Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Senior People Business Partner

Birmingham | Hybrid with UK Travel | Permanent

£80,000 + Benefits

We’re partnering with a large, customer-focused organisation to appoint a Senior People Business Partner to an influential, newly elevated role supporting two important and evolving areas of the business.

This is a broad partnering opportunity that combines the pace and complexity of a geographically dispersed frontline operation with the chance to work directly with Directors and senior leadership teams on growth, transformation, organisational effectiveness, and the future people agenda.

The ideal candidate will bring the right balance of operational understanding and strategic HR capability.

You’ll need to understand what it takes to support large, dispersed and fast-moving operational teams, while also having the commercial credibility and strategic capability to step up and influence at Director level.

The role

Your remit will include:

• Acting as a trusted strategic partner to Directors and senior leadership teams, providing insight, challenge and commercially focused people solutions
• Translating business strategy into a clear people agenda that supports growth, productivity, performance and customer experience
• Supporting the evolution of a geographically dispersed operational workforce as new services and ways of working are introduced
• Leading thinking around organisational design, capability, workforce planning and organisational effectiveness
• Developing robust talent, succession and leadership plans to ensure the business has the capability required for future growth
• Supporting significant transformation, cultural change and integration activity
• Using people data alongside operational and commercial insight to identify challenges, shape priorities and influence decision-making
• Coaching and constructively challenging senior leaders, building accountability and strengthening leadership capability
• Identifying opportunities to improve structures, ways of working, team effectiveness and colleague experience
• Working closely with specialist People teams across employee relations, talent acquisition, learning, reward, inclusion and wellbeing

You’ll operate within a centre of excellence model, drawing on specialist People teams while retaining ownership of the senior business partnering relationship.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for an established Senior HR Business Partner who has operated within a sizeable, complex and ideally geographically dispersed organisation.

You’ll bring strong operational credibility; someone who is also comfortable operating strategically without becoming disconnected from what is happening on the frontline.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Significant senior People Business Partnering experience within a large and complex organisation
• A strong track record of partnering directly with Directors and senior leadership teams
• Experience within a fast-paced operational environment such as logistics, retail, field services, engineering, distribution or another multi-site customer-facing business
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect people decisions with business performance and financial outcomes
• Experience of organisational development, organisational design and workforce transformation
• Strong capability across workforce planning, talent, succession and leadership development
• Experience supporting businesses through significant growth, change or cultural transformation
• Confidence using data and business insight to challenge thinking and influence senior-level decisions
• The resilience and credibility to work with a range of leadership styles and constructively challenge at senior level
• A pragmatic, grounded approach and a genuine understanding of the pressures facing frontline operational leaders and teams

The opportunity

This is an opportunity to join at an exciting point in the organisation’s evolution.

The role itself has been reshaped and elevated because the business needs more than traditional operational HR support. They’re looking for someone who can become a genuine strategic partner to the leadership team while retaining the operational credibility to understand what is happening across the business.

You’ll be predominantly aligned to the Birmingham site, with flexibility to work in a hybrid way and travel to operational locations across the UK when required.

If you’re a commercially minded senior People professional who enjoys being close to the business, can hold your own around a senior leadership table and thrives in organisations going through growth and change, we’d love to hear from you.