Manage employee relations cases, coach managers, maintain UK HR policies and processes, and provide people data insights while supporting People Business Partners and strategic projects, including TUPE integrations.
Senior People Business Partner
📜 Description
- Partner with UK leadership on workforce planning and connect people plans to business outcomes.
- Coach people leaders on leadership, performance management, and difficult conversations.
- Lead employee relations cases, including disciplinary, grievance, performance, redundancy, and restructure processes.
- Own end-to-end UK recruitment and work with the UK Talent Coordinator and global Talent Acquisition team.
- Maintain UK HR systems and processes, lead the upcoming HRIS migration, and improve engagement activity and people reporting.
- Collaborate with the global People & Culture team on projects and advise on UK legislation and talent market developments.
🛠️ Requirements
- 7+ years’ generalist HR experience, including time as an HR or People Business Partner, ideally in a scale-up or fast paced commercial environment
- A track record of partnering with and influencing senior commercial leaders at GM level
- Strong, current knowledge of UK employment law and employee relations, including disciplinary, grievance, redundancy and TUPE
- Hands on, end to end recruitment experience, plus confidence using an ATS (Lever or similar) and an HRIS
- A curious, adaptable and collaborative approach, with high ownership and the confidence to work autonomously
- Able to travel occasionally within the UK
✨ Benefits
- & Support
- 💰 Bonus scheme: opportunity to earn based on your performance
- 🏖️ Annual leave: 25 days + bank holidays
- 🎂 Day off for your Birthday!
- ❤️🩹 Private Health Insurance and Monthly Wellness Allowance
- 🧑🏼🧑🏼🧒🏼 Family support: a top-up to parental leave pay for primary and secondary carers
- 🚗 Only at Splend: use of a Splend car from our fleet through in-house rental
- 📖 Dedicated Learning & Development platform and paid study leave for courses to help you grow at Splend
Full job description
About Us
You'll be excited to work in this role if...
- You love being a true generalist - coaching a manager through a tough conversation in the morning and running a hiring process in the afternoon.
- You enjoy business partnering, advising and rolling up your sleeves all in one day
- You want to be the go to people partner for a growing London office, with real autonomy to shape how things are done.
- You’re curious about how better systems and practical AI tools can strip out admin and make people’s processes work better.
About the role
As the Senior People Business Partner, you’ll be the senior People & Culture presence in our London office. Reporting to our Chief People Officer in AU and partnering closely with the UK General Manager, you’ll own the full breadth of the UK people agenda: employee relations, engagement, performance, culture and end-to-end recruitment. You’ll have the autonomy to lead the UK people plan, while staying closely connected to our global People & Culture team in Australia and contributing to global projects. You’ll also provide dotted-line leadership to our UK Talent Coordinator, setting the standard for quality hiring across London.
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