Strategic People Business Partner

Are you an experienced strategic People professional who can turn organisational priorities into practical workforce solutions, influence at senior level, and use evidence to shape complex decisions?

We’re looking for a Strategic People Business Partner to join TfGM’s People Directorate. Working closely with senior leaders, you’ll provide strategic advice and constructive challenge, shape and deliver people priorities, and lead complex organisational change and strategic People activity.

Your Role

As Strategic People Business Partner, you’ll be the senior People interface for an allocated function, working directly with our Exec team, building trusted relationships with senior leaders while providing independent, evidence-based advice and challenge.

You’ll translate business priorities into workforce, organisational design, leadership, capability, culture, inclusion, and colleague priorities. You’ll use workforce analytics and organisational insight to identify risks and opportunities, lead complex change and transformation, and bring together expertise from across our specialist People teams and wider corporate functions to deliver joined-up solutions.

For more info see Job Profile below.

Who are we?

You’ll join TfGM’s People Directorate, working across our People teams and alongside senior leaders throughout the organisation.

This is an opportunity to influence people priorities at a strategic level, contributing to workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, transformation, leadership capability, inclusion, culture, and colleague experience. You’ll work collaboratively across organisational boundaries, bringing together the right expertise to support the delivery of TfGM’s priorities.

What you'll bring

You’ll bring extensive senior People/HR business partnering experience gained in a large, complex, unionised organisation, with a strong track record of influencing and constructively challenging senior leaders.

You’ll have significant experience of translating business strategy into people and workforce plans, leading organisational change and strategic People programmes, and using workforce insight to influence decisions. You’ll combine strong organisational design and workforce planning capability with commercial awareness, sound employment relations knowledge, and excellent communication skills.

A relevant degree or equivalent experience, and MCIPD/FCIPD or equivalent are essential.

What we can offer you

This is an opportunity to have a strategic impact across TfGM, working alongside senior leaders on complex workforce, organisational, and transformation priorities.

This is a permanent role with a salary of £61,586 - £69,319 per annum depending on skills and experience.

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process. We are happy to #talkflexibleworking to help colleagues maintain a healthy work life balance.

Our benefits include:

• Generous annual leave starting at 28 days (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with options to buy more.
• Free travel on buses across Greater Manchester, plus rail or Metrolink travel for your commute, and access to our Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme.
• Local Government defined pension scheme with life cover of 3x salary and options to boost your contributions.
• Enhanced family-friendly leave policies, including those supporting fertility treatment, alongside flexible and hybrid working and a special leave policy to support a range of unexpected events. Please note that qualification criteria may apply, including a requirement to have been employed with the organisation for a minimum specified period of time.
• Discover more benefits including wellbeing support, Personal and Career Development, Flexible working, financial support and more on our website

What's next?

Please submit your CV and cover letter demonstrating how your experience meets the essential requirements of the role. Please note if you do not upload a cover letter, you will not be shortlisted.

Our shortlisting process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

NOTE TO AGENCIES – we will be accepting direct applications only for this role. No fee will be paid if a candidate is hired for this position as a result of an unsolicited agency or search firm referral CV.