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People Business Partner

Milton Keynes
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People Business Partner

A quick look at the role

The People Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, delivering the people agenda that supports business growth and operational efficiency. The role requires a commercially focused HR professional to support the delivery of the People Strategy in a fast-paced, operational environment. This role is critical to aligning people priorities with business objectives, with a strong emphasis on talent development, recruitment, and organisational design.

Your Core Responsibilities

  • Partner with senior leaders to design and implement our People Strategy to enhance business performance
  • Drive the talent agenda to deliver tangible outputs by way of retention, promotion and ensure succession is well thought out and planned ahead.
  • Use people data and insight to influence decision-making and drive measurable outcomes and benefits to the business
  • Lead complex change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and alignment with business goals
  • Where applicable, leads the relationship between the business area and Trade Unions, planning and managing regular interactions with Trade Unions
  • Develop and implement initiatives that enhance the overall employee experience, ensuring a high-performing, engaged, and motivated workforce

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Our Essential Requirements

  • Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand financial performance and translate business objectives into effective People strategies
  • Experience managing business change including redundancy and TUPE projects
  • Experience of collective grievance and working with Trade Union Officers
  • Proactively identifies business risk and opportunity
  • Strong analytical mindset, with experience using People data and metrics to drive decision-making

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Skills

Commercial Acumen
Talent Development
Recruitment
Organisational Design
Change Management
Trade Union Relations
Employee Experience
Analytical Mindset
People Data
Decision-Making
Succession Planning
Retention
Promotion
Grievance Management
Business Risk Identification
Opportunity Identification

Location

Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom

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