Role: HR Business Partner
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: London Marylebone
Salary: Up to 55,000 per annum
Closing Date: Tuesday 17th February 2026
Job Purpose
The HR Business Partner acts as a trusted advisor to leaders, supporting the delivery of business plans through effective people strategies. The role strengthens leadership capability, drives workforce planning, supports organisational performance, and champions a fair, respectful and inclusive culture. Working closely with managers, the HRBP provides expert guidance across the employee lifecycle, ensuring a consistent, high:quality HR service that aligns with organisational values and strategic priorities.
Key Accountabilities
Strategic Partnering and Leadership Support
Strengthen leadership capability through tailored coaching, guidance and support. Build strong, collaborative relationships with senior managers to understand business needs and provide insights that shape people plans. Influence decision:making by presenting well:evidenced recommendations on workforce, culture and organisational design.
Workforce Planning, Talent and Succession
Improve workforce planning through data:driven insights on roles, capacity, skills and future needs. Facilitate talent mapping and succession planning discussions, identifying capability gaps and development requirements. Partner with Learning and Development to design interventions that build long:term organisational capability.
Performance, Culture and Team Effectiveness
Support managers in building high:performing teams, using clear performance expectations and effective feedback practices. Work in partnership with managers to drive engagement and enhance colleague experience, reviewing and acting on survey feedback and other colleague feedback. Provide guidance on addressing underperformance, ensuring fair, consistent and timely action. Promote a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration and accountability.
Employee Relations and Organisational Change
Lead the people aspects of change programmes, restructures and workforce transitions, ensuring compliance with policy and legislation. Oversee complex employee relations matters in partnership with the Senior ER Manager in a balanced, solution:focused and legally compliant manner. Support consultation processes, risk assessments, communication plans and implementation steps.
Inclusion, Fairness and Employee Experience
Champion fairness, respect and inclusion in business unit decision:making, policies and everyday behaviours. Act as a role model for inclusive leadership, ensuring diverse perspectives inform choices and outcomes. Work with leaders to create an environment where colleagues feel valued, respected and able to thrive.
General HR Responsibilities
Provide expert advice on HR policies, processes and best practice. Use data and analytics to identify trends, risks and opportunities, informing proactive interventions. Support recruitment decision:making and organisational design initiatives. Ensure accurate, timely reporting and compliance with employment law and internal governance.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Proven experience in a strategic HR Business Partner role. Strong understanding of UK employment legislation and HR best practice. Experience supporting organisational change, restructures or transformation programmes. Experience of and understanding of working in a highly unionised environment
Skills and Behaviours
Demonstrated ability to coach and influence leaders. Skilled in workforce planning, talent development and succession management. Excellent communication, relationship:building and problem:solving skills. Commitment to fairness, respect, inclusion and high ethical standards. Ability to use data and insight to inform decisions and drive action.