Full job description 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 Partnerwill 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.