Strategic HR Partner for Growth & Transformation

High Profile Resourcing Ltd; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

High Profile Resourcing Ltd is partnering with a private equity-backed UK services organisation to appoint a seasoned Senior HR Business Partner. The role requires commercial credibility, strategic thinking and hands-on delivery to shape the people agenda at senior levels.

You will work across a national footprint with regular travel, influencing organisational design, leadership capability and talent development to enable sustainable growth and improved business performance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a senior HR Business Partnering role.
• Strong commercial mindset and ability to connect people strategy directly to business outcomes.
• Proven experience of organisational design, workforce planning and organisational change.
• Experience in private equity-backed organisations, acquisition integration or significant business transformation would be valuable.
• Experience of geographically dispersed, field-based workforces.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted, influential relationships with senior leaders, developing a deep understanding of their commercial priorities, operational challenges and growth ambitions.
• Translate business strategy into clear, practical people plans that support revenue growth, operational effectiveness, profitability and organisational resilience.
• Provide thoughtful, evidence-based challenge, ensuring people decisions are commercially sound and support long-term business performance.
• Use workforce data, trends and insight to identify opportunities, anticipate risks and influence decision-making.
• Help leaders understand the relationship between workforce capability, productivity, employee engagement, retention and customer delivery.
• Partner leaders to assess current organisational structures, capability and ways of working against the requirements of the future business.
• Lead and support organisational design initiatives, ensuring structures, responsibilities and accountabilities are fit for purpose.
• Support business transformation, restructuring and change programmes with a clear focus on communication, engagement and successful implementation.
• Contribute to the people aspects of acquisitions and integration, including organisational alignment, cultural considerations, talent retention and leadership capability.
• Help build scalable people practices that support growth without losing the pace and entrepreneurial qualities that make the organisation successful.
• Coach and challenge leaders to strengthen their people management capability, decision-making and leadership effectiveness.
• Identify capability gaps and work with stakeholders to develop practical solutions.
• Drive succession planning and talent identification, ensuring the organisation is developing the leaders it will need tomorrow.
• Support the development of high-potential talent and stronger internal progression pathways.
• Build a culture of accountability, constructive feedback, high performance and continuous improvement.
• Provide expert, pragmatic guidance on complex employee relations matters, balancing legal compliance, fairness, commercial considerations and organisational values.
• Build management confidence in handling performance, conduct, absence and employee relations issues effectively.
• Support initiatives that improve employee engagement, retention and the employee experience.
• Work with leaders to understand cultural differences across teams and acquired businesses, helping develop a cohesive organisation while retaining the strengths of individual operations.
• Ensure policies and people practices are consistently applied, practical and appropriate for a geographically dispersed workforce.
• Maintain a visible presence across the business, building relationships with operational managers and frontline teams.
• Understand the realities of field-based service delivery, including workforce planning, management capability, productivity and retention challenges.
• Work directly with leaders to address people issues affecting operational performance.
• Balance strategic HR priorities with the ability and willingness to become involved in practical, hands-on delivery when required.
• Build credibility through sound judgement, responsiveness, ownership and a genuine understanding of how the business operates.
• Qualifications and technical expertise matter, but this appointment is equally about judgement, personality and impact.
• We are looking for someone with the confidence to sit alongside senior executives as a genuine business partner, but without the ego or hierarchy that can sometimes accompany senior HR roles.
• You will be resilient, approachable and highly credible, with the ability to build relationships across every level of an organisation.
• You will enjoy the pace and energy of a growing business, recognise that not everything will be perfectly structured and see that as an opportunity to make things better.
• Above all, you will understand that exceptional HR Business Partnering is not measured by the number of initiatives delivered, but by the difference it makes to leadership, people and business performance.
• This is an opportunity to join a business at a genuinely interesting point in its development.
• With private equity investment, a clear growth agenda and the opportunity to expand through acquisition, there is considerable scope to influence how the organisation evolves.
• You will work with ambitious senior leaders, contribute to meaningful organisational decisions and play an important role in creating the capability, culture and leadership strength required for the next stage.
• For an HR professional who wants influence, variety, pace and the opportunity to make a visible commercial impact, this is a compelling next step.

Education

CIPD Level 7 qualification or equivalent

Job description

High Profile Resourcing Ltd is partnering with a private equity-backed UK services organisation to appoint a seasoned Senior HR Business Partner. The role requires commercial credibility, strategic thinking and hands-on delivery to shape the people agenda at senior levels.

You will work across a national footprint with regular travel, influencing organisational design, leadership capability and talent development to enable sustainable growth and improved business performance.