Senior People Business Partner - UK

Summary of Role & Key Responsibilities

• Operational and Strategic Partnering: Act as a strategic people business partner to the UK leadership team. Translate global P&D initiatives from the Centres of Excellence into UK practice, adapting and implementing for UK regulations and cultural context.
• Organisational Effectiveness: Regularly review UK processes, policies and documentation. Identifying gaps and raising the current standards so they align with global frameworks and UK regulatory expectations. Drive automation where possible. 
• UK Payroll: Oversee delivery of UK payroll. Work with internal teams and external providers to maintain accuracy, compliance and timely processing.
• Employee Relations: Provide expert advice on UK employment law. Handle complex cases, maintaining a fair, consistent and legally compliant approach.
• Talent Development: Deliver globally defined leadership and capability programmes within the UK. Support UK leaders to apply these frameworks in a consistent way.
• Performance and Reward: Apply global performance and reward approaches in the UK. Align with Regional P&D Leads to ensure consistency and fairness across all regions.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Embed global DEI principles across the UK employee experience. Partner with our Global Employee Engagement Lead to support managers to apply these principles in everyday decisions. 
• Team Leadership: Manage a small team of People Business Partners. Provide coaching, mentoring and day-to-day support to help Business Partners develop capability and confidence.

Key Requirements, Skills Knowledge & Expertise

• Proven experience in a strategic people business partnering role, within professional services and/or brand/comms agency environments. 
• Experience of collaborating effectively in a global, matrixed organisation.
• Experience of designing and driving employee engagement initiatives. 
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong attention to detail is essential. 
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving change.
• Experience of managing a small team. 
• Passionate about sustainability and purpose-driven work.

Benefits

• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company 
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team 
• Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients 
• Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME’s who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have 
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis 
• Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills 
• Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday! 
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. 
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.