Senior HR Business Partner

Shape the Future with the National Wealth Fund

At the National Wealth Fund, our mission is to swiftly and effectively mobilise trusted sector insights and investment expertise to unlock billions in private finance for projects across the United Kingdom. Providing £27.8bn of capital and an expanded mandate, we are ready to help the market invest with confidence, continue to drive forward the Government's growth ambitions.

We are looking for skilled and results oriented individuals who are motivated to help us build the National Wealth Fund into an industry-leading institution.

Job Purpose

Recruitment Process:

We are delighted to be partnering with search experts Michael Page on this appointment.

Please Note: While applications can be submitted through the National Wealth Fund careers site, you are encouraged to engage with Michael Page. All applications will be managed by Michael Page directly, who will act as the sole primary point of contact throughout this recruitment process

The Senior HR Business Partner is a pivotal member of the HR senior leadership team, providing high-impact strategic partnering to the Executive and senior leaders across the Fund. This is an exciting opportunity for a progressive, ambitious and forward-thinking HR professional to help shape how people strategy is delivered in a young, fast-evolving organisation.

Primarily, the successful candidate will partner closely with senior stakeholders, including Executive colleagues and third parties, to influence, challenge, coach and build constructive relationships that drive delivery of the Fund’s People Strategy and Business Plan. The role offers significant scope to make a personal mark by shaping practical, modern people solutions that support the organisation as it grows and matures.

As well as line managing a HR Business Partner, the Senior HR Business Partner will lead on people change, transformation, strategic people projects and organisation design. They will have the opportunity to build momentum, introduce fresh thinking and help create scalable people practices that enable the National Wealth Fund’s future success.

Location: Hybrid working with a minimum of 3 days per week in the Leeds office

Deadline to Apply: 6th September 2026. Early submission is encouraged, and applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.

Core Responsibilities:

• Develop and nurture credible and trusted partnering relationships with Executive and senior leaders across the National Wealth Fund building high levels of professional credibility and mutual trust.

• Work alongside the HR senior leadership team to develop, evolve and deliver a progressive People Strategy that anticipates organisational needs and supports the National Wealth Fund as a young, ambitious organisation with significant opportunity ahead.

• Support, coach and advise senior management on organisational, talent and people priorities; enabling leaders to make confident, inclusive and forward-looking decisions and embedding a culture of continuous growth, performance and development.

• Lead the delivery of complex and high-profile people change initiatives across the Fund, including employee relations, organisational design and transformation change, bringing pace, structure and creativity to implementation while building strong collaboration across business leaders, programme leads and people services.

• Build people management capability within stakeholder groups through effectively embedding leadership and development initiatives, visibly championing the Fund’s behaviours, culture, diversity and inclusion initiatives, promoting self-service and coaching senior leaders.

• Lead and proactively manage employee relations cases, delegating casework to the HR Business Partner as appropriate, identify trends and mitigate risk to the Fund whilst supporting Executive and Senior Managers through complex case work and employee relations matters.

• Lead, motivate and engage the HR Business Partners, manage performance and development, providing expertise, coaching, and ensuring the delivery of a high-quality service to support the delivery of the Fund’s strategic objectives. Ensuring evaluation and continuous improvement of partnering service and interventions to ensure they are effective, affordable and add value.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in a senior HR role, operating at a senior level within complex Financial or Professional Services or comparable environments, with the confidence, judgement and ambition to influence across functions, systems, processes and organisational challenges.

• Substantial depth and range of understanding and experience of professional strategic and tactical issues in a complex context.

• A progressive and forward-thinking approach, with demonstrable experience of shaping organisational and functional thinking through horizon scanning, innovation, curiosity and pragmatic solutions that create lasting impact.

• Strong collaboration skills and experience of influencing senior and challenging stakeholders and decision makers.

• Significant experience of coaching and influencing peers and senior decision makers in ambiguous and challenging decisions, including experience of offering challenge and holding others to account for decision making and strong problem-solving ability.

A career with us offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact and work on cutting-edge technologies that will drive the UK’s future. We value diversity in our people and inclusion is at the heart of what we do.

We offer competitive benefits and unique learning opportunities from combining both private and public sector skills and experience. Please note, referencing and background checks are carried out for all roles here at the National Wealth Fund.