Freelance Senior People & Culture Consultant

Posted 9 hours 39 minutes ago by Salt

£750 Daily
Contract
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London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Freelance Senior People & Culture Consultant (Staff Retention & Workforce Scaling)
Start: Monday, 1 December 2025
End: 3-month contract (strong likelihood of extension)
Rate: £750 day
IR35: Inside IR35 (must use an Umbrella company, not a Sole trader or Ltd)
Location: London
Work pattern: 5 days per week, 2 days on-site, 3 days remote
Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday
Client: Global public services

About the Role

A large, complex service-led organisation is looking for an experienced Senior People & Culture Consultant to lead a project focused on reducing staff attrition and improving long-term workforce stability. You'll design, implement and evaluate retention solutions that directly improve employee welfare and support workforce scale-up. This is a strategic, delivery-focused role requiring someone who has operated at a senior level and has demonstrable evidence of running retention and recruitment-related transformation projects.

What You'll Do

  • Lead the end-to-end design of workforce retention strategies across high-volume service teams

  • Diagnose root causes of attrition using data, interviews, engagement insights and operational inputs

  • Develop scalable, evidence-based solutions that reduce turnover and improve long-term employee welfare

  • Implement practical interventions that can be adopted by operational, HR and leadership teams

  • Work closely with People, Operations, Transformation, Finance and Leadership stakeholders

  • Build clear frameworks, models and playbooks that can be replicated and scaled across teams

  • Track, measure and report the impact of retention initiatives (eg, turnover reduction, stability improvements, cost savings)

  • Act as senior project manager - owning timelines, delivery, governance and stakeholder communication

  • Provide expert guidance on workforce planning, recruitment processes, retention risk and employee experience


What You'll Bring

  • Proven experience delivering staff-retention or attrition-reduction projects

  • Background: improving employee welfare and workforce stability

  • Experience designing solutions that help organisations scale

  • Senior-level strategic capability with hands-on delivery skills

  • Strong stakeholder management across People, Ops and Leadership

  • Confident project manager able to lead a multi-team work stream

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements