Senior HR Business Partner

AWE is recruiting a Senior HR Business Partner to play a crucial role in driving a high performance culture, leading organisational change, and enabling impactful leadership and talent management. The role operates as a strategic partner to senior leaders and is responsible for shaping and driving people plans that deliver business objectives in the short, medium and long term.

Location: Reading (free onsite parking). Regular travel to our Aldermaston and Burghfield sites in Reading may be required. Package: From £61,040, depending on suitability, qualifications and experience. Working pattern: A 9 day working fortnight. Flexibility around working arrangements (typically three days onsite per week) is agreed informally with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a strategic partner and trusted adviser to senior leaders, coaching leaders to achieve high performance outcomes and aligning people priorities with business strategy.
• Develop, influence and deliver integrated, multi year people plans that support organisational objectives.
• Lead organisational design and health activities, ensuring operating models, structures and capability are fit for future strategy.
• Shape and sponsor complex change initiatives, ensuring effective adoption and sustained outcomes.
• Champion business priorities within the People Function to influence strategy, service design and delivery.
• Drive senior level engagement with enterprise people programmes, operating models and cultural initiatives.
• Lead end to end talent and succession strategy, including capability building, skills planning and critical role coverage.
• Maximise talent brokerage, pipeline development and succession tools to build resilience and future capability.
• Own and evolve performance frameworks, embedding a high performance, outcome focused culture.
• Use insight, data and customer feedback to ensure the voice of the business informs People Function priorities and impact.

Qualifications

We are seeking someone with strong business partnering expertise, proven experience leading organisational change and working with senior leaders in an engaging, credible and influential way to achieve the best business outcome. The ideal candidate will have:

• CIPD qualification, ideally Level 7, or equivalent experience and knowledge.
• Expertise in coaching senior leaders to enhance performance.
• Experience leading people change initiatives with a clear understanding of associated risks.
• Ability to develop actionable people plans to address strategic workforce challenges.
• Strong understanding of reward and talent/succession planning methodologies is advantageous.

Additional Information

• Location: Reading (free onsite parking).
• Travel: Regular travel to Aldermaston and Burghfield sites in Reading.
• Salary: From £61,040.
• Working pattern: 9 day working fortnight with flexible, informal arrangements.