HR Business Partner

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We are seeking a HR Business Partner to strategically align with our Leadership Teams of a growing 1200+ headcount business. This role will require experience in influencing senior leaders to devise and deliver an industry leading people strategy. You will collaborate with colleagues across the UK&I HR Team to deliver on businesses requirements and strategy. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Partnering:

Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the UK&I Business Line Leadership Team.

Provide data-driven insights and thought leadership to influence and shape business decisions from a people perspective.

Collaborate with senior leaders to design and execute talent strategies that align with commercial objectives.

• Leadership Coaching & HRM Support:

Coach and develop HR Managers (HRMs) in the region, ensuring they are equipped to support their respective areas effectively.

Support senior leaders through individual coaching, helping them build leadership effectiveness and lead high-performing teams.

Champion a culture of talent management by embedding career planning and development into regular leadership conversations and team priorities.

• Talent, Succession & Performance:

Lead the delivery of cyclical HR processes including talent reviews, succession planning, and performance management.

Ensure career development and internal mobility are front-of-mind in talent discussions, with clear and actionable plans for key talent segments.

Partner with the Talent CoE to ensure robust plans are in place to identify, retain, and develop top talent.

• Reward & Recognition:

Partner with the Reward CoE to deliver annual reward processes effectively in-region.

Ensure alignment between reward strategies and performance/talent outcomes.

• CoE Integration & Alignment:

Act as the conduit between the business and HR CoEs (Talent, Reward, ER, Recruitment, etc.), ensuring initiatives are aligned to business priorities.

Connect the dots across HR functions to ensure a cohesive and impactful approach.

• Drive Strategic Conversations:

Lead conversations that challenge the status quo, focusing on the "big ticket" items that will deliver maximum ROI for people initiatives.

Translate business needs into actionable HR strategies with clear success metrics.

• Cross-Business & Cross-Country Impact:

Identify and lead strategic HR projects that span multiple business lines or countries, ensuring scalable solutions that drive regional consistency and impact.

Champion collaboration across geographies and functions to tackle shared challenges and accelerate results.

• HR Functional Evolution:

Support the evolution of the HR function by promoting a problem-solving mindset and structured project management approach.

Play a key role in enabling HR to shift from transactional delivery to strategic change leadership, with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes and long-term business value.

• Proven HR Business Partnering experience within a complex global matrix organisation, ideally supporting senior leadership teams.

• Demonstrated success in working with HR Centres of Expertise (CoEs) to leverage expertise, data, and tools that address business challenges and deliver measurable impact.

• Strong track record of coaching and influencing senior leaders, with a focus on leadership effectiveness, talent development, and culture transformation.

• Comfortable using data and analytics to drive strategic conversations and support decision-making.

• Experience leading or contributing to cross-functional, cross-country HR projects or initiatives that resulted in scalable, high-impact outcomes.

• Skilled in delivering HR processes such as Talent Management, Succession Planning, Performance and Reward, with a focus on business alignment and ROI.

Key Competencies:

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills – able to simplify complex ideas and influence stakeholders at all levels.

• Strategic and operational agility – able to zoom out for big-picture thinking and zoom in to deliver actionable solutions.

• Curious and solutions-oriented – motivated to understand the business and challenge the status quo.

• Comfortable with ambiguity – thrives in dynamic environments with shifting priorities.

• Data-driven – confident using data to shape narrative and support problem solving, but equally skilled at storytelling and engaging diverse audiences.

• Strong project management skills – able to plan, lead, and deliver HR initiatives with clear scope, milestones, stakeholder engagement, and measurable outcomes.

• Relationship builder and collaborator – connects the dots across teams, geographies, and functions to drive alignment and impact.

• Change leader mindset – embraces transformation, continuous improvement, and building for the future.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you're working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We're the world's trusted global infrastructure firm, and we're in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you'll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.