Senior People Business Partner

We are a dynamic and forward-thinking business on a mission to simplify how we work, elevate the employee and customer experience, modernise our platforms, and make a real impact on society. 

Now, we're looking for a Strategic People Business Partner to play a key leadership role in a major business transformation across our Corporate Functions. 

This role will act as a lead People Partner for a business division, alongside delivering transformational deliverables as part of the overall transformation programmes. As a Strategic HR Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our talent strategies, fostering a high-performance culture, and mitigating talent risks across the organisation.

Please note this is a hybrid role with our Birmingham Head Office and you will be required to be based from this office 2-3 days per week and may require travel to other offices nationally and internationally as needed.

You’ll play a central role in driving our talent and transformation agenda across the corporate function. Your key responsibilities will include: 

• Strategic Workforce Planning: Identify current and future skills needs, guide recruitment and upskilling strategies, and use workforce insights to shape long-term plans. 

• Talent & Performance Leadership: Lead succession planning, talent reviews, and development strategies. Champion performance management, coaching, and leadership transitions to build a high-performing, future-ready team. 

• Skills Transformation: Act as a subject matter expert on our journey to a skills-based organisation—revamping job architecture, conducting skills gap analyses, and embedding a future-focused framework. 

• Employee Engagement & Development: Foster a culture of continuous learning and engagement, using data-driven insights to build a positive, high-impact employee experience. 

• Change & Transformation: Partner with leaders to drive people aspects of change initiatives, ensuring cultural alignment, smooth transitions, and sustainable ways of working. 

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use people analytics and talent metrics to influence strategy, monitor progress, and continuously improve performance across the function. 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with other People Partners, Finance, and Centres of Excellence to deliver an integrated people strategy aligned with broader business goals. 

• Proven Experience: A strong track record as a People Business Partner within corporate functions, ideally in a complex or global environment. 

• Trusted Executive Coach & Advisor: Confident in challenging, coaching and influencing senior leaders, while maintaining trust, integrity, and confidentiality. 

• Strategic & Commercial Mindset: Commercially astute, with a clear understanding of how people strategies drive business outcomes and customer success.  

• Data-Driven Decision Making: Analytical and outcomes-focused -able to translate data into actionable insights that inform strategy and measure impact. 

• Organisational Change Leadership: Skilled in organisational change and transformation, including M&A, restructures, and cultural change. 

• Clear Communicator: Able to simplify the complex, engage stakeholders across levels and geographies, and align teams around a shared vision. 

• Global Perspective: Comfortable working across regions and cultures, with an understanding of local sensitivities and time zone coordination. 

• Execution Excellence: Detail-oriented, structured, and solutions-focused with the ability to move from strategy to execution seamlessly. 

Wellbeing that means something

• 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
• Exceptional family leave, 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
• Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
• Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions

Financial benefits that have your back

• Group-wide performance bonus, when we win, you win
• Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it

Grow your career with us

• SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
• Access to external training and apprenticeships

Making a Difference 

• MatchIt! Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
• Pennies from Heaven donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger

Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:

• ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
• Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover

OneAdvanced is one of the UK's largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of £330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to power the world of work and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UK's most critical sectors.

We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.

To learn more about working at OneAdvanced please click here 

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