Senior People Partner

Our client, a successful and growing Education institution in London now has an opportunity for an experienced Human Resources Business Partner to join their team on a permanent basis.

Please note: this role offers hybrid working arrangements with a minimum requirement of 2 days pw working from the London offices.

As HR Business Partner you will act as a trusted and credible partner to your stakeholder group, providing strategic and commercially viable advice, support and guidance on a full range of people matters.

Through an understanding of the business aims, commercial activity and strategic priorities of your client group, you will build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders to identify people priorities and challenges and take a data, insights approach to shaping solutions that drive positive change and mitigate risk.

This will include:

• Developing annual people plans that support local business plans and strategies
• Guiding senior recruitment and onboarding
• Advising and supporting on resource and talent management
• Leading on organisational change, including restructures and TUPE
• Leading on the implementation of new people policies and approaches
• Overseeing employee relations casework, managing a small team to provide effective resolution to informal and formal issues

To be considered you will require:

• Chartered MCIPD membership or equivalent professional experience
• Significant HR generalist experience gained within a complex organisation (Education or other Public Sector preferred), to deliver impactful strategic HR initiatives
• Experience of working as a strategic enabler with senior stakeholders to ensure strategic objectives are achieved and that people practices drive high performance and build people management capability
• Strong coaching, facilitating and negotiating skills, with experience of working in partnership
• Extensive experience of leading and managing complex ER casework, both formally and informally
• Experience of leading and managing organisational change including restructuring
• Strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practice, together with sound commercial and financial acumen, to enable business focused advice and decision making
• Experience of analysing complex data to identify trends and develop insights that inform people strategy and initiatives