HR Business Partner - 12 months FTC

Position Description

At CGI, our HR professionals play a pivotal role in shaping business success, supporting complex transformation programmes and enabling our people to thrive. As an HR Business Partner for 12 months fixed term contract, specialising in bids, transitions and organisational change, you’ll influence major business opportunities, lead people-focused transformation and help deliver successful outcomes for our clients. Working alongside senior leaders and collaborative teams, you’ll have the autonomy to shape innovative HR solutions, navigate complex workforce challenges and make a lasting impact across our UK business. With opportunities to develop your expertise and contribute to high-profile programmes, you’ll be empowered to take ownership of meaningful work while benefiting from a supportive community of professionals.

CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go.

Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Manage HR business development and transition activities across the UK business including identifying any additional resource needs
• Design and shape the HR solution to support the technical proposal or bid (e.g. workforce planning, cost analysis, risk analysis and employment law aspects)
• Responsible for all HR aspects of proposals and bids including calculating all HR costs (e.g. redundancy and pension costs), contract schedule review and negotiation, writing proposal responses, design and delivery of detailed HR transition plans in line with the technical solution and client requirements
• Advise and influence senior managers and key stakeholders
• Project manage TUPE transfers in and out which may include multiple parties and multiple transition dates
• Lead TUPE consultation with employee representatives and/or trade unions
• Plan and lead any associated restructuring programmes
• Attend client debriefs and use this information to plan for future propositions
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

The ideal person for this role will have proven experience in a similar role within an IT outsourcing or IT consultancy organisation and will therefore have a good understanding of how IT proposal and bid processes work in both the private and public sector. You will have proven experience of managing the people related elements of proposals and bids from start to finish. This will include shaping the HR solution, calculating costs, identifying and costing risks, proposal writing, negotiating contract schedules, designing HR transition plans, project managing TUPE transfers in and out and where appropriate leading redundancy programmes.

Essential skills/experience includes:

• excellent knowledge of the TUPE Regulations and other associated employment laws
• strong commercial acumen
• TUPE transfer and merger and acquisition experience
• experience across public and private sectors
• experience of identifying and managing risks associated with the HR elements of TUPE transitions
• excellent proposal writing skills
• an ability to juggle multiple projects all at different stages including working to multiple deadlines
• strong stakeholder management experience
• strong transformational and cultural change programme skills
• experience of working with trade unions
• ability to travel including occasional overnight stays
  
  

Other Desirable Experience/skills

• experience of playing a key role in commercial/legal negotiations
• awareness of New Fair Deal for Pensions within the Public Sector
  
  

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.