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Interim HR Business Partner (Strategy)Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited • Manchester, Lancashire, UK
Interim HR Business Partner (Strategy)

Interim HR Business Partner (Strategy)

Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited • Manchester, Lancashire, UK
4 days ago
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  • Temporary
Job description

Your New Organisation

You'll be joining a long-established, highly respected institution known for its warm, collaborative and diverse culture. This is an organisation that values partnership, insight and innovation, with a People function that is trusted, well-regarded and genuinely embedded in strategic decision-making.

Your New Role

As People Partner, you will act as the strategic people lead for your area. This is a role for someone who is confident in navigating complexity and influencing senior leaders with credibility and data-driven insight.

You'll take organisational strategy and translate it into meaningful people outcomes - shaping culture, capability, workforce planning and performance.

Responsibilities:

In this strategic partnering role, you will:

Strategic People Planning

  • Lead workforce, succession and capability planning.
  • Interpret financial and workforce data to generate actionable insight
  • Provide evidence-based recommendations to senior stakeholders

Culture, Behaviour & Performance

  • Strengthen leadership capability around performance and behavioural expectations
  • Embed a high-performance culture aligned to organisational values
  • Support departments to define and deliver what "great" looks like

Strategy into Practice

  • Translate organisational people strategy into clear, measurable outcomes
  • Demonstrate impact through strategy input delivery evidence

Stakeholder Influence & Complexity

  • Build trusted relationships with senior experts and leaders
  • Navigate governance, organisational nuance and unionised environments
  • Operate confidently in a large, matrixed, intellectually demanding setting

What You'll Need to Succeed

We're looking for an established People Partner who brings:

  • Experience operating strategically in a large, complex organisation
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with senior, expert-level audiences
  • A data-driven, insight-led approach to decision-making
  • Confidence interpreting financial and workforce information
  • The ability to translate strategy into practical, measurable people outcomes
  • Credibility, curiosity and a collaborative mindset

Benefits

  • 33 days annual leave + Christmas closure from Dec 24- 5th Jan.
  • Enhanced government pension scheme (17%)
  • Hybrid & flexible working.
  • 35-hour working week.
  • Outstanding development opportunities.
  • A wide range of staff discounts.
  • Plus, others.

If you can evidence where you've shaped strategy, influenced senior leaders and delivered measurable outcomes, please get in touch!

What you need to do nowIf you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.

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