Freelance Senior People & Culture Consultant

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