HR Business Advisor (Generalist)

About the company

We are recruiting for an experienced HR Business Advisor / Assistant People & Change Partner to join Transport for London's People & Change function. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a large, complex and highly unionised organisation, supporting business-led transformation, organisational change initiatives and strategic people plans.

Your tasks

Working alongside a collaborative team of People Business Partners and Change professionals, you will play a key role in delivering people-focused solutions, providing data-driven insights and supporting stakeholders through organisational change.

• Support the delivery of people plans, organisational change programmes and strategic HR initiatives.
• Analyse workforce and HR data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Produce reports, presentations, change plans and readiness assessments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple business areas, building strong working relationships.
• Support workshops, meetings and engagement activities with managers and key stakeholders.
• Coordinate actions arising from change programmes and people initiatives.
• Provide HR advice and guidance while working closely with specialist functions including Employee Relations, Learning & Development and Diversity & Inclusion teams.
• Contribute to performance management cycles, organisational change activities and job evaluation processes.
• Manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Requirements

We're looking for a confident HR professional who thrives in a complex environment and can balance strong analytical capability with excellent stakeholder management skills.

Essential Experience & Skills

• Experience working as an HR Business Advisor, HR Business Partner, People Advisor, People Partner or similar role.
• Proven experience within a large and complex organisation.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
• Experience supporting organisational change, transformation programmes or people plans.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and provide meaningful insights.
• Strong reporting and presentation skills.
• Experience working across matrix organisations and collaborating with multiple HR specialist teams.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable Experience

• Experience within the transport sector or similarly complex environments.
• Exposure to organisational design, operating model reviews or transformation projects.
• Experience using Power BI or similar reporting tools.
• Understanding of trade union engagement, employee relations and highly unionised workplaces.

What we offer

• Opportunity to support high-profile people and change initiatives within one of the UK's largest organisations.
• Hybrid working arrangement with flexibility built into the role.
• Collaborative and supportive People & Change team.
• Exposure to complex transformation and organisational change projects.
• Competitive day rate.

How to apply

Interview Process

• Single-stage Teams interview (with potential for in-person interviews if required).
• Competency-based assessment and CV walkthrough.

Please apply with your updated CV as soon as possible, as interviews are expected to take place shortly and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Other

Rate: £350 per day Umbrella

Location: Palestra, London (with attendance at Pier Walk, North Greenwich and Endeavour Square, Stratford as required)

Hybrid Working: 2/3 days office based.

Apply Now If you have a background in HR business partnering, organisational change and workforce analytics, and you're comfortable operating within a complex stakeholder environment, we'd love to hear from you.