People Business Partner - 12 Month FTC

Advert Close date: 24th July 2025

Purpose of Role: The role acts as a partner to leaders across Business Units and Group Partners to execute the people strategy that supports growth and performance in line with TCE strategy, vision and goals. This role delivers excellent strategic, operational and cultural people practices across specified Business Units, Group Partners and the enterprise as a whole.

Main accountabilities:

• Work with our leaders to define people priorities that align with the experience we want to create for our people
• Provide business insight to P&C and P&C insight to business, create activities that improve the employee lifecycle and position and market ideas so the business understands the benefits of existing and new initiatives
• Work with the wider P&C team and business to co-design the right people products/initiatives
• Plan, forecast, coordinate and broker P&C activity (oversee delivery by calling upon the services of others)
• Lead discussions and support the implementation around change and transformation
• Deliver products that encourage our people to take ownership of their own performance, careers and learning, but providing them with a range of different options, resources and experiences
• Work with leaders to identify and develop their talent and ensure we create as many career defining experiences for all our people e.g. learning resources, peer to peer learning, mentoring, job shadowing, projects etc.
• Own the employee life cycle and key People practices for the departments such as induction, workforce planning, reward and recognition, career progression, engagement survey action planning. Continually seek to identify opportunities for standardisation and efficiency to improve the service delivery
• Deliver Diversity and Inclusion interventions to raise awareness, encourage open and honest conversations and allow our people to be themselves at work
• Work with people managers to support them to identify, build relationships with and attract future talent
• Build our insight in how our people feel and what’s important to them
• Provide development for managers on how to facilitate team reviews, setting goals and measuring results and how to have regular and human conversations
• Work to create a seamless employee experience (with P&C team and other relevant functions).
• Support (manage?) P&C advisors and act as a point of escalation for sensitive, higher risk or complex ER cases

Most important skills based requirements:

• Extensive experience of being a trusted advisor and coach on all matters people and talent (Attraction & selection, comp, ER, talent, performance, succession etc.)
• Proven experience of leading significant change initiatives from OD through to consultation and team formation
• Employee Relations – proven experience of dealing with complex employee relations issues and evidence of reducing this.
• Digital acumen – experience of selecting, implementing and utilising great tech to better the employee experience (desirable)
• Managing diverse stakeholder relationships up to and including executive level
• Experience of the latest people & talent trends but in practical terms – not just a theory
• Excellent relationship building and communication, with the ability to move between listening to, guiding and coaching others at all levels
• Marketing, communication and presentation skills to facilitate projects, teams and initiatives
• Direct people management experience (desirable)

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK ( .

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on [email protected]