As a key member of the UK People & Culture leadership team, the People Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders across multiple business units. Reporting into the Executive Director – Head of People & Culture, this role blends high‑quality partnering with operational excellence—shaping people strategy, influencing decision‑making, and ensuring an exceptional employee experience.
This role also provides day‑to‑day leadership and works closely with the People Operations, Reward, Talent and DEI teams to ensure consistent, aligned and high‑quality delivery across the People & Culture function.
While strategic partnering is central to this role, you will also bring strong employee relations capability, managing complex and sensitive cases with fairness, confidence, and sound judgement.
Experience supporting reward processes (including salary review and bonus cycles) is an advantage.
Strategic Partnering & Trusted Advisor
- Build deep, effective partnerships with senior stakeholders—acting as a sounding board, coach, and trusted advisor.
- Shape and influence people plans that balance people best practice with commercial priorities.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues across the HR team (People Operations, Reward, Talent, DEI) to ensure integrated, consistent and high‑quality people support.
- Use data, insight, and business context to guide decision‑making and strengthen leadership capability.
- Drive employee engagement by partnering with leaders to understand team sentiment and develop action plans.
- Support leaders in building robust talent pipelines, succession plans, and capability development.
- Challenge and influence leaders with pragmatic recommendations that balance risk, culture and commercial impact.
Employee Relations
- Lead complex ER cases with sound commercial judgement.
- Provide expert advice on UK employment law and practical, commercially‑aware solutions.
- Proactively identify people risks and mitigate commercial, reputational, and operational impact.
Reward (Desirable)
- Support reward cycles through commercially grounded pay and bonus recommendations.
- Advise leaders on pay decisions that balance competitiveness, affordability, and internal equity.
People Projects
- Lead or contribute to strategic projects across talent, engagement, DEI, wellbeing and organisational development.
- Deliver talent management initiatives including succession and leadership development.
- Support engagement initiatives that lift productivity, culture and retention.
- Drive continuous improvement of policies, processes, and manager capability.