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Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Location: Leicestershire
Salary: £45-65,000 + great corporate benefits + career opportunities
Are you a dynamic HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment? We are looking for an experienced Senior HRBP to join our clients growing team and partner with leaders across a large national business unit. This role is critical to supporting Senior Management in driving engagement, talent development, and organisational growth.
Our Client challenges the usual and always pushes beyond the expected. They are building a culture that is their competitive advantage - one that is growth focused, change resilient, collaborative, innovative, dynamic, diverse and inclusive. The chosen candidate will be an innovator and creative thinker, who can observe and analyse situations and find new ways to drive actions and empower the workforce.
You’ll coach and mentor leaders. You’ll create and implement ambitious people strategies. You’ll play an important leadership role in diversity & inclusion efforts. You’ll work collaboratively with HR business partners and Centres of Excellence to deliver solutions that propel the business forward.
Here’s what will make you successful! We are seeking that are passionate, courageous HR leaders who work with agility and are excited by new challenges. You’ll need consulting and influencing skills, a team-first, entrepreneurial spirit, business insight and analytical capability, and a heart for supporting the needs of our Clients employees.
What You’ll Do
- Partner with Leaders: Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, providing coaching, influencing decisions, and driving impactful outcomes.
- Operational Implementation: Lead and execute key HR initiatives such as talent conversations, engagement planning, organisational design, and facilitating internal career moves.
- Drive New Programs: Play a central role in building and implementing programs such as Great Place to Work, apprenticeships, and governance for organisational design.
- Hands-On Design: As part of a lean HR team, you’ll step into areas like engagement, culture, and DEI where templates may not yet exist—taking concepts and turning them into actionable solutions.
- Data-Driven Decision Making: Analyse HR data to generate insights that improve processes and create measurable value.
- Be Curious & Add Value: Dig deep to understand challenges (e.g., attrition, culture), connect the dots across the business, and propose solutions that make a difference.
- Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with a supportive HR team that values teamwork and knowledge-sharing. Lone rangers won’t thrive here— our client believes in their HR team lifting each other up.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience as a Senior HRBP; this is not your first rodeo—you understand what true HR partnering looks like.
- Degree educated alongside an MSc in Human Resources, related field or professional experience equivalent
- Proven bias for action as evidenced through proactive, innovative and value-creating solution implementation
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity within a complex, dynamic and rapidly changing business environment
- Proven ability to seamlessly transition between strategic thinking and tactical execution
- Proven ability to prioritise the most impactful work amidst multiple competing priorities
- Success in creating & driving effective and positive employee and relations for large populations of employees
- Success in leading and managing projects, some of which may be large-scale, cross-functional, and require strong stakeholder management and alignment
- Successful experience of enabling business change working with business leaders to drive proactive People and Culture Strategy in support of business objectives.
- Org Design/Change Management experience leading business partners through the end-to-end process of designing a new organisation or significantly changing an existing organisation; leveraging strategies and tools to help individuals and teams adapt to change in their organisation
- Demonstrable experience in developing and executing your own strategies and ideas.
- Experience working with customer-facing teams, ideally across multi-site operations (retail or hospitality experience is helpful but not essential).
- A proactive, hands-on mindset—comfortable with both strategy and execution.
- Strong relationship-building, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- A curious, data-savvy mindset—you’re not afraid to ask “why” and use data to drive better decisions.
- Ability to design and implement solutions from scratch—we’re building new programs, and you’ll be a key player in making them happen.
Why Join?
- Work in a collaborative and supportive HR team where innovation, teamwork, and curiosity are valued.
- Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization.
- Have the opportunity to influence and deliver meaningful HR programs in a growing business.
If you’re ready to drive real impact, bring ideas to life, and connect the dots to make things better, we want to hear from you.
To apply please email your CV
