Global People Business Partner (Shared Services)
Location: Bristol or Edinburgh (Hybrid)
In this position, you'll be based in the Bristol or Edinburgh office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week.
We give you a world of potential
Computershare is evolving — and we're looking for a Global People Business Partner who can help shape what comes next across Shared Services.
As a key member of our leadership team, you'll bring a strategic, forward‑thinking People lens to every major business decision. You'll influence the direction of our global organisation, champion a modern People agenda, and help us create an environment where our people can thrive.
The Business Partnering Team
We operate as one global People team, we are committed to delivering an exceptional experience to applicants, candidates, employees, managers, and other stakeholders.
The Business Partnering Team drives an excellent employee experience and provides a key point of contact for Business Unit Heads for strategic support to shape their People agenda globally. The team requires dedicated, driven and talented individuals to live, breathe and embody the People team's vision in executing their strategic role.
A role you will love
The Global People Business Partner will be an integral part of the senior leadership team for our Global CEOs as they transform their Shared Services function.
This is a great opportunity for a strategic minded candidate to lead an exciting People agenda, breaking new ground on a daily basis and driving the standards for attracting, managing, rewarding and supporting Computershare's people.
Key Responsibilities
* Act as trusted advisor to the Function heads and their leadership teams, providing coaching and guidance on a range of sensitive people/commercial issues, including development of key leaders identified in the succession plan
* Lead the design of the people strategy needed to support the strategic aims of the function aligned to the global Computershare people strategy
* Share the function strategy and priorities with the People team Centers of Excellence to enable effective planning and delivery to business units.
* Key conduit between the business unit and the wider People team, ensuring key people projects are supported, represented and delivered.
* Be part of or lead programs of work to support the delivery of people initiatives, utilizing project management knowledge
* Proactively drive improvements to business performance by providing expertise on organisational design and change
* Leverage workforce insights and analytics in order to focus the business's leaders on relevant People issues while assessing potential strategies and solutions that promote talent, development and succession plans
* Oversee and create solutions to mitigate people risks
* Champion Computershare's culture, values and ways of working, employees and locations, promoting an inclusive workplace
* Actively engage in the Business Partner development programs with a continuous learning mindset to upskill on the latest thinking.
* Responsible for the oversight of other business partners
Key skills you will bring to the role
* Experience as a Business Partner who has previously held a senior leadership role for a sizeable commercial organisation, ideally with a Global remit
* Significant experience in organisational design principles and delivery of large-scale people change program. Post-acquisition/merger integration experience would be an advantage
* Demonstrable experience in partnering and coaching leaders in all facets of People management as well as developing and coaching them to reach their potential
* Ability to develop strong trust based relationships at very senior levels, through strong presence, gravitas, interpersonal and influencing skills
* Ability to work within remote and hybrid teams and to account manage service delivery into a business unit
* Effective working at both strategic and operational level with strong commercial acumen
* Strong ethics and values with strong alignment to Computershare culture
* Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to articulate information clearly and concisely
* Experience of working effectively with senior leaders and colleagues across multiple locations and time zones.
* Multi-site/legal jurisdictional experience is preferred due to our highly distributed workforce
Education and Experience
* A Bachelor's or Master's degree level qualification or significant work experience.
Rewards designed for you
* Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle
* Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family
* Invest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you'll receive a company contribution as well.
* Extra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future
* And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our careers hub will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit
A company to be proud of
We're a global leader in financial administration with over 11,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.
Fairness and culture
We're dedicated to providing you with the opportunity to succeed on your own merits, starting from the application process and continuing throughout your career with us. Our goal is to create an environment where everyone feels valued, to remove barriers and obstacles and ensure equal opportunities for all. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit for further information.
Our Shared Services teams support all of our business lines behind the scenes. Across the world, we have a range of specialisms that ensure the delivery of our business priorities. These include Technology, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Audit, Governance, Marketing and Communications as well as our People team. Join our strategic team and help us look after everything from creating an amazing end to end employee journey to keeping our systems safe. You'll be looking after our people, our clients and their customers, whilst maintaining our exceptional standards around the globe.