Business Partner

Role: People Business Partner

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Sunbury-upon-Thames, UK (hybrid working available, allowing a mix of office/home working)

Salary: Up to £70,000 (depending on experience), plus company benefits

NOTE:
Please note - we will only be accepting direct applications and will not be engaging any recruitment agency.

Yorktel-Kinly is a unified global leader in collaboration, systems integration, and managed services. We focus on transforming work spaces, simplifying complexity, and empowering people. Our in‑house expertise includes AI‑powered room monitoring, 24/7 support, and a unique enterprise service layer, enabling us to operate with even greater agility, efficiency, and precision.

With 27 offices in 11 countries, 1,600 colleagues, 900 specialist accreditations, 40‑years' professional experience and 2,500 customers, we are delivering scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions around the world.

It is an exciting time at Yorktel‑Kinly, as our transformation across the business continues. As a result, we have new opportunities for Human Resource professionals to join our highly collaborative team, to assist the business in our new era.

We now have an opportunity for a proven HR / People Business Partner, to join us, to act as a strategic and operational partner to defined client groups across the UK‑Region.

Working closely with leaders and colleagues “on the front line”, the role provides commercially focused, pragmatic advice and support across the full people lifecycle including talent management, employee relations, organisational development, performance, reward, and culture.

The Business Partner plays a key role in embedding and advancing Yorktel‑Kinly’s people strategy, ensuring people programmes, policies, and practices are aligned to both local business needs and Kinly’s global people and business objectives.

• Partner with extended management teams to develop and implement people strategies that support business growth, transformation, and performance
• Act as a trusted advisor on organisational and people‑related matters, offering insight, challenge and solution‑focused recommendations
• Translate business plans into effective people plans, supporting workforce planning, organisational design and capability development
• Provide thought leadership on people and culture initiatives, ensuring consistency with Yorktel‑Kinly’s values and strategic direction

• Provide end‑to‑end people support for agreed departments and cost centres across the UK region offices
• Manage complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary and grievance processes (up to and including dismissal), redundancy scenarios and performance management cases
• Lead investigations and hearings in line with policy, best practice and employment legislation
• Support dispute resolution and coach managers to manage issues effectively and consistently

• Work closely with the Head of People and Global People Director, collaborating with other People Business Partners and the broader People team
• Lead, manage and develop a small People team including recruitment, objective setting, 1:1s, appraisals, and development planning
• Champion continuous improvement within the People function, identifying opportunities to enhance service delivery, processes and capability
• Actively support and promote the EUSA internship programme

• Coach and partner with managers to deliver effective performance management and employee development aligned to Yorktel‑Kinly’s annual performance review cycle
• Provide expertise in feedback, coaching, development planning and succession considerations
• Contribute to the design and delivery of people‑led programmes across attraction, retention, learning & development, reward and engagement
• Support recruitment activity as required, including participation in senior or final‑stage interviews within client groups

• Work in close partnership with the Compensation & Benefits Manager to ensure accurate and timely processing of UK region payrolls
• Support…