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Global Strategic People Business Partner

Newcastle upon Tyne
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Job Description

The Strategic People Business Partner is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of a fast-paced, evolving GTM organisation, driving delivery against ambitious commercial, customer, and efficiency goals. As part of the GTM Operations team—bringing together Commercial Operations, Customer Operations, and GTM Effectiveness, including technology and sales enablement—you’ll operate within a unified, high-impact structure designed to scale with pace and discipline. Acting as the senior People partner to this function, you’ll work closely with leaders to shape the organisation, build leadership capability, and ensure strategic priorities are delivered through effective workforce planning, strong execution, and seamless cross-functional collaboration.

This is a hybrid role - based out of our Cobalt office 3 days per week.

Key Responsibilities

What will you be doing?

This is a highly influential role where you’ll shape and lead the People strategy for a fast-moving GTM Operations function, ensuring it directly enables commercial, customer, and efficiency outcomes at scale. Partnering with senior leaders across Commercial Operations, Customer Operations, and GTM Effectiveness, you’ll translate business priorities and performance insights into clear, impactful people interventions with measurable results. You’ll play a critical role in driving organisational health and performance through thoughtful workforce planning, organisation design, succession, and talent strategies. Owning the end-to-end People plan, you’ll ensure strong delivery across leadership effectiveness, engagement, change, and risk management. You’ll also coach and challenge leaders to make high-quality decisions, oversee senior hiring in partnership with Talent Acquisition, and work closely with Centres of Expertise and regional teams to deliver consistent, high-impact outcomes—while maintaining strong oversight of people risk, compliance, and business continuity.

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You bring significant experience partnering with senior executives in complex, global organisations, acting as a trusted advisor on high-impact people decisions. You’re confident influencing, coaching, and constructively challenging senior leaders, driving accountability and stronger outcomes across the people agenda. With deep expertise in organisation design, workforce planning, talent, and succession, you have a proven track record of delivering measurable business impact. Commercially astute, you translate business performance and market insight into clear, practical people actions. You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, leading complex change with focus and discipline, and delivering results through others. A strong communicator, you build credibility quickly and align senior stakeholders across a global matrix. Your cultural fluency enables you to balance regional nuance with enterprise consistency, while maintaining sharp judgement and accountability for outcomes.

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What's in it for you?

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
  • On-going training and professional development
  • Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
  • Flexible work patterns and hybrid working
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Skills

Strategic People Partnering
Organisation Design
Workforce Planning
Talent Strategy
Succession Planning
Executive Coaching
Change Management
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management
Compliance
Global Matrix Management
Leadership Development

Location

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

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