Business Partner

People Business Partner – 12-Month FTC

Join AllPoints Fibre (APFN) and help shape our people strategy to drive organisational success. As part of our dynamic People & Culture team, you’ll build strong, trust-based relationships across the business and deliver impactful, people‑focused solutions aligned with strategic goals.

AllPoints Fibre is revolutionising UK connectivity. Our API‑driven platform, aquila, unifies major networks like Openreach, BT Wholesale, and City Fibre, enabling service providers with automation, real‑time visibility, and rapid scalability.

As a strategic partner, you’ll work closely with managers and senior stakeholders to translate business objectives into meaningful people initiatives, enhance capabilities, and foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. This role spans multiple locations, so regular travel is required. This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract to cover maternity leave.

• Exceptional relationship‑building skills
• Ability to influence and inspire at all levels
• Passion for driving organisational growth and culture

• Strategically partner with stakeholders to drive organisational success through people‑focused initiatives, ensuring alignment between business priorities and people strategies.
• Embed HR strategy into the core of business planning, ensuring people initiatives directly support and accelerate organisational goals.
• Cultivate strong, influential relationships with key stakeholders to proactively address people challenges, acting as a trusted advisor across the business.
• Serve as a strategic conduit between specialist teams and the wider organisation, offering expert guidance on new people initiatives and ensuring consistent, values‑led implementation.
• Collaborate with leaders to resolve complex employee matters, promoting a culture of openness, trust, and continuous improvement.
• Lead and advise on critical people practices, including organisational change, TUPE, and employee relations, ensuring decisions are fair, compliant, and strategically sound.
• Champion performance and development frameworks, embedding systems that enhance individual and team effectiveness and support long‑term capability building.
• Coach and influence stakeholders, delivering training and feedback that improves leadership capability and drives operational excellence.
• Work closely with Talent Acquisition and business leaders to forecast workforce needs and develop strategic workforce plans that support future growth.
• Leverage people data and analytics to generate insights, measure impact, and inform strategic decision‑making across the organisation.
• Provide coaching and support to the People Operations Specialist, fostering their development and ensuring operational excellence in people practices.

• Proven experience as an HR Business Partner
• Excellent stakeholder management experience
• People management skills
• Is able to understand and interpret HR metrics
• Excellent knowledge of employment legislation
• Ideas orientated and always looking for ways to improve the employee experience
• CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience.

At AllPoints Fibre Networks, we're all about looking after you. We offer an extensive wellbeing package that goes beyond the EAP. Your benefits will include Bupa private medical insurance and dental cover, income protection insurance, group life insurance and a health plan to help with day to day expenses such as eye care… we will even pay for you to get a massage!

Everyone needs a break now and then, right? That's why we start all our employees off with a generous 30 days' annual leave allowance (pro rata), plus bank holidays. And if you ever need some extra time off due to illness or parental leave, we've got enhanced leave plans in place to support you through that.

Additionally we kNow how important it is to feel secure with your finances. That's why we have benefits dedicated to your financial wellbeing
. You will be able to join our employer contributory pension and in addition to income protection insurance, group life insurance we offer cashback and voucher schemes to…