People Partner - Morgan McKinley - #2152888

Job Title: People Partner 12 m mat cover
Location: UK based / Multi site business
Salary: Circa £60k
Hours: Full-time, 8am - 17:30pm, Mon-Fri

About the Role:
We are supporting a successful and growing multi-site, multi-brand organisation in the appointment of an experienced People Partner.

This is a high-impact opportunity for a commercially minded HR professional who enjoys working closely with senior leaders and wants to play a key role in shaping people strategy, organisational performance and culture.

Working alongside senior leadership teams, you will act as a trusted People Partner, providing strategic insight and challenge across organisational design, workforce planning, talent, leadership capability, employee engagement and business change.

People Partner responsibilities:

• Partner with senior leadership teams to develop and deliver people plans aligned to business objectives.
• Provide advice and challenge on organisational design, workforce planning and capability.
• Use people data and insight to influence business decisions and improve performance.

• Lead talent reviews, succession planning and capability mapping.
• Support leadership development and the creation of high-performing teams.
• Identify and address current and future capability gaps.

• Provide strategic guidance on complex and sensitive employee relations matters.

• Lead the people aspects of restructuring, integration and business change programmes.
• Support organisational alignment and capability development during periods of change.
• Help embed new structures, roles and ways of working while maintaining business performance.

• Ensure people practices align with legal, statutory and internal governance requirements.
• Provide pragmatic, commercially balanced advice on people-related decisions.

• Experience working within a complex, multi-site or multi-brand environment is mandatory
• Proven experience in a senior HR Business Partner or People Partner role in hard . retail / hospitality industry
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience of organisational design, transformation, turnaround or change.
• A solid understanding of UK employment law.
• A pragmatic and solutions-focused approach.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery.