People Business Partner

Contract: This is a 12 month fixed term contract, covering maternity leave.

Closing date: 21st February

Interview date: 11th March

We are looking for a strategic People Business Partner to join our passionate team and help shape an inclusive, high-performing culture. If you’re a strategic HR professional who thrives on collaboration, transformation, and making a real impact, this could be the perfect role for you.

As a People Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in delivering directorate-specific people plans that align with the Society’s overarching strategy. Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll drive key people initiatives, champion organisational change, and help build leadership capability. You will be the critical link between our People teams and the business, ensuring alignment between people priorities and organisational needs.

With accountability for all people delivery activities within your directorate, you will also work closely with the Employee Relations and Change team, and our People Delivery team, ensuring consistency and quality in people support.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute directorate people plans that align with strategic priorities, ensuring a seamless and impactful People function.
• Act as a trusted advisor by providing expert guidance on people strategies, talent development, and employee experience while proactively addressing people challenges.
• Leverage data-driven insights to inform decision-making, drive organisational effectiveness, and embed a culture of inclusion, continuous learning, and high performance.
• Collaborate with senior leaders and the wider People team to create a cohesive, value-adding approach that enhances the overall employee experience.

About you

We’re looking for a strategic and proactive people professional, passionate about creating a great employee experience and someone who:

• Has strong partnering skills, with the ability to influence, coach, and challenge senior stakeholders.
• Can confidently use people data and insights to inform strategies and decision-making.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and enjoys working across teams to drive positive change.
• Is aligned with our values: Determined to make a difference, a Trusted Expert, Better Together, and Compassionate.

You’ll be an inspiring coach, a strategic thinker, and a natural collaborator. Above all, you’ll be passionate about helping people thrive and ensuring inclusivity is at the heart of everything we do.

Additional Information

This is a homeworking role, but you may be required to travel to attend meetings, events and team-days, so you must reside in the UK, have the correct right to work documents to work in the UK and be comfortable/willing to travel to our offices (usually London or Birmingham) if/when required.

Alzheimer’s Society is committed to equal opportunities.

Alzheimer’s Society embraces diversity, inclusion and accessibility for all of our people. We are committed to building a diverse organisation that represents the communities we serve and ensuring inclusion in everything we do.

This means ensuring our recruitment processes are barrier-free and inclusive as possible to everyone. We will make adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition.

If you would like us to do anything differently during the application process, please contact us at careers@alzheimers.org.uk