HR BUSINESS PARTNER - 12 month fixed-term contract
Part-Time - 4 days / 30 hours per week
£45,000.00-50,000.00 pro-rata
Hybrid - Leicester/Remote
Are you..
A generalist HR Business Partner or People Partner looking for a fresh challenge in an exciting and dynamic environment? Looking for a true partnering role with strategic influence? Do you live within approximately a 1-hour commute of our Leicester Head office and are you able and willing to attend site at least twice weekly, or as often as the business needs, and our other offices from time to time? Available to start on Monday 20th July 2026?
Role Overview:
As a HR Business Partner (known internally as the People Partner), you will play a critical role in providing strategic HR support and ensuring effective people management across Simplify. This is a high-impact, fast-paced position, that requires a self-starter who can work independently and set clear objectives. You will partner with specific business areas to drive HR initiatives, support managers, and ensure a positive work culture that supports high performance. The role is focused on providing solutions in a high-performance, results-oriented environment.
We can offer flexibility for the right person in regards to work pattern ie, 4 full days or 30 hours spread across 5 days, however Monday must be a working day in Leicester.
Benefits
Competitive Salary of £45,000.00-50,000.00 (to be pro-rata'd), Hybrid Working, 25 Days' Holiday (Plus 8 Days' Public Holiday), Option To Buy Or Sell an additional 5 days' Holiday, Pension, Life Assurance, Enhanced Maternity, Paternity & Adoption Pay, Free Conveyancing Legals, 24-hour GP service, Retail Discounts, Plus Many More!
Key Responsibilities:
Requirements:
Proven Business Partnering Experience: Strong experience in an HR Business Partner role, ideally in a high-performance, fast-paced industry (e.g., FMCG, Insurance, other relevant Private Sector).
What we need to see from you:
- Experience of working in a generalist HR Business Partner or People Partner position, within a large (1,000+ employees), multi-site, complex, and fast-paced, private sector organisation.
- Excellent knowledge of UK employment law and ability to act as an expert ER escalation point.
- Ability to act as HR subject matter expert in multidisciplinary settings.
- Able to design, drive, and deliver HR projects.
- Proven evidence of HR project management and delivery, supporting on notable change management programmes.
- Strong communication, coaching, and influencing skills
- Skilled in data-driven decision making
- Proven experience of working with senior business leaders to develop and maintain High Performing Teams
- Confidence working in environments with rapid pace of change and uncertainty
- Proficiency in use of common software packages including, but not limited to, Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio, Power BI, Microsoft Project.
- Unrestricted access to own vehicle and willing to spend at least 2 days a week at our Leicester Head Office, of whichone of those days must be Monday, with travel to other UK sites as and when required.
Our People
Simplify believes diversity brings benefits for our clients, our business and our people. This is why we are committed to being an inclusive employer and encourage applications from all suitable applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.
About Us
Simplify is the UK’s leading conveyancing and property services business, comprising nine businesses which include some of the largest conveyancing law firms in the UK, two leading independent property services businesses as well as being the market-leading direct to consumer online conveyancer.
