Level: 4
Location: London (Hybrid - 3 to 4 days in office)
Department: HR
Contract: Permanent
As an HR Business Partner at Quilter, you will play a strategic and consultive role, partnering with senior leaders to support the alignment and delivery of the and people strategy with business objectives. This is a dynamic and influential position that blends strategic insight with hands-on partnership, enabling you to drive meaningful change and support our colleagues in achieving their full potential.
You’ll work closely with senior leaders and stakeholders to understand business priorities and translate them into people-focused solutions. Whether it’s workforce planning, talent development, organisational design, or change management, you’ll be at the heart of decision-making, offering expert guidance and challenge where needed.
The HRBP is instrumental in driving organisational performance, fostering a high performance culture and ensuring regulatory compliance across all HR practices.
Your responsibilities will include:
Strategic People Partnering: Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, providing expert guidance on talent, performance, and organisational effectiveness.
Culture & Engagement: Champion a culture of excellence, integrity, and inclusion, ensuring alignment with our values and client promise.
Talent & Succession Planning: Identify and develop key talent pipelines, with a focus on leadership capability and retention of critical roles.
Performance Enablement: Drive a high-performance culture through coaching, feedback, and structured review processes.
Reward & Recognition: Support year-end compensation planning, ensuring alignment with performance and market benchmarks.
Organisational Effectiveness: Lead people aspects of change programmes, ensuring smooth transitions and adoption of new ways of working. Drive organisational design, change management and optimisation initiatives. Act as a change agent to facilitate smooth transitions and mitigate resistance.
Data-Driven Insight: Use people analytics to inform decisions, track progress, and identify opportunities for improvement. Leveraging workday capability, provide regular reporting and insights to business leaders. Promote a data mindset within the business to drive evidence-based decisions.
Inclusion & Wellbeing: Partner with our I&D team to embed inclusive practices and promote wellbeing across high-pressure environments. Champion diversity, equity and inclusion across the business.
Reward & Performance: Support compensation planning and advise on reward strategies aligned with compliance and market benchmarks.
Governance & Risk: Ensure HR practices meet regulatory standards and contribute to internal governance forums.
Stakeholder Influence: Collaborate across HR, Finance, Compliance, and Transformation to deliver joined-up solutions.
Proven experience as an HR Business Partner or HR Generalist ideally in financial services or regulated environment.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior levels. Evidence of strong stakeholder management is essential
Sound understanding of employment law and regulatory frameworks.
Analytical mindset with confidence in interpreting HR data and metrics.
High levels of discretion and ethical judgement, particularly in sensitive or complex scenarios.
Commercial acumen .
Adaptability and resilience in a fast-paced, evolving business.
Experience supporting change initiatives and organisational transformation.
CIPD Level 5 or above (or equivalent qualification) preferred.
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Inclusion & Diversity
We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
Values
Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.
Core Benefits
Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only
In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.