At a Glance
- Tasks: Partner with leaders to shape people strategies and drive organisational change.
- Company: Join an award-winning team at OneAdvanced, a leader in tech solutions.
- Benefits: Enjoy 26 days holiday, paid family leave, and private medical insurance.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team driving innovation and positive change.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by embedding AI and improving employee experiences.
- Qualifications: Experience as a People Business Partner in tech or consulting environments.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
Join OneAdvanced as we continue to scale, evolve how we serve our customers and embed AI into the way we work. You'll be joining an award-winning People team, recognised as CIPD People Team of the Year and HR Excellence People Team of the Year, inside a business named among the FT's Best Employers in Europe and one of the UK's most innovative companies.
This is a genuinely strategic partnering role. Working alongside our Services leadership team across the UK and India, you'll help shape a function that has the right structure, skills and capability to scale, deliver profitably and continuously improve the experience we provide to our customers.
If you're at your best when you're challenging and coaching senior leaders, solving complex workforce problems and using data to turn business strategy into people decisions, we'd love to hear from you.
What You Will Do
- Act as a trusted partner to our Services leadership team, translating commercial priorities into a clear and actionable people strategy.
- Lead on organisational design and strategic workforce planning across a multi-disciplinary, dual-geography workforce.
- Embed our talent architecture, including job families, levelling, capability frameworks and career pathways across technical, consulting and support roles.
- Partner with leaders on talent, succession and performance, strengthening pipelines for business-critical and hard-to-fill roles.
- Use people data and talent metrics to identify challenges, influence decisions and measure the impact of our people strategy.
- Develop targeted engagement and retention strategies to reduce regretted attrition and strengthen the employee experience.
- Champion AI literacy and adoption across Services and work with leaders to think differently about roles, skills, workflows and productivity.
What You Will Have
- Significant experience operating as a People Business Partner or HR Business Partner, ideally within technology, SaaS, professional services, consulting or another complex people-led organisation.
- Comfortable operating in a medium or large matrixed business and able to demonstrate the end-to-end impact you've personally had.
- Strong strategic partnering with senior business leaders and leadership teams.
- Experience translating business strategy into meaningful people and workforce plans.
- Commercial understanding and an appreciation of how workforce decisions affect business performance.
- Hands-on organisational design experience, strategic workforce planning and a skills-based approach to organisational capability.
- Technology-enabled organisational change, whether through AI, automation, workflow improvement or broader digital transformation.
- Experience partnering a Professional Services, consulting, implementation, customer delivery or technology Services organisation would be particularly valuable.
What We Do For You
- 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year.
- Exceptional family leave, including fully paid maternity/adoption and paternity leave.
- Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support.
- Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions.
- Performance-based rewards tailored to your role.
- Pension with 5% matched company contributions.
- Life assurance worth 4x your salary from day one.
- Free financial planning session with the option to engage in more tailored financial coaching.
Who We Are
At OneAdvanced, we are at the forefront of delivering sector-focused technology solutions that simplify complexity, drive meaningful progress, and help build a fairer, more inclusive society. We’re much more than a software company. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services that power organisations across various sectors.
OneAdvanced is one of the UK’s largest business software and services companies, based in Birmingham, operating across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia. Our secure, scalable platform powers connectivity and innovation across critical sectors.
We strive to create an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and collaboration, championing diverse perspectives and ideas. Join us and become part of a team that’s powering the world of work and making a real difference.
People Business Partner in Birmingham employer: OneAdvanced Limited
At OneAdvanced, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that fosters a culture of innovation and collaboration. Our commitment to employee wellbeing is evident through generous benefits such as 26 days of holiday, robust sick pay, and comprehensive family leave policies. Located in Birmingham, our dynamic work environment offers ample opportunities for professional growth through our SkillsHub learning platform and external training, making it an ideal place for Systems Engineers looking to advance their careers while contributing to meaningful projects.
