Assistant HR Business Partner

Ipsum Utilities Limited; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Ipsum Utilities Limited is seeking an experienced Assistant HR Business Partner to join the Power division, working with senior leaders to deliver people solutions. You will own the full employee lifecycle and balance hands-on delivery with data-led insight.

Reporting to Head of HR, you will influence workforce effectiveness, lead on TUPE, acquisitions, and integration programmes, and support engagement and leadership development.

Qualifications

• Extensive generalist HR experience across the employee lifecycle.
• Proven track record leading complex change initiatives (restructures, TUPE, acquisitions).
• Strong knowledge of employment law and practical application.
• Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience delivering strategic HR solutions with commercial impact.

Responsibilities

• Partner with SLT and operational leaders to develop workforce and succession plans.
• Use data and insights to drive performance improvements and engagement.
• Lead organisational design, transformation, and change initiatives end-to-end.
• Provide HR guidance on employment law and usage of HR processes.
• Support engagement surveys, culture programmes, and leadership development.

Skills

HR generalist

Stakeholder management

Change management

Employment law

People data

Education

CIPD Level 5 or equivalent

Job description

We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded Assistant HR Business Partner to join our Power division, partnering closely with Senior Leadership Teams and operational leaders to deliver impactful people solutions.

In this role, you'll act as a trusted advisor, owning the full employee lifecycle and ensuring that our people strategy drives performance, enhances culture, and builds long‑term organisational capability. This is a highly visible role where you will balance hands‑on operational delivery with strategic, data‑led insight.

Working alongside the Head of HR, you'll play a key role in delivering the divisional people agenda, aligned to the wider HR strategy. You'll influence workforce effectiveness, strengthen leadership capability, enhance engagement, and support critical business change initiatives.

This role also provides the opportunity to lead on the people aspects of growth activity, including acquisitions, TUPE transfers, and integration programmes, ensuring they are delivered smoothly, compliantly, and with strong commercial outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

As an Assistant HR Business Partner, you will:

• Partner with leaders to develop robust workforce and succession plans, ensuring effective performance management frameworks are in place
• Use people data and insights to drive performance improvements and enhance employee engagement
• Lead and support organisational design, transformation, and change initiatives end‑to‑end, including TUPE and acquisitions
• Act as a trusted voice within SLT and management forums, providing pragmatic HR and employment law guidance
• Support the delivery of key HR initiatives, including engagement surveys, culture programmes, and leadership development

You’ll also provide hands‑on support across the full employee lifecycle, including:

• Attraction, onboarding, and induction
• Probation reviews and performance management
• Employee relations (disciplinaries, grievances, absence, and performance concerns)
• Flexible working requests
• Reward, pay reviews, and benefits
• Restructures, redundancy processes, and offboarding

Alongside this, you’ll:

• Coach and empower managers to build leadership capability and accountability
• Drive consistency and best practice in people management across the business

You’re a confident and credible HR professional who thrives in a fast‑paced, matrix environment. You may already be operating at HR Business Partner level, or you’re an experienced Senior HR Advisor ready to step up into your next challenge.

You’ll bring:

• A strong generalist HR background with solid experience across the employee lifecycle
• Proven experience of leading complex change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE, and contract variations
• A strong working knowledge of employment law and its practical application
• The ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
• A track record of delivering commercially focused, strategic HR solutions

You’ll also be:

• CIPD qualified (Level 5 minimum)
• An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable navigating change
• Proactive in your approach to both business challenges and your own development

We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job - you’re starting a career with real support behind it.