Senior HR Business Partner - 3 month FTC

Are you a commercially minded Senior HR Business Partner with a background in retail and a passion for partnering with operations? Are you looking to take the next step in your HR career, leading a team and driving people strategy in a fast-paced, evolving environment? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

This is a full-time position, initially offered on a 3 month fixed-term contract basis and offers hybrid working.

We're seeking an experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join this dynamic People team, providing expert HR support to retail operations. With a strong understanding of the retail environment, you'll act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, helping shape and implement people strategies that support business growth and transformation.

You'll also have responsibility for managing a small team of HR professionals, supporting their development and ensuring the delivery of high quality, proactive HR support across the business.

• Build strong, strategic relationships with retail leaders.
• Translate business needs into effective people plans aligned with organisational goals.
• Coach and influence leaders on all aspects of people management, performance, and engagement.
• Lead on organisational design, change management, and workforce planning initiatives.
• Support talent development, succession planning, and leadership capability across functions.
• Oversee employee relations cases, ensuring fair, consistent, and commercially balanced outcomes.
• Line manage and develop a small HR team, ensuring high standards of service delivery.
• Use HR data and insights to drive continuous improvement and inform decision making.

• Proven HRBP experience in a retail environment or similar.
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to align people strategies with business priorities.
• Confident stakeholder manager with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Demonstrated experience in team management, with a passion for developing others.
• Comfortable navigating fast paced, change oriented environments.
• CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience) with up to date knowledge of UK employment law.

• A collaborative and people first culture where your voice is heard.
• The opportunity to influence and shape the people agenda in a growing business.
• A competitive salary and benefits package.
• Hybrid working with flexibility to support work life balance.
• A real opportunity to make an impact.

If this sounds like your next move, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a brief cover note outlining your suitability for the role.

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Morgan Philips Group is a global talent solutions business that disrupts conventional thinking in executive search, recruitment and talent consulting. We operate in over 20 markets in Europe, North & South America, Asia, and the Middle East & Africa. We understand that the future is digital and social, so we embrace the latest technology, including video ads and CVs, as well as social recruiting. Our innovative services are tailored to the new world of work yet we do not lose sight of the fact that employees be they existing and potential are ultimately human beings.

We are committed to ensuring that all job applicants are treated equally, without discrimination because of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.