HR Business Partner -

About The Role

SALARY: Up to £69,000 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed Term until 31/05/2027 - The role is 35 hours however part time candidates will be considered

CLOSING DATE: 15/02/2026 We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of applications.

We’re looking for a HR Business Partner to join our high performing HR Ops team and partner with senior leaders as we build and launch our new retail savings bank function. This high impact and specialist role will be instrumental in delivering a blend of strategic and operational advice to our business from supporting organisational design concepts, policy set up, INED and other key role recruitment, supporting key stakeholders and generally being a change agent as we move from planning to approval to launch.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working directly with subject matter experts, finance senior leaders and INED designates to deliver the people workstream of the programme
• Supporting creation of job descriptions and ensuring solid people and OD principles are observed
• Owning the people activities with the nominated leaders and ensuring that we meet key People plan milestones
• Support people leaders with complex ER case management and guidance
• Working closely with our Employee Relations (ER) & HR Compliance Manager to coach and guide our people managers to effectively manage all employee relations matters and formal casework, ensuring consistency and fairness of approach across the organisation.

Your advice will deliver a positive outcome for the business, whilst observing employment legislation, upholding our Company values and identifying and minimising risk.

What you’ll bring:

• You’ll be an experienced people professional with a clear understanding of how great people practice supports business and contributes to the wider organisational goals.
• You’ll bring enthusiasm and high energy to deliver but with an eye on pragmatic people solutions in a highly complex and regulated business.
• You’ll have a passion for influencing business leaders in areas such as succession planning, people development, talent and succession management, performance and reward cycles and organisational change, leaning on our HR centres of excellence for support when needed.

Essential experience & skills:

• Demonstrable experience of people partnering in a complex or regulated organisation
• Ability to positively influence senior leaders and stakeholders especially where there are conflicting priorities to deliver win-win solutions
• Ideally have experience supporting set up of a new organisational function from concept through to launch and into BAU
• Ability to manage competing priorities and workload in a constantly evolving landscape
• Ability to develop and maintain strong and credible working relationships built on trust and the ability to challenge in an environment that encourages you to speak up
• Think strategically and creatively when it comes to problem solving, identifying pragmatic and measured solutions that put employees and managers at the heart of everything

What’s in it for you?

• Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
• Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
• Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
• Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
• Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
• We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You’ll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn’t just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.