Senior People Partner

Full time (37.5 hours per week)

About us:

At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest-growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners since 1985.

About the role:

You will partner with and support business leaders, working to deliver people initiatives including business transformation and workforce planning whilst ensuring a great employee experience for their people.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Collaborate closely with leaders to understand and analyse people challenges, and develop commercially focused People plans to maximise employee engagement and organisational sustainability.
2. Manage complex employee relations issues, mediating and resolving conflict when necessary.
3. Lead on the people aspects of business transformation and change initiatives, ensuring effective organisational design and modes of working.
4. Identify gaps in internal capabilities and performance and build strategic recruitment and development plans to achieve desired business results.
5. Project manage key People initiatives alongside the People Experience Managers.

About you:

1. Many successes in delivering stated business objectives through effective business partnering.
2. Managing multiple stakeholders, sometimes with conflicting agendas, and facilitating teams to deliver x-group objectives.
3. Sound talent management and workforce planning experience.
4. Demonstrable experience of using data to identify issues and inform decision-making.
5. Exposure to TUPE and post-close integration activity would be advantageous.
6. Experience across multiple organisations with some blue-chip exposure in recent past.
7. In depth working knowledge of current employment law.
8. An understanding of how a PE backed business would operate.
9. Appreciation of consulting and/or services businesses helpful.
10. Generalist knowledge base, with strengths in change and/or talent management.

QA’s benefits include: 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, 3 Training Days for QA courses & 2 volunteering days for a charity of your choice and professional Development, including qualifications.

We are an equal opportunity employer, our rankings on The Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List are a testament to this and we are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.

If this is the role for you, please apply and one of our friendly recruitment team will be in touch with the next steps.

Vacancy location Location

London, London, London (International House)