People & Culture Partner

At 1850, we provide flexible, high-quality HR support to a diverse portfolio of businesses. We partner with businesses to deliver both strategic HR direction and hands-on people solutions across the full employee lifecycle.

We’re a fun, vibrant, and collaborative team who genuinely care about creating engaged, high-performing workplace cultures — both for ourselves and the businesses we work with. Life’s too short for boring corporate environments, so we bring energy, authenticity, and real care into everything we do.

This is a unique, varied opportunity where you will:

• Act as the lead people partner for a portfolio of businesses / stakeholders
• Support other businesses in a secondary or advisory capacity where additional resources or expertise is needed
• Work across multiple businesses, balancing strategic input with hands-on delivery
• No two days will be the same. You’ll be switching between big-picture thinking and rolling up your sleeves to deliver practical HR solutions — all while building strong relationships.

What You’ll Be Doing

Business Partnership

• Build trusted relationships as the primary lead for allocated businesses
• Support additional businesses with tailored advice and guidance
• Really get to know each business, understanding its people, culture, and commercial goals

Strategic HR

• Provide commercially focused advice to business leaders
• Support organisational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives
• Lead on employee engagement, performance, and cultural development
• Handle complex employee relations matters with confidence and commercial acumen

Operational & Hands-On HR

You’ll deliver full lifecycle HR support, including:

• Recruitment and onboarding
• Policy development and implementation
• Performance and absence management
• Employee relations casework
• Offboarding processes

You’ll also:

• Maintain compliant HR documentation and records
• Support HR systems, reporting, and processes

Networking & Growth

• Represent 1850 at networking events and forums
• Build relationships that strengthen our brand, network and create opportunities to support more businesses
• Play a role in our continued growth

Who We’re Looking For

Let’s be honest — this role isn’t for everyone.

We’re looking for someone who is:

• Strategic and loves partnering with multiple stakeholders
• Someone who genuinely believes great cultures don’t happen by accident
• Someone who believes HR should be proactive, practical and make a genuine difference to businesses and their people
• Resilient and thrives in a genuinely fast-paced environment
• Someone who enjoys building trusted relationships and becoming part of the businesses they support
• Comfortable with change, ambiguity, and shifting priorities
• Proactive — someone who drives initiatives rather than just supports them

Dependant on experience between £40,000 and £50,000 FTE

Pension

25 Holidays + your birthday off