A fantastic opportunity for an experienced HR Business Partner to support Business Services in a leading international law firm on a 6 month FTC. You’ll partner senior stakeholders, provide pragmatic employee relations and advisory support, and deliver people initiatives in a regulated, high-performance environment.
Role Purpose
You’ll be the go-to HR partner for Business Services leaders, translating business needs into clear, deliverable people solutions. This is a hands-on role covering the full employee lifecycle, with strong stakeholder management and sound judgement at its core.
Key responsibilities
- Partner senior Business Services stakeholders as a trusted adviser and constructive challenger.
- Deliver people plans aligned to business goals, coordinating input from HR specialist teams.
- Lead on ER matters (including investigations), ensuring fair, consistent and compliant outcomes.
- Coach managers on performance, conduct, capability and organisational change.
- Drive key people projects and change activity, with clear stakeholder engagement.
- Support workforce planning, resourcing and talent/succession discussions where needed.
- Contribute to pay/bonus activity and reward decisions for relevant groups.
Compliance
- Work in line with UK employment law and internal policy.
- Operate within relevant professional/regulatory standards (including SRA principles where applicable).
About you
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience).
- Solid UK employment law knowledge and confident ER case management.
- Proven HRBP experience partnering senior stakeholders (professional services/regulatory environment preferred).
- Commercial, pragmatic and able to influence and challenge with credibility.
- Hands-on generalist across the employee lifecycle; comfortable with change and multiple priorities.
Equal Opportunities
As a responsible business, it is important that we represent the diversity of our people, our clients and our communities. We believe that the firms that thrive are those with the most diverse team; that's why we work so hard to source the best talent from the broadest pool possible. As an equal opportunities employer we strive to accommodate anyone who may have specific needs. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance.