Strategic People Partner

Reporting into senior leadership, this role will act as a trusted strategic advisor to Executive and senior management teams, shaping and delivering a people strategy that directly supports business objectives and drives organisational performance.

This is a highly visible role, offering the opportunity to influence at the most senior levels while leading transformational initiatives across organisational design, leadership development, talent management, workforce capability and culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Executive and senior leadership teams to translate business strategy into commercially focused people plans.
• Lead the development and delivery of strategic workforce, talent and succession initiatives.
• Shape and deliver organisational design and organisation development programmes to improve effectiveness and performance.
• Identify capability, leadership and talent gaps, implementing solutions to build organisational strength and future readiness.
• Drive cultural change initiatives that support business transformation and long-term success.
• Utilise workforce analytics, commercial data and business insights to inform decision-making and measure impact.
• Partner with HR Centres of Excellence to ensure a coordinated and effective people strategy.
• Provide expert advice and challenge on complex people matters, organisational change and employee relations.
• Build strong relationships with employee representative groups and key stakeholders across the organisation.
• Champion leadership capability, employee engagement and high-performance cultures across the business.

You will be an accomplished senior HR leader with a proven track record of influencing and partnering with executive-level stakeholders in large, matrix organisations.

• Significant experience coaching, influencing and constructively challenging senior executives and leadership teams.
• Strong strategic HR expertise, with experience aligning people strategies to business priorities.
• Demonstrable success leading organisation design, organisational development and business transformation initiatives.
• Deep understanding of talent management, leadership development, culture and workforce planning.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to connect people initiatives to business outcomes.
• Experience using data and insight to inform strategic decisions and measure organisational impact.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to navigate complexity and competing priorities.
• Experience working with employee representative groups and managing complex change agendas.
• Resilience, sound judgement and credibility in highly complex environments.

Please note that only applicants with the right to work in the UK will be considered for this position.