Regional People Partner Sussex & Kent
£48,000 – £50,000 + Car Allowance + Excellent Benefits
Full time | 4 days on-site, 1 day remote
Are you an experienced HR professional who thrives in a varied, people-focused role? Alexander Lloyd are supporting a major employer in the engineering sector as they look for a proactive People Partner to join their team covering sites across Sussex and Kent.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll build strong relationships with managers, drive positive employee relations, and help shape an engaging and supportive workplace culture.
About the Role
As a People Partner, you will play a key role in enabling managers to lead confidently and ensuring employees are supported throughout their journey with the business. You’ll act as a trusted advisor across your region, handling a range of employee relations matters while also contributing to wider People initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage ER cases including disciplinaries, grievances, absence, and performance.
* Provide expert advice on People policies, employment law, and best practice.
* Deliver training, coaching, and capability building for managers.
* Support organisational change programmes such as restructures and redundancy processes.
* Conduct performance reviews with apprentices and identify development needs.
* Maintain accurate people data and support reporting for the wider People team.
* Work closely with Senior People Partners to deliver strategic People projects.
What You’ll Bring
* Experience in a People Partner, HR Advisor, or ER Specialist role.
* Trade unions experience preferred.
* Strong working knowledge of UK employment law.
* Confident dealing with complex ER matters end-to-end.
* Ability to influence, coach, and build relationships at all levels.
* Experience supporting organisational change or restructuring activity.
* Strong communication, problem solving, and stakeholder management skills.
* CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience is preferred.
Benefits
* Competitive salary (£48k-50k depending on experience)
* Car allowance
* Bonus scheme
* BUPA medical cover
* Competitive pension
* Enhanced family leave
* Life assurance
* Holiday trading scheme
* Cycle to Work and more
Who This Role Suits
This is ideal for someone who enjoys autonomy, variety, and visibility all while making a real impact on people, culture, and manager capability. If you’re resilient, commercially aware, and thrive in a fast-paced operational environment, this could be a great next step.
Interested?
If you’re passionate about developing people, improving workplace culture, and building strong employee relationships, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and find out more about the opportunity.
Please quote 52282 when calling Simon at Alexander Lloyd or email them at sge@alexanderlloyd.co.uk. This is only one of many vacancies we are handling, Alexander Lloyd Human Resources Recruitment Solutions is the leading recruiter for HR Director, Manager, Business Partner, Learning & Development, Internal Communications, Talent Acquisition and Reward opportunities across Surrey, Sussex, Kent and London.
Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants you have not been shortlisted for this role. Please continue to check our website www.alexanderlloyd.co.uk for any other roles which may be of interest.