HR Business Partner - Strategic Delivery

About the role

In your role as HR Business Partner - Strategic Delivery you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to drive the delivery of the People Strategy across USS. It leads key initiatives from design through to embedding, working closely with HR Business Partners and leaders to ensure they are aligned to business priorities and delivered in a way that is practical, consistent, and sustainable. The role operates flexibly across the HR function, bringing additional capacity and expertise where needed, including stepping into business partnering activity to support the business directly. It also plays a key role in bringing external insight and a focus on continuous improvement, ensuring that people practices evolve and deliver meaningful outcomes for colleagues and the organisation.

What you will be doing

People Strategy Delivery

• Lead the delivery and embedding of the People Strategy and broader HR change initiatives across the organisation
• Act as delivery lead, or SME depending on the initiative, bringing expertise and insight to shape approach and outcomes
• Translate strategic priorities into clear delivery plans with defined milestones, ownership and outcomes
• Maintain focus on progress, pace, and impact, ensuring initiatives stay on track and deliver meaningful results
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to understand business priorities, challenges and context, ensuring initiatives are relevant, aligned and practical to implement

EDI, Culture and Engagement

• Lead and programme manage the EDI governance framework, strategy and action plan
• Support reporting on inclusion and diversity metrics, including benchmarking against external market data, and provide updates to Boards and committees
• Build and maintain external networks with peer organisations and industry groups to bring insight and inform approach
• Own the end‑to‑end engagement survey process
• Work closely with HR Business Partners to embed local engagement insights and support effective action planning

HRBP Support

• Coach and support managers and leaders through organisational change, reward, resource planning, employee relations and people strategy execution
• Act as a trusted advisor, combining strategic thinking with delivery focus

People Strategy Oversight

• Partner with the HR Leadership Team (HRLT) to monitor delivery of the People Strategy, ensuring clear visibility of progress across key priorities
• Maintain a clear view of delivery against plan, including key milestones, risks, and dependencies

Continuous Improvement & External Insight

• Proactively identify and lead opportunities to improve people processes, frameworks and colleague experience
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the People Strategy, ensuring it reflects both internal insight and external best practice

About you

• Strong HRBP experience with the ability to operate strategically and operationally
• Experience within a regulated financial services environment
• Proven experience in project/programme delivery within HR
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability
• Analytical mindset, using data to inform decisions and prioritisation
• Comfortable operating in a flexible, non‑aligned, enterprise‑wide role

How we will reward you

• Great starting salary
• Generous annual leave package
• Access to a high quality pension scheme provided through Universities Superannuation Scheme
• Supportive people policies (including enhanced occupational sickness pay and family friendly pay)
• Financial contributions towards your personal development to help you maintain your physical and mental wellbeing
• Access to a range of health and wellbeing services i.e., private healthcare, discounted gym membership
• Learning and development opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and talent
• Employee Volunteer Day’s to support the communities where you work and live
• Cycle to Work Scheme

USSL is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strive to ensure our recruitment process is as flexible and inclusive as possible so we can attract diverse candidates and recruit the best talent. We want all candidates to perform at their best during the recruitment process, so if you need any reasonable adjustments or if there is anything we can do to help support you through your recruitment journey please let us know by contacting resourcing@uss.co.uk.