Senior HR Business Partner

As HR Business Partner, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering People & Culture solutions that help leaders drive performance, engagement and organisational effectiveness. You'll act as a trusted advisor, balancing day-to-day support with longer-term strategic initiatives.

Your remit will cover both People Solutions (projects, change and organisational design) and People Advisory (employee relations, policy guidance and leadership support). You'll work closely with operational managers, senior stakeholders and specialist centres of expertise to ensure P&C strategies are embedded across your region.

This role is both a blend of strategically and operationally aligned.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic & Project-Focused
  • Deliver people and culture strategies aligned to business goals across the commercial life-cycle (win, operate, grow, keep)
  • Lead and support change programmes, restructures and organisation design activity
  • Develop and implement People & Culture solutions to address skills gaps, engagement challenges and workforce needs
  • Partner with CoEs to embed policy updates, new frameworks and capability-building initiatives
  • Contribute to risk management through proactive mitigation planning and data-led insights
• Operational & Advisory
  • Act as a trusted adviser to leaders across multiple sites, ensuring consistent application of people policies and best practice
  • Manage complex employee relations cases, including TUPE and union engagement where required
  • Coach managers to build capability and confidence in leading their teams
  • Support employee experience, talent, succession and retention initiatives
  • Attend operational meetings to provide people insight, challenge thinking and influence decision-making

You will lead, inspire, mentor and coach a high performing team of operational Business Partners and Advisors.

This role is based in the North West and carries multi-site responsibility across the North of England and Scotland. It operates on a hybrid working model, with three days per week spent on-site across the portfolio.