Senior HR Business Partner

Responsibilities

• Partnering with senior leaders to improve organisational effectiveness, workforce planning, leadership capability, and team performance
• Coaching managers through performance management, employee relations, organisational change, and complex people challenges
• Using people data and organisational insight to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, driving pragmatic and commercially balanced solutions
• Leading strategic people initiatives, L&D and change programmes, ensuring strong stakeholder engagement and successful adoption
• Supporting organisational design and team structure planning to enable sustainable scaling across technical and specialist teams
• Influencing leadership teams to improve consistency, accountability, and maturity of people management practices across the organisation
• Collaborating with HR Operations and People team colleagues to continuously improve processes, employee experience, and organisational capability

• Significant experience in a strategic HR partnering role within a fast-paced, scaling, and highly technical environment
• Experience working within technology, scientific, engineering, or R&D organisations
• Proven ability to partner with senior stakeholders including Heads of Function, Directors, and VP-level leaders
• Strong experience leading organisational change, workforce planning, and organisational effectiveness initiatives
• Expertise in coaching leaders through complex employee relations, performance management, and organisational challenges
• Strong stakeholder management, influencing, and leadership coaching capabilities
• Data-driven approach to decision making with the ability to translate insight into practical business outcomes
• Experience operating effectively in ambiguous, evolving, and high-growth environments
• Strong understanding of employment law, organisational risk, and people policy application
• Excellent communication, presentation, facilitation, and project management skills