- This role is Remote, but National travel would be required to meet business needs.
The Senior HR Business Partner provides strategic HR leadership and expert people consulting across the Environment & Safety division. Working closely with senior leadership teams, the role shapes and delivers people strategies that support business growth, organisational effectiveness, workforce capability and cultural development.
In addition to supporting their own business areas, the Senior HRBP leads crossfunctional HR projects, drives organisational change initiatives, and provides coaching, mentoring and technical guidance to HR Business Partners across the division. While the role has no direct line management responsibility, it provides professional leadership and acts as a senior subject matter expert within the HR function.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Business Partnering & Strategic Alignment
- Act as a trusted adviser to Directors and senior leaders within the Environment & Safety division.
- Translate business strategy into people strategy, ensuring workforce plans and organisational capability support longterm goals.
- Provide strategic insight and challenge to influence leadership decisions on structure, culture, performance and change.
- Use data, analytics and workforce insights to guide decisionmaking and identify risks and opportunities.
- Organisational Effectiveness & Change
- Lead organisational design, restructuring and workforce planning activities.
- Drive cultural development initiatives that support engagement, inclusion and high performance.
- Lead or contribute to major change programmes, ensuring effective planning, communication and stakeholder management.
- Support leaders in building leadership capability through coaching and development.
- Talent, Capability & Workforce Development
- Shape talent strategies, including succession planning, capability building and leadership development.
- Partner with Talent, L&D and Recruitment teams to ensure aligned and effective people solutions.
- Identify future skills needs and support the development of workforce capability plans.
- Employee Relations & Risk Management
- Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations issues, ensuring risks are managed effectively.
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation, organisational policies and best practice.
- Support the creation of a positive employee experience and a healthy, safe working environment.
- HR Leadership & Collaboration
- Provide coaching, mentoring and technical guidance to HR Business Partners and HR colleagues.
- Lead crossfunctional HR projects that improve processes, systems and organisational capability.
- Act as a senior subject matter expert within the HR function, contributing to HR strategy and continuous improvement.
- Significant experience in a senior HR Business Partner or equivalent strategic HR role.
- Strong background in organisational design, change management and workforce planning.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders and operate as a trusted strategic adviser.
- Experience leading crossfunctional projects and delivering complex change.
- Strong understanding of employment law, employee relations and HR best practice.
- Excellent analytical, problemsolving and communication skills.
- CIPD Level 7 (or equivalent experience) preferred.
- Strategic thinker with strong business acumen.
- Confident influencer with the ability to challenge constructively.
- Collaborative, relationshipdriven and able to work across complex stakeholder groups.
- Proactive, solutionsfocused and comfortable with ambiguity.