Senior People Partner

**About You**

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role within our organisation, driving strategic people initiatives and collaborating closely with senior leadership? We are seeking a professional dynamic individual to join our team as a Senior People Partner, where you will play a key role in shaping our business strategy and organisational culture.

To succeed in this role, you will have extensive experience in senior-level people management, ideally in a dynamic, commercial setting. You should possess the credibility and influence to establish strong, collaborative relationships with senior leadership and key stakeholders. A proactive, strategic approach, coupled with a focus on organizational delivery, is crucial for overcoming complex challenges and achieving results. Additionally, maintaining a high standard of ethics and confidentiality is essential.

Your understanding of employment law, people metrics and good practice will enable you to influence and drive our people plan; from employee relations to talent and engagement and empowering a high-performance culture.

**Benefits**

**Financial**:

- Competitive salary and bonus scheme
- Choice of Company Car or Car Allowance
- Company pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Professional Subscriptions paid for

**Lifestyle/Health & Wellbeing**:

- 24 days holiday (rising to 28) plus Bank Holidays
- 2 fully paid volunteering days per year (supported by the McCarthy Stone Foundation)
- Health benefits such as Private Healthcare (Employee only), Remote GP, 24/7 access to EAP Services (including counsellors and legal advisors) and eyecare voucher
- Cycle to work scheme
- Colleagues Benefit Booklet with a range of store offers discounts and promotions
- Family Friendly Policies
- Excellent development opportunities

**The Role**

As a trusted partner to our Senior Leadership Team (SLT), you will provide strategic guidance and support, acting as a coach and mentor to foster effective leadership and people management practices across our London and South East Division.

You will be instrumental in leading a culture of performance excellence, embedding clear goals and feedback mechanisms to drive business improvement and your expertise in employment regulations and change management will be essential in driving organisational efficiency and managing cultural shifts.

You will drive, influence, advise and support the cultural and people aspects of organisation change, structures, people processes and business improvement to improve business efficiency. Acting as a champion and role model for culture and values across the organisation you will ensure people initiatives are effective in embedding and reinforcing values and that leaders are ambassadors.

We have adopted a hybrid way of working which typically requires typically requiring 2 to 3 days per week in our divisional office in Hatfield, with the rest of the time spent working from home or attending off site meetings.

**Your Attributes**

**You will have**:

- Delivery focused and able to demonstrate skills within a highly matrixed and people partner model
- Leadership and people management skills, balancing the strategic and practical operational people agenda.
- Adept at communicating, influencing, coaching, educating, challenging, and managing senior stakeholders.
- Proven gravitas to play a prominent role in relationships with senior management and other stakeholders
- Strong understanding of the HR and Legal requirements.
- Strong understanding of a project management approach and change management.
- Computer literate with sound knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes
- Able to interpret data and use this to spot trends and make considered decisions quickly.

**You will bring**:

- Consistent delivery record and strong commercial acumen
- Personally accountable - a high achieving, target driven and self-motivated individual who can make things happen
- A strong team player who is happy to roll up their sleeves to get things done.
- Able to maintain composure and operate effectively in a pressurised environment.
- Sound judgement and common sense
- Be able to spot and bring on talent
- Able to lead, manage and embed changeAs the UK’s leading developer and manager of retirement communities, we provide high quality homes to exacting specifications. As of November 2021, McCarthy Stone operates 475 developments across the UK for more than 20,000 people.

We believe in championing the role, wellbeing and happiness of older people in society. We help our customers have a better later life, so they feel more connected, recognised and valued than ever. In late 2020 we launched the McCarthy Stone Charitable Foundation to support local causes that help older people in need across Britain.

We are proud to have been certified as a Great Place to Work 2022 as well as making the Great Place to Work Wellbeing list