HR Business Partner
UK regional offices (excluding London) | Permanent
Our standard working hours are 35 hours a week, Monday to Friday. We operate a 3 days in the office, 2 days from home working model. As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider flexible working requests.
Exceptional by design. A career where you can make a meaningful impact on our people and business.
The opportunity
Join a team where your expertise truly matters. Pinsent Masons is looking for an HR Business Partner (known internally as Group HR Business Partner) to join our HR and Learning team to support our Finance and Projects Practice Group.
Working closely with the Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll provide proactive and commercially focused HR support across the Practice Group and wider business. You’ll act as a trusted adviser to partners, line managers and senior stakeholders, building influential relationships and developing a strong understanding of the teams you support.
This is a broad, hands-on role covering the full employee lifecycle. You’ll balance strategic business partnering with operational delivery, including employee relations, talent and performance management, recruitment support, reporting, administration and HR data analysis. This role can be based out of any of our UK offices, excluding London, though semi regular travel to London will be required.
At Pinsent Masons, your career is exceptional by design - intentionally shaped to support high performance, meaningful development and long-term progression.
What you’ll do
Bring your experience to the table and play a key role in the success of our firm, building trusted relationships and delivering meaningful impact, including:
- Build trusted relationships with partners, line managers and senior stakeholders, providing credible HR advice, constructive challenge and practical support.
- Work with the Senior HR Business Partner to understand business priorities and deliver people plans, talent initiatives, career mapping and promotion processes.
- Support performance review and moderation activity, coach managers and oversee performance improvement plans to encourage excellence and consistency.
- Manage employee relations matters, including sickness absence, flexible working, grievances, disciplinary processes and other complex or sensitive cases.
- Partner with specialist teams to support recruitment, new starters, probation reviews, reward activity, learning and development, trainees and newly qualified lawyers.
- Produce reports, interpret HR data, conduct exit interviews and take ownership of the administration and operational activity required to deliver a responsive HR service.
What you’ll bring
To thrive in this role, you'll need to bring:
- Extensive generalist HR experience, with strong employee relations knowledge and experience managing cases through to resolution.
- Proven business partnering experience within professional services or a similarly complex, matrix organisation.
- Experience advising and influencing partners, line managers and senior stakeholders on HR policies, procedures and people matters.
- Strong technical HR knowledge, including a good understanding of employment legislation and current best practice.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building, organisation and problem-solving skills, with a proactive and commercially aware approach.
- Strong IT and analytical skills, particularly in Microsoft Excel, alongside a willingness to undertake detailed administration, reporting and ad hoc data work.
Why Pinsent Masons
Our “exceptional by design” approach means we’ve deliberately shaped a firm where you can do your best work. We combine meaningful work, clear expectations and the support to build a career that works for you. Why join us?
Meaningful work, real impact – the opportunity to contribute to initiatives and projects that have a genuine impact on our clients and the success of a leading international law firm.
A firm that backs your growth – clear expectations, structured development and real investment in helping you reach your potential.
A progressive culture – collaborative, inclusive and forward-looking, with the space to innovate and do your best work.
Our benefits package reflects our determination to support our people in achieving their full potential. You know what’s important to you and that’s why we offer flexible benefits where we can, allowing you to choose what matters most. Amongst our benefits are:
- 25 days holiday
- Bonus Scheme
- Pension Scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Enhanced Family Leave policies
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits
What happens next?
Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Talent Acquisition team will share the outcome with you by email.
We will hold two interview stages, including scenario-based assessment, providing the opportunity to meet different members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.
Our commitment
At Pinsent Masons, we are committed to recruiting and retaining the best talent and building an inclusive and fair workplace. We value the strength that comes from different experiences and strive to create an environment where everyone feels they belong.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates and are dedicated to ensuring equitable opportunities throughout our recruitment processes. In line with local laws and cultural contexts across the jurisdictions in which we operate, we encourage people of all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences to apply.
If you need reasonable adjustments or accommodations to participate in our recruitment process or to perform the role, please tell us, we will work with you to identify a suitable approach.
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