skills

HR strategy & advisory

Employee relations

Stakeholder management

Data analysis in HR

Change management

Policy compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, or related field

Job description

Inizio Ignite in the United Kingdom is seeking a hands-on HR People Partner to partner with leaders across service lines and countries, delivering practical, compliant HR support. You will lead employee relations, programme delivery, and coaching, balancing strategic partnering with day-to-day execution while driving performance and engagement.

This role combines data-driven insights with advisory excellence in a dynamic, matrixed environment, with hybrid working options.