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Senior People Partner - County Antrim - Newly created
MCS Group is delighted to be exclusively partnering with a large, ambitious organisation undergoing significant transformation to appoint a Senior People Partner to its People function.
The role:
This is a commercially focused, strategic partnering role offering the opportunity to influence senior leadership, shape workforce strategy, and support major organisational change.
The main responsibilities:
- Developing and delivering functional people plans aligned with wider business objectives.
- Advising leaders on workforce costs, labour spend, budgets, and organisational performance.
- Leading workforce planning in response to growth, automation, and changing capability requirements.
- Supporting organisational design, restructuring, and operating-model transformation.
- Leading initiatives across culture, engagement, leadership capability, talent, and organisational effectiveness.
- Using people data and workforce intelligence to identify risks, trends, and opportunities.
- Facilitating talent and succession-planning discussions with senior stakeholders.
- Providing oversight and guidance on formal employee-relations matters.
- Driving process improvement and ensuring consistent people practices across the organisation.
- Providing direction and support to People Partners aligned with the relevant business areas.
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The successful candidate:
- Strong strategic HR business partnering experience.
- Confidence influencing and constructively challenging Executive and Senior Leaders.
- A clear understanding of P&L, workforce budgets, labour costs, and commercial decision-making.
- Experience developing workforce plans aligned with operational and financial objectives.
- A successful track record in organisational change, transformation, and process improvement.
- Experience supporting organisational design, restructuring, or new operating models.
- The ability to use people data to inform commercial decisions.
- Strong, hands-on employee-relations experience, supported by practical and up-to-date knowledge of Northern Ireland employment legislation.
- Experience within manufacturing, engineering, construction, or another complex operational environment would be desirable.
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What's on offer:
- Competitive base salary (dependent on experience).
- Bonus.
- Flexible hours.
- Early finish on a Friday.
To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Rebekah Mulligan, HR Recruitment Manager at MCS Group on 02896 205148
Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current jobs www.mcsgroup.jobs
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