People Partner
Posted 16 hours 37 minutes ago by Academia Ltd t/a Smartdesc
People Partner
Location: Hemel Hempstead, Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK
Salary: Circa £45,000 per annum
The People Partner will play a critical role in delivering the people strategy across the organisation, providing HR support and partnering closely with key stakeholders across the Group. This role will support multiple sites and business areas, including our Technical Services office in Greece, ensuring consistent, commercially focused, and high quality people support across all locations.
The People Partner is a newly created and exciting opportunity born out of our rapid and continued growth, with ambitious expansion plans already firmly in motion. As our organisation scales, we are strengthening our People team to ensure we continue to deliver exceptional support across all areas of the business and all locations.
We are proud to be a business that truly invests in its people. Internal progression are at the heart of our culture, and we have a strong track record of developing and promoting home grown talent into senior roles across the organisation. This role offers significant opportunity for growth, development, and the chance to make a real impact as part of a fast moving and evolving business.
Amongst other tasks, you will be responsible for Strategic Business Partnering- Act as a trusted People Partner to senior leaders and key stakeholders across the Group in multiple locations including London, Hemel Hempstead, Reading and Greece.
- Build strong relationships with business leaders to understand operational needs and deliver aligned people solutions.
- Support the delivery of the people strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Provide expert level (Tier 3) HR advice and guidance on complex employee relations cases.
- Manage sensitive and high risk cases including disciplinary, grievance, performance management, absence management, and restructuring.
- Ensure all casework is managed in line with employment law, internal policies, and best practice.
- Coach and support on complex case escalation and development.
- Ensure alignment of people practices across different regions while considering local requirements where applicable.
- Use people data and analytics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities across the workforce.
- Support and lead on change management initiatives including restructures, TUPE, and organisational design projects.
- Partner with leaders to embed change effectively and support employee engagement throughout transitions.
- Drive initiatives that improve performance, engagement, and retention.
- Proven experience in a People Partner / HR Business Partner role.
- Strong background in complex employee relations case management.
- Strong understanding of UK employment law; international exposure desirable.
- Experience supporting organisational change and transformation.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior level.
- CIPD qualification (Level 5 or above desirable).
- Commercially aware with strong business acumen.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and relationship focused.
- Proactive and solutions oriented mindset.
The successful candidate will have a willingness to undertake the responsibilities outlined in this job specification, while also being flexible and open to carrying out additional duties outside of this scope from time to time, in line with the evolving needs and priorities of the business.
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