Senior HR Business Partner

Are you ready to steer complex change and keep people at the heart of it?

We’re entering a pivotal year of growth and transformation, with cross‑business programmes that need senior HR leadership and momentum. As our new Senior HR Business Partner (12‑month FTC), you’ll operate flexibly across sectors, partnering with HR Directors, Business Partners, and our Centres of Excellence (including HR Change and HR Operations), to lead high‑priority people projects, remove blockers, and keep delivery on track.

This role isn’t tied to a single area. You’ll go where the impact is highest: shaping strategy, rolling up your sleeves on execution, and making sure change lands well for our colleagues and leaders.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities.

This role is hybrid, with some travel to our UK offices, depending on the area of the business that you are supporting.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead and take ownership of agreed sector‑wide people programmes, ensuring they progress at pace.
• Build strong, independent relationships with senior stakeholders to influence direction and decision‑making.
• Act as a key link between HR and the business, ensuring aligned priorities and smooth collaboration.
• Plan and deliver sector‑level change initiatives, ensuring effective coordination and execution.
• Provide senior‑level project and change‑focused HR business partnering across complex organisational activity.
• Deliver complex HR and organisational initiatives that strengthen growth, capability, and overall organisational effectiveness.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner within a complex, matrixed or professional services environment.
• Demonstrable background in supporting and delivering change programmes, including large‑scale transformation and business‑wide initiatives.

Strong organisational design expertise, with experience shaping structures, roles and capabilities to meet evolving business needs.

Hands‑on experience managing restructures, consultation activity and workforce transitions in a pragmatic and commercially aware way.

Comfortable providing strategic and operational HR generalist support, advising senior stakeholders and influencing at pace.

Ideally CIPD‑qualified with up‑to‑date knowledge of HR best practice and the ability to apply it in a fast‑moving environment.

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract – 12 months, ideally starting in April

Location: Anywhere

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Amy

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Our business is, first and foremost, about people. And it always has been. The solutions we develop are driven by the connections they make and the problems they solve. Our services only matter if they work for people and if they serve a greater purpose. Known for our collaborative approach, we provide consulting and digital services, creating innovative solutions, at scale, to deliver sustainable growth and services that make life better.

Our work touches many lives in the UK. From helping the Government provide essential public and health services that offer more convenience and choice, to improving financial services to deliver fairer, customer-centric solutions.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value.
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We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.