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Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates to fill the following position available in the Human Resources function in Blantyre:

Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Reporting to: Head of Human Resources

The Senior Human Resources Business Partner is a strategic leadership role responsible for partnering Executive and Senior Leaders to translate business strategy into forward-looking people, leadership, and workforce plans. The role provides trusted counsel on organisational design, talent, succession, and culture, ensuring sustainable capability and long-term organisational effectiveness.

This role operates with significant autonomy and authority within the assigned business area and is expected to influence executive decision-making through insight, judgement, and strong governance discipline.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic HR Business Partnering & People Planning

• Lead the development and execution of strategic people and workforce plans aligned to business and financial objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organisational design, leadership effectiveness, and capability strategy.
• Identify future workforce and leadership risks and recommend proactive, strategic interventions.
• Translate business strategy into robust workforce, succession, and capability plans.
• Provide data-driven insights and commercial judgement to inform executive decisions.

Talent, Succession & Capability Management

• Own and drive the end-to-end talent and succession strategy for the business area.
• Ensure critical role coverage and leadership pipeline sustainability.
• Drive performance differentiation and clarity around expectations and outcomes.
• Partner with Learning & Development to design targeted capability interventions.

Culture & Leadership Effectiveness

• Act as steward of a high-performance, accountable culture.
• Influence leadership behaviours and reinforce organisational values.
• Identify and address systemic cultural or capability issues at root-cause level.
• Support leadership teams in building engaged, effective, and aligned teams.
• Ensure recruitment strategy aligns to long-term capability and succession priorities.
• Lead workforce planning with appropriate governance and controls.
• Challenge structural growth and promote sustainable organisational design.
• Partner with leaders on senior and leadership appointments to ensure quality and rigour.

Employee Relations & Risk Management

• Lead complex employee relations matters in line with policy and employment legislation.
• Provide practical, risk-aware guidance to leaders on disciplinary, grievance, and conduct issues.
• Identify recurring trends and escalate systemic people risks appropriately.

Technical Skills & Competencies

• Strong executive presence and influencing capability
• Advanced commercial and business acumen
• Strategic workforce and organisational design expertise
• Data-driven decision-making
• Sound judgement, integrity, and governance discipline

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related discipline.
• 8–12+ years progressive HR experience, including substantial HR Business Partnering exposure.
• Proven experience partnering at Executive or Senior Leadership level.
• Demonstrated success in delivering strategic people, talent, and succession initiatives.
• Experience in a regulated, complex, or financial services environment preferred.

• Lead the development and execution of strategic people and workforce plans aligned to business and financial objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organisational design, leadership effectiveness, and capability strategy.
• Identify future workforce and leadership risks and recommend proactive, strategic interventions.
• Translate business strategy into robust workforce, succession, and capability plans.
• Provide data-driven insights and commercial judgement to inform executive decisions.
• Own and drive the end-to-end talent and succession strategy for the business area.
• Ensure critical role coverage and leadership pipeline sustainability.
• Drive performance differentiation and clarity around expectations and outcomes.
• Partner with Learning & Development to design targeted capability interventions.
• Act as steward of a high-performance, accountable culture.
• Influence leadership behaviours and reinforce organisational values.
• Identify and address systemic cultural or capability issues at root-cause level.
• Support leadership teams in building engaged, effective, and aligned teams.
• Ensure recruitment strategy aligns to long-term capability and succession priorities.
• Lead workforce planning with appropriate governance and controls.
• Challenge structural growth and promote sustainable organisational design.
• Partner with leaders on senior and leadership appointments to ensure quality and rigour.
• Lead complex employee relations matters in line with policy and employment legislation.
• Provide practical, risk-aware guidance to leaders on disciplinary, grievance, and conduct issues.
• Identify recurring trends and escalate systemic people risks appropriately.

• Strong executive presence and influencing capability
• Advanced commercial and business acumen
• Strategic workforce and organisational design expertise
• Data-driven decision-making
• Sound judgement, integrity, and governance discipline

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related discipline.
• 8–12+ years progressive HR experience, including substantial HR Business Partnering exposure.
• Proven experience partnering at Executive or Senior Leadership level.
• Demonstrated success in delivering strategic people, talent, and succession initiatives.
• Experience in a regulated, complex, or financial services environment preferred.