Aptia Group
People Business Partner
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Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially minded People Business Partner who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. Working collaboratively as part of the People Business Partner team supporting the UK business, you will provide expert people advice and support on a broad range of employee relations and business change activities.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong employment law expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills and the ability to deliver on organizational change.
This is a fixed-term contract role initially for a period of 9-months, with an opportunity to extend.
Aptia operates a hybrid-working culture, and this role can align to any UK office. Preference is for commutable distance to Glasgow City Centre.
Key Responsibilities
Organisational Change
- Support business transformation and change initiatives across the organization.
- Partner with leaders to deliver organizational change programmes while maintaining employee engagement and mitigating risk.
- Develop communication and change management approaches that support positive business and colleague outcomes.
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Employee Relations & Case Management
- Support the management of employee relations cases, including disciplinaries, grievances, investigations, performance management, and absence matters, escalating any trends, insights, or complex matters to the Senior People Partners.
- Provide pragmatic, risk-balanced advice to managers and leaders on employment law, policy, and people-related issues.
- Ensure cases are managed effectively, consistently, and in line with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with legal counsel where required on complex and sensitive matters.
Governance & Regulatory Support
- Partner with business leaders and compliance teams to ensure people-related regulatory requirements are effectively managed.
Stakeholder Management
- Coach and support people managers to improve leadership effectiveness and confidence.
- Design and deliver interventions focused on manager capability, performance management, and employee engagement.
- Act as a trusted advisor to leaders, helping them navigate challenging conversations and complex people decisions.
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Strategic People Partnership
- Contribute to talent, succession, and organizational development initiatives.
- Support the development and implementation of people policies and best practice frameworks.
- Identify trends and themes within employee relations activity, providing insight and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
Requirements
- Proven experience supporting complex employee relations activity within a fast-paced, evolving organization.
- Strong experience managing organizational change, restructures, and collective consultation processes.
- Sound understanding of UK employment law and employee relations best practice.
- A track record of coaching and developing people managers to improve leadership capability and performance.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
- CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent) qualification preferred.
- Experience supporting regulated environments (desirable)
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