Environment Bank

Senior People Partner

Environment Bank

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and stakeholders, providing expert guidance on people strategy, organisational design, and long-term workforce planning.
  • Partner with leadership teams and stakeholders to ensure people plans align with business objectives and support a high-performance, values-driven culture.
  • Influence decision-making using data, insight, and strong commercial understanding of the organisation’s needs.
  • Lead on complex and sensitive employee relations casework, ensuring fair, consistent, and legally compliant approaches.
  • Provide proactive guidance to managers on policy interpretation, best practice, performance concerns, sickness management, and conflict resolution.
  • Identify trends in ER issues and recommend preventative actions or training.
  • Design and deliver initiatives across succession planning, talent assessment, leadership development, and performance management.
  • Support leaders in identifying critical roles, talent pipelines, and development pathways to enable organisational growth.
  • Lead and support organisational change initiatives, including restructures, team redesigns, TUPE processes (if applicable), and shifts to new HR operating models.
  • Provide change expertise to help leaders plan, communicate, and implement change in a way that protects employee experience and mitigates risk.
  • Facilitate consultation processes, documentation, timelines, and impact assessments to ensure smooth transitions.
  • Use HR analytics, dashboards, and people metrics (e.g., attrition, engagement, capability gaps, absence, ER trends) to inform priorities and decision-making.
  • Identify people-related risks, opportunities, and patterns, presenting actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders.
  • Partner with People Coordinator to improve data integrity, reporting cadence, and insight-driven interventions.
  • Coach and mentor team leaders and managers to strengthen people management capability, confidence, and judgement.
  • Support leadership development through one-to-one coaching, facilitated workshops, and ongoing performance dialogue.
  • Guide managers on career conversations, team development plans, and how to create inclusive, empowering environments where colleagues can thrive.

Requirements

  • - Proven experience as a HR/ People Business Partner or equivalent senior HR role, with experience of managing HR teams
  • - Strong understanding of HR best practices and employment legislation
  • - Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels
  • - Demonstrated ability to influence and drive change within an organisational design
  • - Start-up to scale-up organisational experience
  • - Proficiency in using HR data and analytics to inform decision making
  • - Professional HR qualification (CIPD or equivalent) is preferred but not essential
  • - Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment
  • - Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
Benefits
  • As an organisation, we believe that work should be fulfilling, inspiring, and balanced, so we’re creating a space where our team can thrive, both personally and professionally – providing flexible working arrangements, mental wellbeing support, and more.
  • We offer...
  • 🎁 Performance-based annual bonus up to 10% of salary **💸 Pension scheme with employer-matched contributions at 6% of salary
  • 🏖️ 30 days of annual leave, plus paid bank holidays, birthday, and wellbeing day **➕ Option to purchase 5 additional days of annual leave after probation
  • 🏡 Remote and hybrid flexible working options **💼 Regional and departmental team co-working days
  • 🌞 Expenses-paid whole company meet twice a year **🎗️ Team fundraising and charity events **🎓 Ongoing career development with training and mentoring
  • 🩺 Medical cash back scheme to cover everyday healthcare costs **‍🧠 Employee assistance mental wellbeing support **❤️‍🩹️ Enhanced sickness pay allowance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
HR analyticsemployee relationsperformance managementsuccession planningtalent assessmentleadership developmentconflict resolutiondata integrityreporting cadencechange management
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsinfluencingrelationship buildingcoachingmentoringproblem-solvingadaptabilityjudgmentcollaboration
Certifications
CIPD