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Interim Lead HR Business Partner
Job Type: 6-Month Fixed Term Contract
Salary: To be discussed
Location: South West based with occasional travel as required
Hybrid: 1-2 days working from home.
This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded HR professional who enjoys operating at both a strategic and hands-on level. You'll provide senior HR leadership across the business while acting as the overarching manager for the HR Business Partner team, ensuring consistency, quality, and confidence across the function.
This role would suit someone who naturally coaches, mentors, and develops others, whilst partnering with senior stakeholders to deliver pragmatic, commercially focused people solutions.
The Opportunity
As the Interim Senior / Lead HR Business Partner, you'll be the senior HRBP within the team, providing leadership, direction, and support across a broad people agenda. You'll work closely with Partners and senior leaders on complex people matters while developing the capability of the wider HR team.
Alongside managing your own stakeholder group, you'll act as the escalation point for complex employee relations issues, provide guidance on organizational change, and ensure the HRBP team is delivering a consistent, high-quality service.
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Key Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and coach the HR Business Partner team, providing day-to-day leadership, guidance, and support.
- Act as the senior point of contact and escalation for complex employee relations and people matters.
- Partner with Partners and senior leaders to provide commercial HR advice across organizational design, performance, succession planning, talent, and change.
- Support and guide the team through restructures, consultations, organizational change, and TUPE activity where required.
- Drive consistency, best practice, and high standards across the HR Business Partner function.
- Develop the capability and confidence of the HR team through coaching, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- Use data and commercial insight to influence decision-making and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and pragmatic solutions.
About You
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We're looking for an experienced interim HR professional who can quickly establish credibility and make an immediate impact.
You'll bring:
- Significant experience operating as a Senior or Lead HR Business Partner within a legal or law firm environment.
- A proven track record of mentoring, coaching, and leading HR Business Partners, helping to develop capability and performance.
- Strong employment law knowledge and experience managing complex employee relations cases.
- Previous experience leading organizational change, restructures, and business transformation.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and challenge Partners and senior leaders.
- A pragmatic, commercially focused approach with the ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery.
- The ability to provide stability, leadership, and direction from day one.
If you're an experienced Interim Senior HR Business Partner with legal sector experience and are available to start at short notice, I'd love to hear from you. Please get in touch to discuss this exciting opportunity in more detail.
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