At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive people strategies and support a diverse workforce across iconic venues and events.
- Company: Join Sodexo Live!, a leader in unforgettable hospitality experiences.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible benefits, performance bonus, and car allowance.
- Other info: Opportunity to work in the exciting live events industry with excellent career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on people strategy in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Qualifications: CIPD qualification and significant HR experience required.
The predicted salary is between 46148 - 52809 £ per year.
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
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.
- Experience within hospitality, events, leisure, sports, retail or other customer-facing operational environments.
- Exposure to the live events industry.
Regional HR Business Partner in Scotland employer: Sodexo Live
Sodexo Live! is an exceptional employer that values its employees by offering a highly competitive salary, flexible benefits, and a performance bonus, all while fostering a dynamic work culture that thrives on collaboration and innovation. As a Regional HR Business Partner, you will have the opportunity to influence people strategies across iconic venues and events in Scotland and beyond, ensuring personal growth and development within a diverse and supportive environment. With a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, Sodexo Live! empowers its workforce to deliver extraordinary experiences, making it a truly rewarding place to work.
