Strategic HR Partner for Change & Separation

Equiniti; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Health & wellbeing

Life assurance

Employee discounts

Flexible benefits

Holiday entitlement (29 days)

Volunteer days

Learning & development

Job summary

Equiniti, a global fintech, is seeking an HR Business Partner for EQ Retirement Solutions on a 12-month fixed-term contract in Crawley. The role partners with business leaders to deliver commercially focused people solutions across the employee lifecycle and supports the separation from Equiniti Group, alongside day-to-day HR initiatives.

You will drive organizational design, employee transitions and change activities, lead TUPE projects, and advise on complex employee relations while ensuring

Qualifications

• Significant HR Business Partnering experience within a commercial organisation.
• Strong HR generalist knowledge across employee relations, organisational design, talent management, engagement, reward and workforce planning.
• Demonstrable experience supporting organisational change, consultation exercises and TUPE transfers.
• Experience of managing complex employee relations cases and providing pragmatic, commercially focused advice.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility quickly at senior leadership level.
• Excellent coaching and facilitation skills.
• Experience of analysing workforce data and translating insights into meaningful actions and recommendations.
• Strong understanding of UK employment legislation and HR best practice.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and HR systems, including Workday.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to translate the People strategy into practical plans aligned with business objectives.
• Provide proactive HR support and challenge to leaders on organisational, people and workforce matters.
• Support the EQ Retirement Solutions separation programme, including organisational design and people-related change activities.
• Act as a key People lead on TUPE projects, consultation activity and employee transfer arrangements.
• Support managers through organisational change, restructuring and workforce planning initiatives.
• Lead and support complex employee relations matters, including disciplinaries, grievances, absence management, redundancies and settlements.
• Support cyclical People activities including performance reviews, talent planning and pay reviews.
• Drive employee engagement initiatives and develop action plans from feedback.
• Coach and develop managers to strengthen leadership capability.
• Work with managers to identify people trends, workforce risks and opportunities using HR data and analytics.
• Produce and present people metrics and board reporting to support decision-making.
• Partner with Resourcing, Reward, L&D and People Services for integrated people management.

Skills

HRBP

HR generalist

Organisational design

Employee relations

Workforce planning

Stakeholder management

Coaching & facilitation

Workforce analytics

TUPE knowledge

Workday

Education

CIPD Level 5/7

Tools

Workday

MS Office

Job description

Equiniti, a global fintech, is seeking an HR Business Partner for EQ Retirement Solutions on a 12-month fixed-term contract in Crawley. The role partners with business leaders to deliver commercially focused people solutions across the employee lifecycle and supports the separation from Equiniti Group, alongside day-to-day HR initiatives.

You will drive organizational design, employee transitions and change activities, lead TUPE projects, and advise on complex employee relations while ensuring