HR Business Partner

About the Role

HR Business Partner
Full-time, Permanent
UK - London or Preston

Are you a commercially minded HR professional who thrives on building strong relationships, influencing leaders and driving positive business outcomes?

We're looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping our people strategy. Working closely with senior leaders, you'll act as a valued partner, helping to deliver impactful people initiatives that support business growth, organisational effectiveness and employee engagement.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and solutions-focused HR professional who enjoys working in a dynamic environment, balancing strategic partnership with hands‑on operational support. You'll collaborate with leaders across the business to drive talent development, workforce planning, organisational change and performance, while using people insights to support informed decision-making and build management capability.

If you're passionate about making a real difference, building high-performing teams and contributing to business success through great people practices, we'd love to hear from you.

• Building strong relationships with senior leaders and managers, acting as a trusted HR partner to support the delivery of business objectives and drive people-focused solutions.
• Providing expert HR guidance across the full employee lifecycle, ensuring a positive employee experience and a consistent, high-quality people service.
• Coaching, influencing and challenging managers to build leadership capability, improve performance and make confident people decisions.
• Leading on a broad range of employee relations matters, offering pragmatic advice that balances commercial needs, employee experience and legal compliance.
• Supporting organisational change initiatives, restructures and workforce transitions, helping teams navigate change effectively and successfully.
• Working with leaders to identify current and future workforce needs, addressing skills gaps, succession planning requirements and key resourcing priorities.
• Driving talent, performance and capability initiatives that help individuals, teams and the wider business reach their full potential.
• Using people data and workforce insights to identify trends, risks and opportunities, translating findings into meaningful actions that improve business performance.
• Championing employee engagement, wellbeing and an inclusive, high‑performing culture where people can thrive.
• Collaborating with colleagues across HR Shared Services and specialist HR teams to deliver seamless people solutions and support wider business and HR initiatives.
• Contributing to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance HR processes, systems and ways of working.

• CIPD Level 7 qualified, or able to demonstrate equivalent HR expertise gained through experience.
• Proven experience in an HR Business Partner, HR Manager or senior HR generalist role.
• A strong track record of providing both strategic and operational HR support within a fast-paced business environment.
• Experience managing complex employee relations matters and supporting organisational change initiatives.
• Confidence partnering with, influencing and building credibility with senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Experience working within a multi-site, matrix or complex organisational structure would be advantageous.

• Strong understanding of UK employment law and best practice across the employee lifecycle.
• Knowledge of workforce planning, talent management, performance development and organisational change.
• An appreciation of HR governance, risk management, reward and job architecture principles.
• Commercial awareness and…