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Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Senior HR Business Partner - Short term Maternity cover
Location: Manchester (hybrid)
Hybrid: Must spend minimum of 2 days a week in Manchester Campus
Timeline: 4 months (Ideally starts: Jul 20, 2026, to Nov 30, 2026)
Hours: 30 hours / 4 days a week
Rate: hourly rate, Inside IR35 (payroll)
Job Overview:
As Senior HR Business Partner, the core objective is to advise and partner with the VP & Ground Transportation Leadership team across various (HR) topics. This Senior Business Partner role will partner, influence and advise business leaders on People related topics, actively engaging in the strategic and/or tactical direction, problem statements, business goals and priorities and how they impact the company.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support ELT members and/or stakeholders partnering within Trips - Ground Transportation.
- Responsible for working within organisational design principles and leading change initiatives with regard to structure design and development, reorganisations.
- Work in partnership with aCOE teams to deliver products/tools/ services that deliver against business strategy as well as the People Roadmap.
- Partner with HRD to drive the People Agenda for respective departments.
- Contribute to the optimization of existing HR policies, procedures and processes and translate HR strategy to own business unit.
- Responsible for end to end delivery and adoption of critical People initiatives within the supported organisations (e.g. promoting and enabling engagement conversations, performance optimization, implementing programs that attract and retain talent).
- Responsible for ensuring the capabilities needed in the respective organisations are there to deliver the business targets.
- Create tailored solutions for People related business challenges in partnership with (relevant) CoE's and People Services & Systems (PSS).
- Act as the voice of the business within the People Department. Accountable for identifying, predicting and articulating key People related business challenges.
- Represent the People Department in front of supported business partners. Ensure the business receives consistent quality of service and guidance so the business feels the People Department is acting as one voice.
- In addition to the partnering role, play a predominantly implementing/informing role in relation to application of operationalizing HR topics.
- Ensure that the local activities are compliant and aligned (where legally possible) to the global HR strategy.
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Skills and Experience Required:
- Previous experience in a Senior HRBP role
- A solid HR background in a large global corporate organisation
- Excellent high level communication skills
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