Closing Date
2025-10-14
Senior HR Business Partner – Waste
Location: Worthing
Permanent – 37 hours per week
Competitive Salary + Excellent Benefits
Southern Water is transforming — and we’re looking for a dynamic, strategic Senior HR Business Partner to help lead that change from the inside out.
As a Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders within the Waste directorate, driving leadership impact, team performance, and delivery of the People Plan. You’ll play a pivotal role in shaping our culture, strengthening succession and skills, and embedding accountability across the organisation.
This is a high-profile role for someone who thrives on influence, insight, and impact.
1. Strategic Partnering: Collaborate with senior leaders to deliver the People Plan, ensuring alignment with business goals and performance metrics.
2. Performance Alignment: Ensure people priorities directly support delivery of safety, service, and cost outcomes.
3. Workforce Planning: Own the strategic workforce plan for your area, developing buy/build strategies to ensure the right talent is in place — at the right time and cost.
4. Leadership Coaching: Challenge and support leaders to raise capability, role-model expectations, and embed leadership standards.
5. Team Effectiveness: Drive team performance through targeted interventions and development strategies.
6. Culture Activation: Lead cultural change programmes, embedding frameworks and enabling new ways of working.
7. Risk Anticipation: Identify workforce risks, succession gaps, and future skills needs — and work with Talent and OE to address them.
8. Succession Strengthening: Ensure robust pipelines are in place for critical roles.
9. Change Enablement: Guide leaders through organisational change, providing practical solutions that support transformation.
10. People Team Integration: Represent the full People Team offer in the business, connecting leaders and colleagues with expertise in talent, reward, capability, OE, and safety.
11. Insight-Driven Decisions: Use people data and analytics to anticipate risks, track progress, and influence leadership decisions.
To be considered for this role you will be a strategic influencer with deep experience in partnering with senior leaders. You will bring a sharp understanding of organisational dynamics, a proactive mindset, and a passion for unlocking leadership potential. You will be confident navigating complexity, driving change, and delivering measurable impact.
We’re more than a utility — we’re a purpose-led organisation committed to sustainability, innovation, and community impact. Join us and help shape a high-performing, future-ready workforce that delivers for our customers and our environment.