Senior HR & Business Partner

Job title: Senior HR & Business Partner
Job Type: Contract
IR35 Status: Inside IR35
Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months
Pay rate: Market Led
Location: Bristol
Hours of work: 40 Hours Per Week - 3 Days Required in Office/ 2 days WFH

Role information:
As the Senior HR & BP, you will be central to building a robust, compliant, and people focused HR framework for a growing engineering consultancy. You will partner closely with the UK Managing Director and the Business Area Head of HR, you will lead the full HR scope for the UK perimeter while ensuring alignment with UK employment law and client governance.

Your initial priority will be strong HR Business Partnering: supporting managers, enhancing employee experience, and strengthening day to day HR operations. Alongside this, you will shape and implement the HR processes, tools, and policies needed for a consistent and high quality people experience across the organisation.

Responsibilities will include:
- Partnering with managers on organisational, performance, and people-related matters
- Leading employee relations, ensuring fair, timely, and compliant outcomes
- Supporting workforce planning, role design, and team development
- Driving a positive, engaging employee experience across all touchpoints
- Develop, maintain, and implement HR policies and procedures for the UK perimeter
- Ensuring strict compliance with UK employment legislation and client standards
- Managing HR data, reporting, and contributions to global dashboards
- Supporting audits, ethics processes, and internal compliance reviews
- Supporting hiring managers with role definition and selection approaches
- Partnering with the Recruitment Manager to ensure alignment with HR policies and headcount governance
- Ensure a consistent, high quality onboarding and induction experience
- Coordinate UK inputs for annual salary reviews, job evaluations, and benchmarking
- Ensuring accurate employee lifecycle administration and payroll related data
- Acting as a point of contact for UK employees regarding HR and benefits queries
- Benchmark compensation and benefits to maintain market competitiveness -
- Coordinate performance, talent, and development cycles
- Support identification of training needs and create L&D action plans
- Monitor completion of mandatory learning for the UK workforce
- Partner with University and Academy on training initiatives
- Supporting people related social value commitments for bids and projects
- Promoting diversity, wellbeing, inclusion, and ethical behaviour in line with client values
- Contributing to early career pathways and community engagement activities

Qualifications/Experience
- CIPD Level 5 Essential - (CIPD Level 7 Desirable)
- Degree in HR, Business, Law - Preferred
- Strong HR generalist or HR BP experience in engineering, consultancy, or other highly regulated sectors
- Excellent understanding of UK employment law
- Experience working in international or matrix environments
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence at all levels
- A proactive mindset, structured approach, and commitment to continuous improvement

Please note all candidates MUST be eligible to work in the UK.

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Company information:
This contract is being advertised by Rullion Ltd.
Since 1978, Rullion has been securing exceptional candidates for a range of clients; from large well-known brands, to SMEs and start-ups. As a family-owned business, Rullion's approach is credible and honest, focused on building long-lasting relationships with both clients and candidates.

Rullion is a forward-thinking recruitment company that specialises in providing a wide range of talent consultancy services to a diverse client base; from small start-ups to large household names.
We celebrate and support diversity and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.