People Business Partner (Multi-site across Surrey, London and Kent)

Based in Woking but travel across Surrey, London and Kent.

Candidates must have experience of Business Partnering across a multi-site environment

Candidates who have worked in Hospitality, Retail, Restaurants, or a Schools Network/ Multi-Academy Trusts, would be a good fit.

Due to continued business growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced People Business Partner to join this organisations with a focus on the Operations team in the field, you will collaborate closely with the Regional Directors and Regional Operations Managers, across approximately 200 plus schools. Reporting to Head of People Business Partnering you will joining a growing People team that is making a real impact on the success of the organisation.

The overall purpose of the role is to partner with operational leaders to deliver commercially grounded people plans, lead complex employee relations and organisational-change activity, strengthen leadership capability and use workforce insight to improve performance. The role is a senior generalist partnering role spanning complex ER and legal risk, change and TUPE, workforce and talent planning, reward, culture, leadership support, analytics, safeguarding and compliance.

Daily responsibilities will include:

• Complex Employee Relations: Lead complex employee-relations cases, redundancy consultation, settlement agreements, tribunal preparation, ACAS engagement, legal liaison and employment-law advice, ensuring risks and decisions are clearly governed.
• Organisational Change: Partner leaders on workforce planning, restructures, structure reviews, TUPE, consultation, change projects and transformation programmes, balancing legal compliance, employee impact and business outcomes.
• Strategic Partnering: Develop strategic people plans, support leadership teams, provide commercial challenge and contribute to Future Ready, Focus 10, new-business and retention activity.
• Talent and Capability: Shape career pathways, skills mapping, talent and bench-strength reviews, management capability, assessment activity and academy initiatives with L&D and operational leaders.
• Reward and Recognition: Contribute to salary bench-marking, pay reviews, bonus schemes, NJC and National Minimum Wage compliance, and lead or support recognition activity.
• Culture, Engagement and Wellbeing: Drive values, behaviour frameworks and engagement initiatives; promote EAP, mental-health and neurodiversity support and help leaders create an inclusive, healthy culture.
• People Insight: Use people analytics, trend identification, dashboards and data-driven recommendations to identify risk, prioritise action and measure progress.

The ideal candidate will:

• Have worked as a Generalist HR Business Partner/People partner previously and have experience of a complex operational environment, including a multi-site environment.
• Have significant experience managing complex and high-risk employee relations cases
• Strong knowledge of UK employment practice, organisational change, consultation, restructures and TUPE.
• Commercial awareness, with the ability to translate business priorities into practical people plans
• Confidence advising, coaching and constructively challenging leaders
• Experience of workforce planning, talent development and improving leadership capability
• Candidates who have worked in Hospitality, Retail, Restaurants, or a Schools Network. Multi-Academy Trusts, would be a good fit.

Successful candidates will benefit from 25 days Annual leave, plus bank holidays, access to rewards and a yearly Summer Party. The successful candidate will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

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