People Partner - Change

People Partner – Change (Justice & Immigration)

Location: Flexible (with travel to Serco offices and other Justice & Immigration sites)
Salary - £50,000 - £55,000 + Company Car, Bonus, PMI and Pension up to 6%
SC Clearance Required

Make an Impact Where It Matters

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded People Partner to join our Growth & Change HR team, supporting our Justice & Immigration business.

This is a high-impact role where you will work closely with the Head of HR Growth & Change, Senior People Partners and Centres of Expertise to deliver complex change programmes, organisational design initiatives and strategic people projects across a fast-paced, unionised environment.

If you thrive in transformation, enjoy solving complex people challenges and want to help shape inclusive, progressive cultures - this role offers genuine scope and visibility.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coach, mentor and guide people managers on engagement, performance and change matters
• Partner with Senior People Partners to shape and deliver people strategy aligned to business objectives
• Support organisation design and workforce planning initiatives
• Lead and support complex change programmes including TUPE transfers, Restructures, Location changes, Headcount reductions, Contract turnaround and transformation projects etc.
• Work closely with People Services to optimise HR processes and broker practical solutions
• Use data, metrics and insights to improve people cost management and organisational performance
• Provide input to bids, ensuring strong people strategy and workforce design
• Champion the People & Culture operating model and continuous improvement

What we’re looking for

Essential:

• Demonstrable experience leading HR change projects in complex, fast-paced environments
• Strong grounding in organisation design, talent development, culture and change management
• Experience supporting mobilisation, bids and business transformation activity
• Confident stakeholder management and influencing skills, including engaging at Director level and constructively challenging
• Experience working within unionised environments
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver at pace
• Eligible for or able to obtain SC clearance
  
  
  

Desirable:

• CIPD qualified (or working towards), or equivalent HR experience
• Full UK driving licence

Why join Serco

At Serco, we support essential public services across the UK & Europe. In this role, you’ll contribute to major growth and transformation programmes, working alongside senior leaders to shape people strategies that make a tangible difference to our colleagues and customers.

What we offer:

• Company car
• Private healthcare
• Bonus scheme of up to 10%
• Flexible working considered
• Pension – 6%
• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
• Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping discounts, and discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
• A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Simply Health Cash Plans, and more.
• A wealth of career development training to suit your future aspirations. These range from role specific training, leadership coaching, formal study and much more to support you to build your career with Serco.
• A safe and supportive culture.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services.  We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

Apply
Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment. 

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.  For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.
 

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.