People & Culture; HR Business Partner

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we’re helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market‑leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.

For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

• Flexible work options – part‑time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement – client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award‑winning Learning & Development programs

This role forms part of the UK/EMEA People & Culture (P&C) business partnering team and contributes to the firm’s success by providing advice, coaching and support across a broad range of P&C matters spanning the employee lifecycle. Working in collaboration with P&C divisional leads and function heads, this role will focus on enabling partners/business leaders (across a dedicated client group) to effectively manage and support their people, create high levels of employee engagement and build an inclusive, high‑performing culture.

This role will provide operational and strategic business partnering to a dedicated client group and respective Practice Heads/Partners in the London and Glasgow offices, providing advice, coaching and support across a broad range of P&C matters spanning the employee lifecycle.

Working in collaboration with Global P&C divisional leads and Centres of Excellence, you will focus on enabling partners/business leaders to effectively manage and support their people with a focus on developing and retaining talent, employee engagement and wellbeing to drive a culture of high performance.

The role will have accountability for the delivery of programmes and initiatives aligned to the P&C and business area strategy and supporting large‑scale change programmes across the firm, working collaboratively across the P&C partnering team, the wider P&C function and key stakeholders.

This is a full‑time, permanent role based in our Glasgow office with hybrid working. Frequent travel to our London office will be required.

A full job description including a breakdown of responsibilities can be found attached to the role on our careers page.

• Significant experience in business partnering at a senior stakeholder level, able to navigate through complexity and ambiguity, and supporting change and transformation programmes in a fast‑paced, complex professional services environment.
• Strengths in Employee Relations and a good understanding of the many different responsibilities of the wider People & Culture function (e.g. Reward & Benefits, Learning & Organisational Development, Talent Acquisition, Resourcing etc).
• Demonstrable experience of supporting a tech workforce.
• The ability to think and operate strategically, operationally and creatively with a down‑to‑earth and pragmatic approach to people solutions.
• Superior stakeholder management – ability to act as a trusted advisor to Practice Heads and their leadership teams, coaching and developing capability, demonstrating the confidence, resilience and maturity to challenge and push back as required in order to make an immediate and sustainable impact.
• Experience of working in a fast‑paced and changing work environment.

Additional Documents:
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