HR Business Partner - 6 Month FTC

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage employee relations cases confidently, offering clear and pragmatic guidance.
• Support managers through organisational change, team structures and performance conversations.
• Build strong relationships quickly across all areas of the business and become a trusted HR partner.
• Identify people challenges and work closely with stakeholders to find practical solutions.
• Support key people projects and initiatives across onboarding, performance, engagement and process improvement.
• Drive consistency in people practices, policies and ways of working across the business.
• Work at pace in a hands-on environment, balancing day-to-day HR support with wider business priorities.
• Provide coaching and guidance to managers on people matters and leadership capability.
• Collaborate closely with the wider People & Talent team to support the business during a busy period of growth and change.

Qualifications

• Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner in a complex or fast-growing environment.
• Strong track record of leading performance management processes through to resolution, including underperformance and capability cases.
• Confident supporting change management, business transformation and evolving organisational needs.
• Demonstrable experience supporting organisational change, re-design and business transformation.
• Solid understanding of employee relations and current UK employment law, with experience managing risk and complexity.
• Experience leading cyclical people processes such as salary reviews, performance reviews and objective setting.
• Highly resilient with strong stakeholder management skills.
• CIPD qualification preferred.
• Experience working across multiple territories is desirable.
• Experience within beauty or cosmetics is a plus, but not essential.

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• employee relations
• performance management
• change management
• business transformation
• organisational change
• risk management
• salary reviews
• performance reviews
• objective setting

Soft Skills

• relationship building
• coaching
• stakeholder management
• resilience
• communication

Certifications & Qualifications

• CIPD qualification