Role title: People Business Partner
TPR grade & pay group: Core – Principal
Directorate: Chief Operating Officer (COO) Group
Salary: £63,089 per annum
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office
The Role And Responsibilities
As a People Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in shaping a positive, progressive people and culture experience across your assigned directorates. You’ll work closely with leaders and managers to co‑create an annual People Plan that supports organisational priorities and strengthens how colleagues work, develop and thrive. By using data and meaningful insight, you’ll help measure the impact of people initiatives and ensure they contribute to TPR’s wider purpose of keeping savers safe.
In this role, you’ll be a trusted partner and the main connection into the People Team—helping colleagues navigate a wide range of HR matters with clarity and confidence. You’ll collaborate closely with People Team specialists to deliver seamless, joined‑up solutions, while acting as an advocate for positive change across the organisation. You’ll also support People Managers with their learning and development, helping to build capability and nurture a culture of inclusion, respect and continuous improvement. This is a role where your work has real influence—strengthening both colleague experience and organisational outcomes.
This Role Is Ideal For Someone Who
- Enjoys building collaborative, trusting relationships and working alongside leaders to enable positive cultural change.
- Finds motivation in using insight and data to guide decisions and improve outcomes.
- Thrives in a role that balances strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery.
- Values continuous learning—for themselves and for the colleagues they support.
- Feels energised by working in a team where collective problem‑solving and shared purpose matter.
Essential Criteria
- Experience working as a generalist HR Business Partner.
- CIPD Level 7 qualification or equivalent.
- Ability to build strong partnering relationships at all levels, including with ExCo leaders.
- Ability to manage workload, prioritise effectively and make balanced decisions.
- Ability to work tactically and operationally while keeping sight of strategic goals.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Commitment to personal development and growth.
- Experience partnering internally and externally with relevant departments or industries.
The Team
Our People team is here to support TPR in achieving the ambitious goals we have for the future. We aim to do this by maximising our employer and employee value through the partnering and service we provide to our organisation through talent acquisition, employee onboarding and the employee lifecycle, talent management, total rewards, employee experience and culture, and people and organisation development.
TPR Offers
- Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
- A values‑led, inclusive environment.
- Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
- A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).
Reward And Benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full‑time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Find Out What Benefits a Civil Service Pension Provides.
Our Culture
TPR strives to be a high‑performing organisation, and we prioritise our people’s growth and well‑being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We’re proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision‑making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.
Find out more about us.
Applications
To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.
Selection and Interview
If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.
Further Information
Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.
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