AWE is recruiting a Senior HR Business Partner to play a crucial role in driving a high‑performance culture, leading organisational change, and enabling impactful leadership and talent management. The role operates as a strategic partner to senior leaders and is responsible for shaping and driving people plans that deliver business objectives in the short, medium and long‑term.
Location: Green Park, Reading. Free onsite parking. Regular travel to Aldermaston and Burghfield sites as required.
Package: From £61,040 (depending on suitability, qualifications, and level of experience).
Working pattern: AWE operates a 9‑day working fortnight. This role requires close working with the business stakeholders, with flexibility including hybrid working, typically 3 days onsite per week, agreed informally.
Responsibilities
- Act as a strategic partner and trusted adviser to senior leaders, coaching leaders to achieve high‑performance outcomes, and aligning people priorities with business strategy and enabling informed decision‑making.
- Develop, influence and deliver integrated, multi‑year people plans that support organisational objectives.
- Lead organisational design and organisational health activity, ensuring operating models, structures and capability are fit for future strategy.
- Shape and sponsor complex change initiatives, ensuring effective adoption and sustained outcomes.
- Champion business priorities within the People Function to influence strategy, service design and delivery.
- Drive senior‑level engagement with enterprise people programmes, operating models and cultural initiatives.
- Lead end‑to‑end talent and succession strategy, including capability building, skills planning and critical role coverage.
- Maximise talent brokerage, pipeline development and succession tools to build resilience and future capability.
- Own and evolve performance frameworks, embedding a high‑performance, outcome‑focused culture.
- Use insight, data and customer feedback to ensure the voice of the business informs People Function priorities and impact.
Qualifications and Skills
We’re seeking someone with strong Business Partnering expertise, proven experience leading organisational change and working with senior leaders in an engaging, credible and influential way to achieve the best business outcome.
We require a CIPD qualification, ideally Level 7, or an equivalent in experience and knowledge covering the full spectrum of the HR field. The role demands the ability to work calmly and constructively in a priority‑changing environment, manage one’s own workload with initiative, and bring enthusiasm and flexibility when delivering HR expertise to the business. Security clearance is required and must be obtained.
- Strong technical knowledge in restructure, redundancy and TUPE.
- Experience driving effective talent management and succession activity.
- Experience working with Trade Unions.
- Able to present with confidence when information is ambiguous.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Highly resilient and able to adapt to changing stakeholder needs.
Benefits
- 9‑day working fortnight – meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
- Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
- Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave – 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave – 4 Weeks Full Pay.
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
- Life Assurance (4 × annual salary).
- Discounts – access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
The role will require and support the necessary security clearance, funded by AWE. All applicants must be British Citizens residing in the UK for the past 5 years to qualify for Security Clearance and for 10 years to qualify for Defence Vetting. The role will close early if applications are high.
Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us. Our ambition is to create an inclusive workplace and we encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application.
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