Senior HR Business Partner
Simpro Software
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Leeds • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Be the strategic HR lead for the UK region, partnering with leaders while aligning with global HR frameworks and initiatives.
- Partner with UK leadership to deliver commercially focused people strategies that support business performance and growth.
- Shape workforce planning and organisational design to ensure the business has the right structure, capability, and talent.
- Embed global HR frameworks while applying pragmatic, regionally relevant solutions.
- Advise leaders on organisational effectiveness, leadership capability, and team performance.
- Use workforce data and commercial insights to inform decisions and improve productivity.
- Support leaders to set clear expectations, manage performance effectively, and build accountable teams.
- Identify capability gaps and strengthen succession pipelines and leadership development.
- Contribute to initiatives that attract, develop, and retain high-performing employees.
- Provide commercially balanced guidance on complex employee relations matters.
- Partner with leaders to deliver organisational change and transformation initiatives.
- Own regional employee data, ensuring accurate reporting and meaningful insights for leadership.
- Support the practical adoption of AI tools and technologies across HR and the wider business to improve efficiency and decision-making.
Requirements
- 7+ years experience in HR or People Business Partnering roles, ideally in a fast-paced SaaS or tech environment.
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect people strategy to business performance
- Confidence influencing and challenging leaders constructively
- Hands-on experience driving initiatives like merges, acquisitions, and organizational transformations.
- Proven experience coaching and influencing managers at all levels, including executives.
- Strong analytical mindset – confident using people data to tell stories and inform decisions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to adapt across cultures and time zones.
- Self-starter, comfortable working autonomously while being a team player in a global setting.
- Strong judgment when managing complex employee relations matters.
- The ability to work collaboratively within a global HR team while supporting local leadership.
- Workday experience (highly desirable)
Benefits
- A generous annual leave entitlement plus a personal leave entitlement
- Private Health Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential support on relationships, bereavement, finances)
- Life Insurance
- Company pension scheme, with an uncapped 5% employer contribution
- Generous Parental Leave Program
- Paid Volunteer Leave Days
- Public Holiday Exchange Scheme
- Enjoy up to 4 weeks a year of flexible 'Work from Anywhere'!
- Talent Referral Programme – get rewarded for referring a friend to join our team!
- Cyclescheme, a salary sacrifice to treat yourself to a bike & equipment
- Home & Tech Scheme, a salary sacrifice to treat yourself to some new tech
- A discounts and cash back scheme
- Casual dress and relaxed office environment
- Opportunities for career progression and development
- Diverse training & internal networking opportunities across all of our product lines
- Service recognition awards
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
workforce planningorganizational designemployee relationsleadership developmentdata analysisperformance managementsuccession planningcoachingorganizational transformationcommercial strategy
Soft Skills
strategic thinkinginfluencingcommunicationstakeholder managementcollaborationjudgmentautonomyadaptabilityteamworkproblem-solving