Senior People Partner

London (3 days a week in office), occasional travel to Slough

QA are seeking an accomplished and strategic HR professional with over 10 years of experience driving people initiatives in fast-paced, high-growth environments. You will have a proven track record of partnering with senior leadership to align people strategy with business goals, enhance employee experience, and lead change management across diverse functions. Adept at navigating complex organisational structures, implementing performance and engagement frameworks, and fostering inclusive workplace cultures.  

Role Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with leaders to understand and analyse people challenges, and develop commercially focused People plans to maximise employee engagement and organisational sustainability
• Manage complex employee relations issues, mediating and resolving conflict when necessary
• Lead on the people aspects of business transformation and change initiatives, ensuring effective organisational design and modes of working Identify gaps in internal capabilities and performance and build strategic recruitment and development plans to achieve desired business results
• Oversee effective implementation of all annual cycle events working with the People Operations, Talent and Experience team
• Project manage key People initiatives alongside the People Experience Managers
• Advise and coach leaders and managers on People policies & practices and interpersonal skills
• Champion organisation values and culture ensuring they are clearly communicated and contribute to a positive work environment
• Flexibility - some travel to other sites within the UK will be required

Your Experience/Skills:

• Many successes in delivering stated business objectives through effective business partnering
• Managing multiple stakeholders, sometimes with conflicting agendas, and facilitating teams to deliver group objectives
• Sound talent management and workforce planning experience
• Exposure to TUPE and post-close integration activity would be advantageous
• Experience across multiple organisations with some blue-chip exposure in recent past
• Generalist knowledge base, with strengths in change and/or talent management
• In depth working knowledge of current employment law

About QA

At QA, we believe the future belongs to organisations that are able to learn, master and apply new skills at pace and scale. As the largest tech training company in the UK and the fastest-growing in the US, we partner with 96% of the FTSE and most of the Fortune 500. We have served over 4,000 customers and 1+ million learners since 1985. 
 
We believe skills alone aren’t enough but need to be applied back to the business in order to effect change. We do this through tailored learning programmes that connect learning across an organisation’s siloes, create continuity for learners, and feature collaborative, cohort-based modalities to apply skills at pace and at scale. Our unique end-to-end learning solution draws from deep expertise across apprenticeships and instructor-led training, and self-paced learning. 

Taking time for ourselves is so important these days which is why we dedicate some of our benefits to support your health & wellbeing. These include: 27 days holiday each year, holiday buying scheme, Medicash plan, Gympass, Cycle to Work scheme, Employee Assistance Programme, and 2 days per year charity leave.

 
We are an equal opportunity employer, focused on promoting a welcoming and inclusive environment.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. All applicants with a disability who fulfil the role criteria will be progressed to the next stage of the process. Please let us know what reasonable adjustment, if any, you require.

If this is what you’re looking for, here are the next steps:

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Please find out more about us at https://www.qa.com/about/careers/