HR Business Partner in Birmingham

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a HR Business Partner to join our Pensions & Savings People Team.

Job Type: 12 month FTC

Location: This role could be based in Birmingham or Edinburgh offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

Closing Date: 05 / 01 / 2026

Salary and benefits: £65,000 - £75,000 DOE plus an indicative bonus range of 16-32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more.

Who are we? We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked. We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role: We have an exciting opportunity to join the Pensions & Savings People Team. You will work as a strategic business partner enabling delivery of the people agenda to:

• Lead Organisation Design and implementation, supporting the management of change through engagement activity, sharing intended benefits and outcomes, strong stakeholder management and effective communication.
• Provide expert consultancy, at a multi-disciplinary or deep specialist level, to support and enable successful delivery of Group Operations plans.
• Work alongside the centre of excellence teams to support and deliver the Talent, Learning, Reward, Culture, Diversity and Inclusion plans for the function.
• Use technical knowledge, skills and experience to influence stakeholders and leadership teams in line with the people strategy, governing policies, legislation and appropriate regulation.
• Use data, metrics and other information to develop insight to identify opportunities for improvement and develop proposals that bring about positive change, reinforcing and underpinning business objectives.
• Build and maintain relationships with managers up to and including executive level and other internal and external stakeholders to ensure advice and recommendations are relevant, informed, sustainable and commercially viable.

What are we looking for?

• Proven HR experience of business partnering, organisation design or strategic delivery at senior management level in a financial services environment.
• Lateral thinker, capable of delivering innovative and pragmatic solutions at pace and through others where required.
• Commercial acumen and an understanding of the business, with the ability to work strategically and tactically across the whole employee lifecycle, always demonstrating added value.
• An autonomous and independent operator, with the ability to balance leading organisational design and delivery of large scale people impacts, alongside BAU activities and build business as well as HR knowledge, with desire to learn and grow in role.
• Excellent communication skills and proven experience of influencing, coaching and challenging leader behaviour to drive culture change and the achievement of business and people outcomes aligned to the business vision and priorities.

We want to hire the whole version of you. We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.