Senior HR Business Partner

Job Title:

Senior HR Business Partner Band:5

Salary:£59,877 - £69,457

Location:

Liverpool/Newport/Norwich & Birmingham - HybridGCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata)
Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full - time Closing Date:16/10/2026

Interview Date(s):02/11/2026 (subject to change)
Call to action

At the Government Commercial Agency, we know that high-performing people drive value for the nation. We need a Senior HR Business Partner who masters strategic influence over simple process management.

Ready to align your HR expertise with national priority? Join us to lead the people strategies that transform commercial potential into value for the nation.

Job Summary This role acts as the strategic people link between HR and your assigned business directorate(s), providing the insight necessary to drive the people strategy to meet GCA objectives, this will include acting as a "critical friend" and coach to senior leadership teams.

Following the four core principles of the HRBP model, you will be responsible for:
* Strategic Partnering:
Partnering with executive and senior management to ensure department goals are backed by the right talent and capability. Focus on building strong relationships to support how they shape and deliver GCA people strategies across the directorates to drive measurable business impact.
* Solving:
Providing strategic input on people topics and developing pragmatic solutions for complex people challenges.
* Connecting:
Designing or commissioning large scale projects led by HR centres of expertise, helping the organisation draw on appropriate centres of expertise and shared service support.

* Coaching:

Empowering leaders to navigate ambiguity, develop capability, and sustain transformational change.

You will lead specific people projects and drive key agendas, including workforce planning, talent management, complex employee relations and organisational design to translate directly into commercial value.

To support team engagement, there is a minimum requirement of 2 days per week in a GCA office, along with adhoc travel to other GCA locations as and when required.

Key Accountabilities:

Strategy & Partnering
* Elevating business conversation by partnering with leaders to drive the people strategies that power organisational success.
* Translating business objectives and strategy into functional people plans, ensuring measurable, sustainable outcomes that add value to the business.
* Acting as a trusted advisor and providing expert advice to Senior Leadership Teams (SLTs), proactively offering high-level challenge and data driven insight on all people-related subjects
* Driving strategic workforce planning within directorates, ensuring they have the right capacity and capability to deliver their objectives
* Partnering with HR Centres of Excellence, providing feedback from the business, shaping organisational people strategy and effective change initiatives
* Building and maintaining strong relationships across the organisation with senior leaders, functional leads and staff networks, developing people plans to enable the business to achieve strategic objectives

Capability Development
* Coaching and influencing business leaders to optimise capability, accessing expertise from the L&D team to develop robust talent management, leadership pipeline and succession planning, and enhance line-manager performance across directorates
* Collaborating with the L&D Business Partners to drive a high performance learning culture within directorates.

Operations
* Providing directorate SLTs with insights into Business Partnering progress, trends, risks, and…