Job Description
- Job Title: Regional HR Business Partner - Sodexo Live! UK&I
- Location: Scotland with travel required across the UK
- Highly competitive Salary plus £1,300 Flexible Benefit funds, 15% performance bonus plus car allowance
- 40 hours working 5 days over 7 days
- Driving Licence required
Job Introduction
At Sodexo Live!, we’re passionate about creating unforgettable moments. From world‑famous sporting venues and iconic racecourses to prestigious cultural destinations and major live events, we deliver exceptional hospitality experiences that leave a lasting impression on millions of guests every year.
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Regional HR Business Partner to join our UK & Ireland team. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious HR professional who thrives in fast‑paced, operational environments and wants to influence people strategy across a diverse portfolio of venues and events.
Supporting a large, diverse workforce across a portfolio of iconic venues and events, you’ll play a critical role in driving performance, enabling growth, and ensuring our people are equipped to deliver extraordinary guest and fan experiences.
What You'll Do:
- Partner with senior leaders to develop and deliver people strategies that support business growth and operational excellence.
- Lead workforce planning initiatives, ensuring we have the right people, skills and capabilities to meet fluctuating event demand.
- Support the recruitment, retention, engagement and development of both permanent and casual workforces.
- Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations matters, organisational change and people risk.
- Drive talent management, succession planning and performance initiatives across the region.
- Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, engagement, recognition and wellbeing programmes.
- Use HR analytics and workforce data to influence decision‑making, improve productivity and optimise labour costs.
- Support business development activities, mobilisations and people transitions for new and existing contracts.
- Coach and develop managers, helping them build high‑performing and engaged teams.
- Collaborate closely with HR Centres of Excellence and wider HR teams to deliver a seamless people experience.
What You Bring:
- CIPD qualification, degree‑level education or equivalent HR experience.
- Significant HR Business Partner or senior HR generalist experience.
- Proven experience supporting large‑scale casual, seasonal or contingent workforces.
- Strong knowledge across employee relations, talent management, succession planning, organisational development, reward and change management.
- Experience working within complex, multi‑site operational environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management, coaching and influencing skills.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to use people data to drive business outcomes.
- Confidence operating within a matrix organisation and managing competing priorities.
- The ability to build trusted relationships with leaders, clients and colleagues at all levels.
Desirable
- Experience within hospitality, events, leisure, sports, retail or other customer‑facing operational environments.
- Exposure to the live events industry.
What we offer:
- Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
- Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
- Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
- The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
- Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
- Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan.
- A Death‑in‑Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo.
- Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
- Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
- Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
- Flexible and dynamic work environment.
- Competitive compensation.
- Full training and full protective uniform supplied.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and are a disability confident leader. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities.
