Senior HR Business Partner
Band: 5
Salary: £59,877 - £66,869
Location: Liverpool/Norwich/Newport/Birmingham
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time
Closing Date: 29/06/2026
This role acts as the strategic people link between HR and your assigned business directorate(s), providing the insight necessary to drive the people strategy to meet GCA objectives. It includes acting as a "critical friend" and coach to senior leadership teams.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Partnering: Partner with executive and senior management to ensure department goals are backed by the right talent and capability, and translate business objectives into functional people plans that deliver measurable business impact.
- Solving: Provide strategic input on people topics and develop pragmatic solutions for complex people challenges.
- Connecting: Design or commission large‑scale projects led by HR centres of expertise, helping the organisation draw on appropriate centres and shared service support.
- Coaching: Empower leaders to navigate ambiguity, develop capability and sustain transformational change.
- Lead specific people projects including workforce planning, talent management, complex employee relations and organisational design to drive commercial value.
- Commit to a minimum of 2 days per week in a GCA office, with ad‑hoc travel to other GCA locations as required.
Essential Criteria
- CIPD Level 7 accreditation (or equivalent experience) or a committed willingness to work toward it.
- Proven track record of driving high‑impact people initiatives and leading complex change programmes.
- Ability to interpret workforce analytics to inform and validate strategic decision‑making.
- Expert coaching skills with the ability to influence senior leaders across all HR domains.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills to build credibility and influence at the most senior levels with internal and external stakeholders.
Behaviours
- Leadership
- Changing and improving
- Making effective decisions
- Communicating and influencing
- Working together
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous pension scheme
- Discretionary non‑contractual performance related bonus
- Remote working option in addition to office location
- Flexi‑time scheme (available for B1‑B6)
- Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum of 30 days excluding bank holidays
