Senior People Business Partner - Hybrid (2 days per week in office)
Salary: £60,000-£63,000
Location: Milton Keynes
Recruiting exclusively through Robert Half
A strategic Senior People Business Partner role, partnering closely with senior leaders to shape and drive people-focused initiatives across the organisation. You will play a key role in workforce planning, organisational design, talent development, culture change and leadership capability. This is a high-impact position ideal for an experienced HR Business Partner looking to step into a more strategic, influential role.
Key Responsibilities
* Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and act as a strategic advisor on workforce planning, organisation design, and people-related challenges.
* Align People strategies with business goals, ensuring HR initiatives deliver measurable value.
* Support leaders in navigating organisational change, restructures, and cultural transformation.
* Act as Deputy to the Head of People Experience when required.
* Coach and mentor People team members, helping build capability and fostering a high-performance culture.
* Assist with onboarding of new team members and support leadership development initiatives.
* Promote a coaching, feedback-driven culture across the People Experience team.
* Use workforce analytics to identify trends, inform strategic decisions, and measure HR effectiveness.
* Drive continuous improvement across People processes to ensure high-quality, compliant, and efficient service delivery.
* Collaborate with Talent Acquisition and L&D teams on integrated HR solutions.
* Lead Wellbeing, Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and support employee community groups.
Transformation & Organisational Change
* Develop and deliver change management strategies to support organisational transformation.
* Lead succession planning, capability mapping, and analysis of critical roles.
* Support organisational structure reviews, job design, and workforce forecasting.
* Ensure restructures and people changes are legally compliant and effectively delivered.
Collaboration & Relationship Management
* Partner with cross-functional teams including Operations, Finance, Commercial and Technical.
* Provide guidance on performance, career development, absence, and employee engagement.
* Represent the People team in senior meetings and collaborative projects.
About You
* CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent experience).
* Significant experience in a HR Business Partner or Senior HRBP role.
* Strong background in organisational change, culture transformation and strategic people planning.
* Commercially minded with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
* Highly analytical, with strong HRIS and Excel capability.
* Skilled coach, mentor and confident communicator.
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