Group HR Business Partner

Group HR Business Partner – Pinsent Masons

Location:

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

We are looking for a Group HR Business Partner to support our organization’s strategic HR initiatives across the firm.

• Understand the objectives and overall strategy of the group and deliver HR support aligned with business goals.
• Act as the lead HR contact for team restructure and consultation programmes.
• Attend leadership team meetings for allocated teams, lead on appropriate agenda items.
• Support talent processes including performance reviews, career conversations, promotion cycles and the delivery of the group-wide talent management plan.
• Coach and influence managers on people management practices and performance plans.
• Work with central recruitment to ensure end-to-end recruitment activity and provide proactive recruitment support.
• Support the group HRM and central reward team in annual salary review and bonus processes, process approvals for promotions, salary changes and incentives.
• Work with L&D to implement learning programmes and support ad‑hoc training interventions.
• Manage core employee relations cases and support investigations, documentation and escalation.
• Analyse HR metrics, prepare dashboards and report exit interview data.
• Provide commercial & organisational awareness and identify operational improvements.
• Build strong working relationships across the group and support other HRBP roles as required.

• HR generalist experience in a business partnering or advisory roleli>
• Experience supporting managers across the full employee lifecycle.
• Experience working in professional services or a complex matrix organisation is desirable.
• Strong relationship building and influencing skills.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of how HR contributes to business performance.
• Strong technical HR skills and good working knowledge of employment legislation and best practice.

• Professional and proactive approach.
• Trusted advisor and open, collaborative, consultative.
• Adaptable, resilient and able to handle sensitive issues with confidentiality and care.

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.