Sue Ryder
Senior Organisational Change Business Partner
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Senior Organisational Change Business Partner
£60-70k per annum
Homebased with regular nationwide travel
37.5 hours per week
18-month fixed term contract
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Sue Ryder is here to make sure everyone approaching the end of their life or living with grief can access the support they need. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to how we cope and the help we need, but with our support, no one has to face dying or grief alone.
This Senior Organisational Change Business Partner will join our dedicated people leadership team for a fixed term of 18 months and play a key role in delivering expert support across complex change programmes, operating in a fast-paced environment where accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement are essential.
About the role:
- Partner with senior leaders to map out the "to-be" operating models. Track line management spans of control, redundancy pools, and critical role preservation for the remaining workforce.
- Develop localised, step-by-step transition roadmaps for change. Collaborate with operations and other support teams to ensure a smooth process.
- Build resilience in line managers. Equip them with the tools, scripts, and emotional capability to deliver tough messages and keep teams motivated.
- Work closely with People Business Partnering team and Legal to manage consultations, trade unions, or employee representative groups. Ensure all consultations and selection matrices are fair, consistent, and legally compliant.
- Work closely with Communications team to ensure transparent, timely communication plans. Own the messaging around why the change is happening and when.
- Where appropriate, design redeployment paths to keep high-potential talent within the organisation.
- Monitor workforce morale, absenteeism, and productivity. Proactively flag high-risk areas to senior leadership and create intervention strategies.
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About you:
- Proven experience of design and delivery of organisational transformation programmes and culture change
- Strong understanding of HR best practices, employment law, change management and organisational development
- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to influence senior leaders on highly complex matters, including trade unions
- Experience of influencing and negotiating with senior trade union representatives.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on delivery
- Ability to effectively manage a varied and complex workload, exercising sound judgement, strong planning skills and a high degree of accuracy.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to align HR initiatives with business objectives
- Builds trust and credibility with senior stakeholders quickly
- Leads transformation with clarity and confidence
- Experience in a multi-site or regional Senior HR leadership role
- Background in driving cultural change and transformation programs
- Ability to utilise appropriate change management methodologies to achieve positive outcomes
Minimum essential criteria:
- CIPD and/or change management post-graduate level qualification or equivalent experience
- Proven experience as a Senior HR Business partner, Senior Change Partner or similar strategic HR role
Benefits:
- Company pension scheme
- 27 days holiday - rising to 33 with length of service plus bank holidays
- NHS annual leave honoured (T&Cs apply)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Enhanced sick pay
- Employee Networks - LGBTQ+, Ethnic Diversity and Equality, People with Disabilities, and Women and Non-Binary Individuals
- Staff discount of 10% on new goods online at shop.sueryder.org
- Structured induction programme and learning and development opportunities.
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We actively encourage applications from people from all backgrounds to help us to provide the best possible experience for the people who use our services and continue to make Sue Ryder a great place to work, and attract and recruit the best, most diverse workforce possible. We are particularly interested in increasing applications from the global majority, LGBTQIA+ and people with disabilities as they are currently underrepresented in our organisation.
Please let us know if you have any feedback to make our recruitment processes more accessible and inclusive or if you require any adjustments made to your application or interview process by emailing recruitment@sueryder.org
https://www.sueryder.org/jobs/equity-diversity-inclusion
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