[Hiring] Senior HR Business Partner @International Medical Group

Role Description

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP) is a senior member of the HR team, responsible for delivering strategic and operational HR leadership across IMG, with primary responsibility for the UK and broader support for global people initiatives and priorities.

• Acts as a trusted adviser to senior leaders.
• Holds significant responsibility for complex Employee Relations, UK recruitment oversight, organisational change, workforce planning, talent, employment risk, and manager capability.
• Independently leads complex and sensitive people matters, providing commercially pragmatic advice.
• Ensures decisions are fair, consistent, and aligned with UK employment law and recognised good practice.
• Partners with global HR colleagues to support international initiatives, organisational change, acquisitions, and the development of consistent global HR practices.

Qualifications

• Significant progressive HR experience, including substantial experience at Senior HRBP, HR Manager, Employee Relations or comparable senior level.
• Extensive hands-on experience independently managing complex UK Employee Relations matters.
• Strong practical knowledge of UK employment law and ACAS principles.
• Demonstrable experience leading complex investigations, grievances, disciplinary, capability, absence, and performance matters.
• Strong experience supporting restructuring, consultation, organisational change, and workforce planning.
• Experience providing strategic HR advice and constructive challenge to senior leaders.
• Experience overseeing or partnering closely with recruitment and workforce planning.
• Experience operating within a global, matrixed or geographically dispersed organisation.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to balance business objectives with employment, employee, and reputational risk.
• Excellent investigation, communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making capability.
• Ability to manage highly confidential and sensitive matters with discretion and sound judgement.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, TUPE, and integration activity desirable.
• CIPD Level 7 and/or Chartered CIPD membership desirable.

Requirements

• Act as a trusted senior HR adviser to business leaders, providing strategic and commercially focused people advice.
• Translate business priorities into practical workforce, organisational, and talent strategies.
• Advise on organisational design, workforce planning, succession, retention, and leadership effectiveness.
• Identify and proactively manage significant people, organisational, and employment risks.
• Contribute to global HR strategy, policies, and programmes, ensuring local legal and operational requirements are appropriately considered.
• Partner with HR colleagues internationally to drive consistency, strengthen organisational capability, and support IMG's global growth.
• Take end-to-end ownership of complex and high-risk UK Employee Relations matters.
• Provide senior-level advice on discrimination, reasonable adjustments, flexible working, family-related matters, conduct, and employment exits.
• Lead or advise on complex workplace investigations, ensuring fair, objective, and evidence-based outcomes.
• Lead HR support for restructuring, redundancy, consultation, and significant organisational change.
• Assess legal, financial, employee, and reputational risk and determine when specialist employment counsel should be engaged.
• Ensure UK ER practices are consistent with employment legislation, internal policy, and relevant ACAS principles.
• Use ER trends to identify systemic issues and recommend improvements to policy, leadership practice, and manager capability.
• Provide HR oversight of UK recruitment, ensuring hiring activity is aligned with workforce plans, organisational priorities, and appropriate recruitment practices.
• Partner with hiring leaders and recruitment colleagues on workforce requirements, role design, attraction strategy, and critical appointments.
• Provide appropriate challenge around headcount, organisational structure, and the business case for recruitment.
• Promote fair, consistent, and inclusive recruitment practices.
• Monitor recruitment trends, skills gaps, and workforce risks and recommend appropriate interventions.
• Contribute to global talent acquisition and workforce initiatives where required.
• Support talent reviews, succession planning, performance management, and development planning.
• Coach senior leaders and managers on difficult people decisions, performance, feedback, and effective leadership.
• Strengthen manager capability and accountability, enabling managers to resolve appropriate employee matters without unnecessary reliance on HR.
• Identify organisational capability gaps and partner with Learning & Development on appropriate interventions.
• Support succession and retention strategies for critical roles and talent.
• Lead HR support for reorganisations, workforce transformation, and other significant business changes.
• Support global HR initiatives, ensuring effective implementation across different jurisdictions in partnership with relevant local expertise.
• Support acquisition due diligence, integration, workforce transition, and TUPE considerations where relevant to the UK.
• Partner across HR, Legal, Finance, Payroll, Recruitment, and business leadership on complex people initiatives.
• Support the continued development of scalable and consistent global HR policies, frameworks, and ways of working.
• Use workforce data, employee feedback, absence, turnover, recruitment, and ER trends to identify risks and opportunities.
• Translate people data into clear recommendations and actions for senior leaders.
• Partner with leaders on initiatives that strengthen engagement, communication, accountability, inclusion, and organisational effectiveness.
• Monitor the effectiveness of HR interventions and adjust approaches based on business and workforce outcomes.

Benefits

• Fully remote working.
• Structured training and ongoing support to help you succeed.
• Opportunity to gain experience within international private medical insurance.
• A collaborative, professional, and supportive working environment.
• Bupa dental cover to support your oral health.
• Health Shield cash plan (including optical and everyday healthcare).
• Comprehensive travel insurance for added peace of mind.
• Royal London pension scheme to support your future.
• Death in service benefit for financial protection.
• Paid volunteer days to give back to causes that matter to you.
• Birthday day off + Christmas Eve off.
• 22 days holiday + 8 bank holidays (increasing to 30 days with tenure, pro-rated depending on shift pattern).