Freelance Senior People & Culture Consultant

Freelance Senior People & Culture Consultant (Staff Retention & Workforce Scaling)

Start: Monday, 1 December 2025; End: 3-month contract (strong likelihood of extension); Rate: £750 day; IR35: Inside IR35 (must use an Umbrella company, not a Sole trader or Ltd); Location: London; Work pattern: 5 days per week (2 days on site, 3 days remote); Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday.

Client: Global public services

About the Role

A large, complex service led organisation is looking for an experienced Senior People & Culture Consultant to lead a project focused on reducing staff attrition and improving long term workforce stability. You'll design, implement and evaluate retention solutions that directly improve employee welfare and support workforce scale up. This is a strategic, delivery focused role requiring someone who has operated at a senior level and has demonstrable evidence of running retention and recruitment related transformation projects.

What You'll Do

• Lead the end to end design of workforce retention strategies across high volume service teams.
• Diagnose root causes of attrition using data, interviews, engagement insights and operational inputs.
• Develop scalable, evidence based solutions that reduce turnover and improve long term employee welfare.
• Implement practical interventions that can be adopted by operational, HR and leadership teams.
• Work closely with People, Operations, Transformation, Finance and Leadership stakeholders.
• Build clear frameworks, models and playbooks that can be replicated and scaled across teams.
• Track, measure and report the impact of retention initiatives (e.g., turnover reduction, stability improvements, cost savings).
• Act as senior project manager - owning timelines, delivery, governance and stakeholder communication.
• Provide expert guidance on workforce planning, recruitment processes, retention risk and employee experience.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience delivering staff retention or attrition reduction projects.
• Background in improving employee welfare and workforce stability.
• Experience designing solutions that help organisations scale.
• Senior level strategic capability with hands on delivery skills.
• Strong stakeholder management across People, Ops and Leadership.
• Confident project manager able to lead a multi team work stream.

Rates depend on experience and client requirements.