Senior People Partner

Senior People Partner - County Antrim - Newly created

MCS Group is delighted to be exclusively partnering with a large, ambitious organisation undergoing significant transformation to appoint a Senior People Partner to its People function.

The role:

This is a commercially focused, strategic partnering role offering the opportunity to influence senior leadership, shape workforce strategy and support major organisational change.

The main responsibilities:

• Developing and delivering functional people plans aligned with wider business objectives.
• Advising leaders on workforce costs, labour spend, budgets and organisational performance.
• Leading workforce planning in response to growth, automation and changing capability requirements.
• Supporting organisational design, restructuring and operating-model transformation.
• Leading initiatives across culture, engagement, leadership capability, talent and organisational effectiveness.
• Using people data and workforce intelligence to identify risks, trends and opportunities.
• Facilitating talent and succession-planning discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Providing oversight and guidance on formal employee-relations matters.
• Driving process improvement and ensuring consistent people practices across the organisation.
• Providing direction and support to People Partners aligned with the relevant business areas.

The successful candidate:

• Strong strategic HR business partnering experience.
• Confidence influencing and constructively challenging Executive and Senior Leaders.
• A clear understanding of P&L, workforce budgets, labour costs and commercial decision-making.
• Experience developing workforce plans aligned with operational and financial objectives.
• A successful track record in organisational change, transformation and process improvement.
• Experience supporting organisational design, restructuring or new operating models.
• The ability to use people data to inform commercial decisions.
• Strong, hands‑on employee-relations experience, supported by practical and up-to-date knowledge of Northern Ireland employment legislation.
• Experience within manufacturing, engineering, construction or another complex operational environment would be desirable.

What's on offer:

• Competitive base salary (dependent on experience).
• Bonus.
• Flexible hours.
• Early finish on a Friday.

MCS Group is committed to Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion for all, being the first recruitment agency in NI to achieve Bronze Diversity Mark accreditation, if you have a disability which means you require a reasonable adjustment to be considered at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us and we will endeavour to facilitate the request.