Overview
Salary: £80,000–£90,000 per annum (circa dependent on skills and experience)
Benefits: Private healthcare, virtual GP service for you and your household, double-matched pension (up to 18% combined)
Location: Huntingdon / Hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full time (flexibility for part time working)
The Opportunity
As a Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering strategic people initiatives that align with our values while enabling commercial success. You’ll partner one of our major business areas — Water Services, Water Recycling Services, or Customer, Operational & Enterprise Services — acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders. You will lead through a multi-year period of organisational transformation and capability evolution. The scale is significant, the complexity is high, and the impact is real. Working at the heart of strategic decision-making, you’ll help shape the experience of thousands of colleagues while strengthening organisational performance. This role calls for credibility, calm judgement and enterprise thinking. You’ll be ready to influence beyond a single directorate, balancing strategic insight, commercial thinking and exceptional people leadership, while fostering a nurturing, inclusive and values-led workplace.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Provide outstanding HR business partnering to senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and critical friend
* Shape people strategy across transformation, ensuring alignment to business objectives and organisational values
* Lead strategic workforce planning, organisation design, talent, succession, engagement and cultural change
* Build leadership and partnering capability, enabling leaders and HR colleagues to confidently manage change and performance
* Use insight, data and commercial understanding to drive informed decisions and sustainable outcomes
* Work across Employee Relations, Reward, Strategic People Development, Workforce Planning and Shared Services to deliver joined-up, high-quality outcomes
Within the first 12–18 months, you’ll be known for
* Bringing confidence and clarity in complexity, quickly building credibility with senior leaders
* Leading change that is well managed, lawful and people-centred
* Operating at enterprise level, shaping solutions that strengthen Anglian Water as a whole
* Raising the bar for HR Business Partnering through coaching, consistency and impact
* Balancing cost, risk and delivery with genuine care for people
What We’re Looking For
* Proven experience partnering senior leaders in large, complex or operational organisations
* Confidence operating in high-risk, high-change environments
* Strong judgement, composure and the ability to influence without relying on authority
* A dynamic, curious and proactive approach, with the ability to build trusted relationships at all levels
* A genuine commitment to creating inclusive cultures where people can thrive
Qualifications & Experience
* Educated to degree level or equivalent in an HR-related discipline
* CIPD qualified (or equivalent professional experience)
* Evidence of ongoing commitment to Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
* Full UK Driving Licence
Why Join Us
Our customers come from all walks of life, and we want our teams to reflect that. We’re committed to building a workplace where everyone feels seen, supported and empowered to succeed. We proudly support:
* The Social Mobility Pledge
* Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter
* Armed Forces Covenant (Gold)
* Disability Confident Employer
* The Women’s Utility Network
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