Senior People Business Partner

Bupa Insurance Limited; Staines-upon-Thames, Salford, Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - GBP 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health insurance provider is seeking a Senior People Business Partner to drive the People Plan for its Insurance Teams. As a trusted advisor, you will work with senior leaders, providing strategic HR insights and ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Your experience in managing cultural and organisational change is vital, as you will lead various initiatives to enhance performance and colleague experience. This hybrid position offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits designed to support overall wellbeing.

Benefits

25 days holiday

Bupa health insurance

Management bonus

Enhanced pension plan

Onsite gyms or local discounts

Qualifications

• Broad expertise across the full HR lifecycle.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders in complex environments.
• Record of leading cultural and organisational change projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and delivery of People Plan.
• Advise senior leaders and influence decision-making.
• Guide organisational design and workforce planning.

Skills

HR expertise

Stakeholder management

Commercial insight

Organisational change

Job description

Job Description

Senior People Business Partner
Hybrid | Permanent | Full-time (37.5 hours per week)
Locations: Salford Quays, Leeds or Staines
Flexible working options available - locations, hours, and patterns considered.
Salary: From £64,000

Join Us in Making Health Happen

We're looking for a Senior People Business Partner to play a pivotal role in driving the People Plan for our Insurance Teams. You'll act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders bringing commercial insight, strong HR expertise and clear strategic direction to help us build a high‑performing, well‑led and customer‑focused organisation. You'll work across a sophisticated, matrixed environment including UK Insurance, Bupa Global and multiple People Centres of Expertise, ensuring our people priorities land effectively and deliver real impact.

What You'll Do

• Leading the design and delivery of the People Plan across Insurance and Functions, aligned to Bupa's wider people strategy.
• Acting as a key advisor to senior leaders shaping thinking, influencing decision‑making and driving strong leadership capability.
• Guiding organisational design and workforce planning to ensure we have the right people, skills and structure for the future.
• Playing a lead role in major change programmes and transformation initiatives.
• Embedding people risk, conduct and regulatory requirements to ensure compliant, well‑governed and sustainable operations.
• Driving culture, engagement, wellbeing and talent outcomes to support performance and colleague experience.

What We're Looking For

• HR professional with strong, broad expertise across the full HR lifecycle.
• Experience of partnering senior leaders in large, complex and ideally regulated environments bringing credible challenge and strong judgement.
• A proven record of leading cultural, behavioural and organisational change projects, including OD and workforce planning
• Confident operating within matrix structures
• Strong stakeholder management, commercial insight and the ability to deliver clear, measurable outcomes

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health - from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• Management bonus
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We're a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to ”Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That's why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We'll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [e-mail]

Time Type: Full time

Job Area: People & HR

Locations: Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge, Staines - Willow House