Human Resources Business Partner in London

We are excited to be partnering with a high performing, growth focused business on this opportunity. This is a brand‑new, newly created role, reflecting the organisation’s continued growth and investment in its people function.

The Organisation

This is an ambitious, fast moving business based in Central London. The organisation has scaled rapidly over recent years and continues to invest heavily in its people, leadership capability, and culture. The People function plays a critical role in supporting performance, engagement, and scalable growth. This newly created position offers the opportunity to join during an exciting phase of expansion and to help shape people practices in a high performing sales environment.

The Role

The business is seeking a hands‑on, generalist HR Business Partner to join the team in London. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys being close to the business, embedding themselves with leaders and teams, and balancing employee relations, engagement initiatives, operational delivery, and project work. The environment is fast paced, performance driven, and continually evolving, so agility, resilience, and a proactive mindset are essential.

Key Responsibilities

Employee Relations & Performance

• Provide day‑to‑day guidance to managers on employee relations matters including performance management, absence, disciplinaries, grievances, and investigations
• Coach managers through difficult conversations with a practical, commercial approach
• Ensure fair, consistent, and legally compliant outcomes across all cases
• Support both UK and US employee populations, ensuring local legislative requirements are met

Business Partnering & Engagement

• Build strong, credible relationships with stakeholders across the business
• Act as a trusted people advisor within a high performing sales culture
• Identify people trends, risks, and opportunities through data and observation
• Support organisational change, growth initiatives, and team development
• Contribute to engagement activities, culture initiatives, and people‑related projects

HR Operations

• Own end‑to‑end employee life cycle processes including onboarding, probation, internal moves, and exits
• Maintain accurate employee records and take ownership of HR systems and data quality
• Support payroll inputs, benefits administration, and operational HR queries
• Ensure policies, contracts, and documentation are up to date and well maintained

Compliance & Governance

• Support compliance with UK and US employment legislation
• Manage right‑to‑work checks, policy acknowledgements, and mandatory training tracking
• Assist with audits and help build scalable, compliant HR processes

The Candidate

• 4–6 years’ experience in a generalist HR role (HRBP, HR Advisor, or similar)
• Strong employee relations experience and confidence managing complex cases
• Proven experience supporting both UK and US employment frameworks
• Comfortable operating within a high‑performance, sales‑driven environment
• Background in professional services, recruitment, or a start‑up/scale‑up environment highly advantageous
• Pragmatic, commercial, and proactive approach to HR
• Agile mindset with a willingness to adapt, improve processes, and drive change
• Comfortable getting hands‑on with both strategic and administrative responsibilities
• Strong communicator with the credibility to influence at all levels

This role is fixed 4 days in the office.