Lead Specialist, HR Business Partner

About the role

Were looking for an exceptional Senior HR Business Partner to join our People team at a pivotal moment in our transformation journey. Pearson School Qualifications (PSQ) is a successful growing businesswith 1400 colleagues across the UK and international markets. With a bold people agenda and major strategic programmes underway this role will play a critical part in shaping the future of our organisation.

Youll partner with senior leaders across PSQ and Global HR driving highimpact people initiatives leading crossbusiness programmes and supporting organisational transformation across multiple technical and customerfacing functions. This is a role for someone who brings pace expertise and a proactive mindset someone who can elevate the capability of the HR team and deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Location: This is a hybrid role and candidates should be flexible to work from either or central London or Manchester offices.

What Youll Be Doing

Youll play a key role in shaping and delivering our people strategy across PSQ and Assessment & Qualifications working closely with senior leaders and supporting approximately 500 colleagues. Your work will span strategic partnering major transformation programmes and longterm capability building.

Key responsibilities include:

• Partnering with senior leadership to provide proactive commercially focused HR advice that influences organisational decisions.
• Building strong trusted relationships at VP and executive level acting as a strategic advisor across PSQ and A&Q.
• Leading and embedding core People & Culture initiatives such as Career Architecture Enhanced Performance Management Leadership Uplift Talent Pearson Promise and broader performance culture programmes.
• Taking ownership of largescale A&Q people initiatives.
• Developing a more strategic insightdriven approach to engagement that drives longterm cultural improvement.
• Strengthening workforce planning capability by forecasting future skills building talent pipelines and reducing reliance on reactive restructuring.

What Were Looking For

Experience & Expertise

• Significant HR Business Partnering experience in a complex fastpaced organisation
• Proven ability to lead largescale people programmes endtoend
• Strong organisational design workforce planning and change management capability
• Experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing at VP/Executive level
• Comfortable working across technical customerfacing and global teams

Skills & Behaviours

Were looking for someone who is:

• Proactive anticipates needs and takes initiative
• Commercial understands business drivers and connects people strategy to outcomes
• Executionfocused delivers at pace with high quality
• Energetic and resilient thrives in transformation and ambiguity
• A true HR expert credible confident and solutionsoriented
• Project Management able to run programmes with clarity and structure

Why Join Us

This is a rare opportunity to influence the direction of a major business area shape the future of our people strategy and work on transformation programmes with real organisational impact. Youll join a passionate collaborative HR team and play a central role in delivering our strategic OKRs.

If youre an experienced HR leader who thrives in change enjoys partnering at a senior level and wants to make a meaningful difference wed love to hear from you.