People Business Partner

Overview

As a senior People Business Partner, you will deliver pragmatic HR solutions across the full employee lifecycle and act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders. You translate business priorities into people plans that boost performance, engagement and organisational effectiveness in a complex, matrixed environment. You will manage Employee Relations cases under UK law and use data-driven insight to drive outcomes. This hybrid role combines business partnering, change support, and strategic People initiatives.

Pay / Benefits

• multicultural environment
• career progression opportunities
• hybrid working model
• regular London office presence
• international exposure
• dynamic team driving energy transition

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior and operational leaders to develop and deliver people plans aligned to business priorities
• Manage your own Employee Relations caseload with practical UK employment law guidance
• Support organisational change, workforce planning, utilization and capacity activities
• Use people data and KPIs to identify trends, risks and opportunities and turn insights into actions
• Navigate complex governance and stakeholder priorities to drive decisions and outcomes
• Contribute to policy development, process improvements and strategic People initiatives
• Embrace AI and technology-enabled working to improve efficiency and quality of People solutions
• Collaborate with the wider People Team and Business Unit Director to ensure consistent HR service

Key requirements

• Senior HR or People Business Partner experience in a large, complex, matrixed organisation
• Strong generalist HR background with independent Employee Relations case management and knowledge of UK employment law
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate competing priorities
• Experience translating business challenges into people plans with measurable impact
• Strong analytical capability using people data for decision making
• Confident communicator with digital fluency and openness to AI-enabled tools
• Experience in international environments; French language capability advantageous

• relationship-building
• influencing and challenging senior stakeholders
• analytical thinking
• data analysis with people metrics
• experience with AI-enabled tools or platforms
• UK employment law application

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