People Partner

Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives on partnering with managers, resolving complex employee relations matters, and driving positive change?

We are seeking a talented People Partner to join a forward-thinking organisation and play a key role in supporting leaders and employees across a diverse workforce. This is an exciting opportunity to influence people practices, support organisational development, and help create an inclusive and high-performing culture.

The Opportunity

As a People Partner, you will work closely with managers and stakeholders, providing expert advice, coaching, and support across the full employee lifecycle. You'll combine strong employment law knowledge with a practical, people-focused approach to help managers make effective and informed decisions.

This is a varied role offering exposure to employee relations, policy development, organisational change, talent management, employee experience, and diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

HR Partnering

• Partner with managers to develop their people management capability.
• Provide expert advice and guidance on people-related matters.
• Support managers with attendance, performance, conduct, wellbeing, and workplace relationship issues.
• Build strong relationships across the organisation to understand business needs and deliver effective people solutions.

Employee Relations

• Manage and support a wide range of employee relations cases including attendance, performance, grievance, disciplinary and conduct matters.
• Coach managers through complex people issues and support early resolution wherever possible.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, policies and best practice.
• Support employment tribunals, ACAS matters and other external proceedings where required.

Policy, Change & Continuous Improvement

• Support the development and implementation of people policies, procedures and guidance.
• Analyse workforce data and trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Contribute to people projects and organisational change initiatives.
• Drive continuous improvement across people processes and employee experience.

Diversity, Inclusion & Employee Experience

• Champion fair and inclusive practices across the organisation.
• Support equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Contribute to employee engagement activities and initiatives.
• Challenge practices that may impact fairness, inclusion or employee wellbeing.

Talent & Development

• Support talent management and succession planning activities.
• Provide coaching and career development guidance.
• Contribute to recruitment, assessment and selection processes.
• Support leadership and management development initiatives.

About You

You'll be a proactive HR professional with strong employee relations experience and the confidence to build effective working relationships at all levels.

Essential Experience

• Previous experience within a HR Business Partner, People Partner or Senior HR Advisor role.
• Strong employee relations experience including disciplinary, grievance, performance and attendance management.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice.
• Experience coaching and developing managers.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Strong communication and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience using HR systems and analysing people data.