Senior People Business Partner

Do you have extensive experience partnering with senior leaders in a complex, high-performance organisation?

Can you demonstrate success leading organisational change, workforce planning and leadership development?

Are you commercially minded, data-led and capable of translating business strategy into an effective people agenda?

MacGregor Black are partnering with a highly successful, internationally recognised organisation on the search for a Senior People Business Partner . This is a permanent role based in Central London.

Operating as a trusted adviser to senior leadership, you will align the People strategy with wider organisational priorities across a significant and complex business area.

This is a highly influential role encompassing organisational design, transformation, strategic workforce planning, talent and succession, leadership capability and performance. You will also provide leadership and guidance to other People Business Partners while contributing to the continued development of the wider People function.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, providing constructive challenge, coaching and commercially focused people advice.
• Translate business strategy into clear people plans that address current priorities and future organisational requirements.
• Lead and support organisational design, transformation and change programmes.
• Develop strategic workforce plans that identify future capability requirements, skills gaps and investment priorities.
• Use people, operational and financial data to identify trends, anticipate risks and develop evidence-based recommendations.
• Partner with senior leaders to strengthen leadership capability and embed a culture of accountability and high performance.
• Lead talent and succession reviews, identifying critical roles, retention risks and future leadership requirements.
• Work closely with Talent Acquisition on senior appointments, talent mapping and the development of critical talent pipelines.
• Support the effective delivery of performance, objective-setting, compensation and annual review processes.
• Partner with Employee Relations colleagues on complex organisational and leadership changes.
• Collaborate with specialist People teams across Talent, Reward, Employee Relations and People Services to improve the employee experience.
• Provide leadership, coaching and support to People Business Partners and act as a role model across the wider People function.

What We’re Looking For:

• Extensive experience operating in a senior HR Business Partner or People Business Partner capacity.
• A strong track record of partnering with executive or senior leadership teams.
• Experience leading HR transformation and supporting significant organisational change.
• Strong organisational design, workforce planning and talent management experience.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen and an understanding of how people decisions affect business and financial performance.
• Confidence using people analytics, financial information and external insight to support decision-making.
• Excellent coaching, influencing and stakeholder-management skills.
• The ability to challenge constructively and align stakeholders around a clear organisational purpose.
• Experience gained within a complex, fast-moving or performance-led organisation.
• CIPD Level 7 or an equivalent level of professional experience.

£100-110k plus benefits

For more information, please contact Alice Redmond.