People Partner - Global Entity Management - 7179

People Partner - Global Entity Management

Job Title: People Partner - Global Entity Management

Location: Cambridge, UK - Hybrid

Contract: Fixed Term or Secondment (18 months)

Hours: Fulltime - 35hrs p/w

As part of our Global Entity Management (GEMC) activity, we are strengthening how we establish, integrate and operate across countries ensuring that our people frameworks, policies and practices are consistent, compliant and scalable, while remaining grounded in local context. This is not just about delivering change. It is about building the foundations that enable our organisation to operate effectively across markets, now and over time.

This is an opportunity to play a hands on role in delivering our Global Entity Management programme, helping shape how we operate across countries while supporting colleagues through change in a way that is compliant, practical and locally relevant.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As a People Partner within GEMC, you will play a hands on role in delivering and embedding people solutions that support how we operate globally. You will work closely with local teams, business leaders and specialist colleagues to ensure that people considerations are understood early and embedded through every stage of entity setup, change or integration.

You will bridge global intent and local reality, ensuring that people frameworks not only meet legal and organisational requirements, but can be adopted, supported and maintained in practice.

• Supporting delivery of people aspects of entity set up, integration or structural change
• Assessing current state and identifying gaps in policies, processes and employment arrangements
• Bringing local insight and context into global design decisions
• Supporting change impact assessments and advising the business on engagement and consultation approaches and supporting them through the engagement and consultation processes
• Developing clear communications, manager guidance and employee support materials
• Working with Reward, Policy, HR systems and external advisers to translate requirements into practical outputs
• Supporting implementation and ensuring effective handover into business as usual

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend % of their time collaborating and connecting face to face at our Cambridge offices. Flexible working will be considered from day one, including arrangements for disabilities or long term health conditions.

About You

Experience of working in a People Partnering capacity, ideally across multiple countries or complex organisational environments. You are confident navigating change and translating complexity into practical action.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting people related change or implementation activity in a business partnering capacity
• Knowledge of employment practices and how they shape policy, documentation and engagement
• Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to build trust across diverse groups
• Degree educated (relevant HR / People qualification) or equivalent level of relevant professional experience
• Ability to interpret data, local insight and input from others to identify risks and solutions
• Clear communication skills, including translating complex topics into accessible messages
• Confidence working in a fast moving, collaborative environment

It would be advantageous if you also have

• Experience working across different countries or cultural contexts in Business Partnering capacity including navigating differing local employment practices, stakeholder contexts and organisational needs
• Experience supporting more complex or multi country change activity where there are multiple stakeholders or competing requirements
• Experience working with external advisers or specialist teams to interpret requirements and translate them into practical outputs

Rewards and benefits

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary

We are a Disability Confident employer committed to equality and inclusion, ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. Applicants who opt in to the DC scheme and disclose a disability or long term health condition, who best meet the minimum criteria for the role, will receive an offer of an interview. Where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants without a disability or long term health condition.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment welcomes applications from all candidates, regardless of age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual identity, cultural or social background. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process; applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 19th July 2026. Successful candidates will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS.