People Business Partner

LMAX Group is looking for a highly skilled, pragmatic and commercially minded People Business Partner to join our London office and support senior leaders on a global scale. The People Business Partner is a senior, trusted advisor to leaders and managers across various departments with global reach. Operating with autonomy, you will translate commercial and operational priorities into pragmatic local people plans, lead on complex employee relations and partner across a diverse stakeholder landscape to raise the quality of leadership and people decisions. This is a generalist partnering role spanning the full employee lifecycle, underpinned by strong employment law expertise and a commercial, solutions focused mindset. This role will also take the lead on employee engagement and wellbeing across the business. You will balance the needs of senior stakeholders with those of the wider workforce, often across multiple locations/time zones and competing priorities. Salary: Up to £85,000 DOE - Hybrid, 4 days in the office Responsibilities: Strategic business partnering Build credible, trusted relationships with leaders and managers, acting as a sounding board on all people matters. Translate business strategy and the wider people strategy into deliverable localised/departmental people plans, covering performance, talent, organisational design and workforce planning. Coach and constructively challenge managers and senior stakeholders to lift the standard of leadership and decision making. Using data to create insight and influence across the business, along with identifying opportunities for automation or AI development. Partner with our wider People & Culture teams to ensure alignment with business demand and provide stakeholders with a seamless people experience. Support and challenge leaders to build high performing, inclusive and scalable teams that create measurable impact. Employee Relations Lead and advise on the full range of employee relations matters; disciplinary, grievance, performance management, absence, and complex or sensitive cases, ensuring the management of legal risks and reputational risks pragmatically. Ensure cases are handled fairly, consistently and in line with the applicable country’s local labour/employment laws, internal policy and good HR/best practice. Build manager capability to handle routine ER matters at source with confidence. Identify areas for policy improvement and support the development/update of current people policies and procedures. Stakeholder Engagement Navigate and influence a complex stakeholder environment, building alignment across groups with competing and differing needs. Provide leaders with valuable people related data to drive insight into trends, areas of concern or ways to improve workforce capability. Partner credible with senior leaders while balancing the interests of the wider employee population. Manage expectations and broker pragmatic outcomes where…