People Partner Lead - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Accepting applications until: 

23 June 2026

Job Description

Your Role: People Partner Lead

As a People Partner Lead at Global, you will work closely with the people partners to organise the team’s workload and priorities. You will take the lead on department projects and act as a point of contact for the partnering team as well as managers and leaders across the department.

You will play a key role in coaching and guiding on our People policies and procedures, managing employee relations issues and supporting key people initiatives. You’ll work with the Head of/People Director in driving the people strategies, fostering a positive workplace culture, and ensuring alignment with organisational goals.

Key Responsibilities

 

• Employee Relations (30%): You'll act as a trusted advisor to managers and leaders, owning Employee Relations cases end-to-end. This includes managing disciplinaries, grievances, and other ER matters, ensuring they are handled fairly, consistently, and in line with company policy and employment legislation.
• Strategic alignment (15%): You'll work closely with the Head of People/People Director along with the Senior Leads to help shape the people strategies to support them.
• Change management (15%): You'll be a key driver in running our change programmes, ensuring managers and leaders deliver change effectively.
• Performance management (10%): You'll drive and implement performance management processes ensuring alignment with the department's goals.
• People data and metrics (10%): You'll pull key people data to support in making and identifying key decisions, presenting recommendations to Global leads.
• Culture and engagement (10%): You'll champion initiatives to enhance Global's culture utilising our engagement surveys to identify areas of improvement.
• People projects and initiatives (10%): You’ll lead and support HR-related projects and initiatives, working with stakeholders to ensure delivery is well-managed, aligned to business needs, and embedded effectively.

What You’ll Love About This Role

 

• Think Big: You'll contribute to creating a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
• Own It: No two days will be the same. From handling employee relations, supporting with recruitment to running performance reviews.
• Keep it Simple: You'll address complex issues and situations and find simple effective ways to navigate through them.
• Better Together: Being a trusted advisor, helping Globallers and managers navigate workplace challenges.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have:

• Developed an in-depth knowledge of your business areas, including their challenges, commercial priorities and people related risk areas,
• Become a trusted partner for managers and Globallers with the ability to provide actionable guidance.
• Able to quickly support with the employee lifecycle, from recruitment, onboarding, performance and off-boarding.
• Identify impactful opportunities across the team or department from simplifying a process to resolving a persistent issue.
• You'll feed into and understand how the people strategy aligns with the departments goals.

What You’ll Need

 

• People experience: A proven People Partner with strength in employee relations, employee lifecycle, talent identification and development, culture and succession planning
• Business acumen and commerciality: Proven ability to understand overall business objectives and work within a commercial, growth-focused business.
• Delivery excellence: The ability to implement at pace with a track record for effective delivery. Ability to manage change and spot opportunities to minimise complexity.
• People management: Have a breadth of People Partner experience in an ever-changing environment. The ability to develop effective working relationships, with the ability to influence and motivate others.
• Communication: Strong communicator with a logical, structured, clear, credible and mature style. Capable of quickly engaging audiences of all levels.
• Analytical and data-driven approach: Will have analytical capability, experience of managing and analysing People metrics to find root causes and develop short, medium and long term plans.