People Partner

Job Title: People Partner 12 m mat cover Location: UK based / Multi site business Salary: Circa 60k Hours: Full-time, 8am - 17:30pm, Mon-Fri

About the Role: We are supporting a successful and growing multi-site, multi-brand organisation in the appointment of an experienced People Partner.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a commercially minded HR professional who enjoys working closely with senior leaders and wants to play a key role in shaping people strategy, organisational performance and culture.

Working alongside senior leadership teams, you will act as a trusted People Partner, providing strategic insight and challenge across organisational design, workforce planning, talent, leadership capability, employee engagement and business change.

People Partner responsibilities:

• Partner with senior leadership teams to develop and deliver people plans aligned to business objectives.

• Provide advice and challenge on organisational design, workforce planning and capability.

• Use people data and insight to influence business decisions and improve performance.

• Lead talent reviews, succession planning and capability mapping.

• Support leadership development and the creation of high-performing teams.

• Identify and address current and future capability gaps.

• Provide strategic guidance on complex and sensitive employee relations matters.

• Lead the people aspects of restructuring, integration and business change programmes.

• Support organisational alignment and capability development during periods of change.

• Help embed new structures, roles and ways of working while maintaining business performance.

• Ensure people practices align with legal, statutory and internal governance requirements.

• Provide pragmatic, commercially balanced advice on people-related decisions.

People Partner will have / be:

• Experience working within a complex, multi-site or multi-brand environment is mandatory

• Proven experience in a senior HR Business Partner or People Partner role in hard . retail / hospitality industry

• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

• Experience of organisational design, transformation, turnaround or change.

• A solid understanding of UK employment law.

• A pragmatic and solutions-focused approach.

• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery.