Job Description
As we continue to scale, evolve how we serve our customers and embed AI into the way we work, we're looking for a People Business Partner who can help turn that ambition into organisational reality.
You'll be joining an award-winning People team, recognised as CIPD People Team of the Year and HR Excellence People Team of the Year, inside a business named among the FT's Best Employers in Europe and one of the UK's most innovative companies.
This is a genuinely strategic partnering role. Working alongside our Services leadership team across the UK and India, you'll help shape a function that has the right structure, skills and capability to scale, deliver profitably and continuously improve the experience we provide to our customers.
If you're at your best when you're challenging and coaching senior leaders, solving complex workforce problems and using data to turn business strategy into people decisions, we'd love to hear from you.
What you will do
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You'll act as a trusted partner to our Services leadership team, translating commercial priorities into a clear and actionable people strategy.
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You'll take the lead on organisational design and strategic workforce planning across a multi-disciplinary, dual-geography workforce, helping us make the right decisions around cost, capacity, utilisation, capability and future skills.
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Leading strategic workforce planning across our global workforce, balancing capability, capacity, cost and utilisation.
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Embedding our talent architecture, including job families, levelling, capability frameworks and career pathways across technical, consulting and support roles.
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Partnering with leaders on talent, succession and performance, strengthening pipelines for business-critical and hard-to-fill roles.
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Using people data and talent metrics to identify challenges, influence decisions and measure the impact of our people strategy.
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Developing targeted engagement and retention strategies to reduce regretted attrition and strengthen the employee experience.
What you will have
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You'll already have significant experience operating as a People Business Partner or HR Business Partner, ideally within technology, SaaS, professional services, consulting or another complex people-led organisation.
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You'll be comfortable operating in a medium or large matrixed business and able to demonstrate the end-to-end impact you've personally had (not simply the programmes you've supported).
We're particularly interested in hearing from people who can demonstrate:
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Strong strategic partnering with senior business leaders and leadership teams.
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Experience translating business strategy into meaningful people and workforce plans.
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Commercial understanding and an appreciation of how workforce decisions affect business performance.
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Hands-on organisational design experience, strategic workforce planning and a skills based approach to organisational capability.
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Technology-enabled organisational change, whether through AI, automation, workflow improvement or broader digital transformation.
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Experience partnering a Professional Services, consulting, implementation, customer delivery or technology Services organisation would be particularly valuable.
What you'll earn (you won't find "competitive salary” written instead of a figure on our watch!)
£65,000 - £75,000 plus bonus
What you'll receive in return (Benefits)
Wellbeing that means something
- 26 days’ holiday + bank holidays (and the option to buy more) plus 1 paid volunteering day every year
- Exceptional family leave, 26 weeks fully paid maternity/adoption, 4 weeks fully paid paternity, 22 weeks fully paid shared parental leave, plus 5 days paid bereavement leave
- Robust sick pay of up to 13 weeks full pay + 13 weeks half pay
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
- Private medical insurance for everyone, no medical-history exclusions
Financial benefits that have your back
- Performance-based rewards tailored to your role, from company-wide bonuses to OTE and commission structures
- Income protection: up to 75% salary for 5 years if you ever need it
Grow your career with us
- SkillsHub learning platform with leadership pathways, future-manager training, and a huge online library
- Access to external training and apprenticeships
Making a Difference
- MatchIt! Fundraise for a cause close to your heart and OneAdvanced will match part of the funding
- Pennies from Heaven donate the pennies from your pay check to help make a difference without lifting a finger
Plus plenty other flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle on our RewardHub, including:
- ULEV car scheme with 1,000+ models
- Dental insurance, Health Cash Plan, Critical Illness Cover, Partner Life Cover
CIPD Requirement
Closing Date
At OneAdvanced, we are at the forefront of delivering sector-focused technology solutions that simplify complexity, drive meaningful progress, and help build a fairer, more inclusive society.
We’re much more than a software company. We deliver SaaS workflow applications and IT services that power organisations across Education, Government, Healthcare, Legal, Manufacturing, Housing, Retail, and more.
OneAdvanced is one of the UK’s largest business software and services companies. Based in Birmingham (The Mailbox), operating across the UK, Ireland, India, and Australia.
Our secure, scalable platform, including OneAdvanced AI, our private AI service for UK organisations, powers connectivity and innovation across critical sectors. Alongside our software are our IT services, including hosting, managed services, and application modernisation.
We strive to create an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and collaboration, championing diverse perspectives and ideas. Our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy is embedded in everything we do, guiding us to create meaningful impact for our people, our customers and the planet.