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HR Business Partner
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Are you an ambitious HR Business Partner who thrives in fast-paced, high-performance environments?
Do you enjoy partnering with senior leaders, driving organisational change, and building people strategies that directly impact business performance?
Hays are delighted to be partnering with a highly successful, innovative, and technically focused organisation. They are seeking a commercially minded People Business Partner to join their People team and play a pivotal role in shaping workforce strategy, leadership capability, organisational effectiveness, and employee performance. This is an opportunity to work within a demanding, ambitious, and evolving environment where agility, resilience, and a solutions-focused approach are essential. The successful individual will be comfortable challenging constructively, influencing senior stakeholders, and helping leaders navigate rapid growth, change, and transformation.
As a People Business Partner, you will act as a trusted advisor to leadership teams, translating business objectives into practical people strategies that enhance capability, engagement, and performance across the organisation. You will work closely with senior stakeholders to deliver workforce planning initiatives, talent strategies, succession planning, organisational design projects, and leadership development programmes, whilst ensuring people decisions are informed by data and commercial insight. This role would suit someone who enjoys operating at both strategic and operational levels and is energized by working in an environment where priorities move quickly, and continuous improvement is expected.
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Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business leaders to develop and implement people strategies aligned to commercial objectives
- Advise, coach, and influence managers to strengthen management capabilities, facilitating a high-performance culture
- Partner with business leaders to identify skills and capability gaps, creating effective workforce planning processes
- Support strategic people and succession planning, including capability development, working closely with Talent Management
- Use people data and analytics to guide commercial people decisions and organisational design
- Partner with Talent Acquisition teams to support hiring plans and future talent pipelines
- Drive employee engagement initiatives and support a high-performance culture
- Advise managers on complex employee relations matters
- Work collaboratively with specialist HR teams to deliver an exceptional employee experience across Talent Acquisition and Employee Relations
- Provide challenge, insight, and guidance to senior stakeholders guiding decisions relating to your business area
About You
We're looking for an experienced HR Business Partner who combines strong commercial awareness with excellent stakeholder management skills. You will likely have gained experience within engineering, technology, STEM, manufacturing, scientific, research-led, or other specialist commercial environments where pace, complexity, and business change are commonplace.
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We are particularly interested in hearing from individuals who have:
- Proven HR Business Partner experience supporting senior stakeholders in specialist fields
- Experience within fast-paced, high-growth, or performance-driven organisations
- Strong organisational change and transformation experience
- Workforce planning, talent management, and succession planning expertise
- Excellent coaching and influencing skills
- Experience using people analytics to inform decision-making
- Confidence operating in complex, evolving environments
- CIPD Level 5 or equivalent experience
If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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