Senior People Business Partner

As a Senior People Business Partner (SPBP), you will act as a strategic business consultant, deeply embedded in your client groups to drive the delivery of the People strategy. You will partner with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges through people-focused solutions, leveraging data, insights, and systemic HR practices. Your role will be pivotal in shaping the future of the organization by aligning human capital with evolving business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering – Develop trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor and change agent. Understand business priorities and proactively shape people strategies to support growth and transformation.
• Systemic HR Delivery – Lead the implementation of the BR People Strategy across your client groups and contribute to firmwide initiatives. Collaborate with HR Centres of Expertise (COEs) to deliver integrated, scalable, and impactful HR solutions.
• Employee Experience & Engagement – Champion a data-informed approach to employee experience. Use insights to drive engagement, retention, and performance, ensuring a consistent and high-quality experience across the employee lifecycle.
• Talent & Workforce Planning – Support succession planning and leadership development. Partner with Finance, Talent Acquisition, Resourcing and Capability to assess workforce needs, identify skills gaps, and develop sustainable talent strategies.
• Employee Relations Leadership – Work with People Advisory Service to ensure consistency, legal compliance, and best practice in employee relations. Lead on strategic ER projects.
• Agile Project Leadership – Work across cross-functional teams on priority projects, adapting quickly to changing business needs.
• Collaboration Across HR Functions – Build strong relationships with COEs including Talent Acquisition, Capability, Operations, Change and Culture, People Advisory Service to ensure seamless integration of HR services and alignment with business goals.

Qualifications / Person Specification

• Fully CIPD qualified or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience as a strategic HRBP in a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Strong business acumen and ability to translate business strategy into people solutions.
• Expertise in employee relations, performance management, reward, and employment law.
• Demonstrated capability in organization design, change management, and data-driven decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels.
• Comfortable working in agile structures and cross-functional teams.
• Passionate about continuous improvement, innovation, and systemic HR practices.
• Experience in professional services or similar environments is desirable.

Capabilities & Behaviours

• Strategic thinker with a proactive mindset.
• Skilled communicator and relationship builder.
• Analytical and data-literate, using insights to inform decisions.
• Collaborative and adaptable, thriving in dynamic environments.
• Committed to personal development and lifelong learning.

What is in it for you?

Coming up with a strict set of rules that work for every team and individual in a business as diverse as ours isn’t possible. Instead, we have BRighter Working, a framework to find ways of working that give us individually and collectively a great experience, while continuing to provide the highest quality service to our clients when and where they need us.

• Hybrid working – where teams are working together in multiple locations i.e. a BR office, a client site, their home or somewhere else.
• Synchronous/Asynchronous working – using the office or technology to work together at the same time / using technology and different ways of working to work at different times to colleagues.
• Smarter working – finding simpler, more efficient ways of delivering services to clients and working together as a BR team.
• Flexible working – a temporary or permanent change to someone’s terms and conditions which fixes a working pattern different to the standard contract.
• Pension – Looking after your future self when it’s time to step back and relax.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays – Time to focus on what’s important to you.
• Private Medical Insurance – Taking care of your health.
• Permanent Health Insurance – Financial protection in the event of illness or injury.
• Life Assurance – 4 x times salary, our family is important to us, and so is yours.
• Employee Referral Bonus – We’re always looking for talented individuals to join our family.
• Employee Benefits Portal – Cashback and vouchers on everyday purchases.
• Extensive Learning & Development Opportunities – Continuous development and support not only for your professional qualifications but also for your personal goals and aspirations, so we can grow together.
• Opportunity to attend social events – Time to stop, pause and have fun.
• Career Coaching – Better never stops. Sharing our time to make the best use of yours.