Regional HR Business Partner

Job Description

• Job Title: Regional HR Business Partner - Sodexo Live! UK&I
• Location: Scotland with travel required across the UK
• Highly competitive Salary plus £1,300 Flexible Benefit funds, 15% performance bonus plus car allowance
• 40hours working 5 days over 7days
• Driving Licence required

Job Introduction

At Sodexo Live!, we're passionate about creating unforgettable moments. From world-famous sporting venues and iconic racecourses to prestigious cultural destinations and major live events, we deliver exceptional hospitality experiences that leave a lasting impression on millions of guests every year.

We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded Regional HR Business Partner to join our UK & Ireland team. This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious HR professional who thrives in fast-paced, operational environments and wants to influence people strategy across a diverse portfolio of venues and events.

Supporting a large, diverse workforce across a portfolio of iconic venues and events, you'll play a critical role in driving performance, enabling growth, and ensuring our people are equipped to deliver extraordinary guest and fan experiences.

What You'll Do:

• Partner with senior leaders to develop and deliver people strategies that support business growth and operational excellence.
• Lead workforce planning initiatives, ensuring we have the right people, skills and capabilities to meet fluctuating event demand.
• Support the recruitment, retention, engagement and development of both permanent and casual workforces.
• Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations matters, organisational change and people risk.
• Drive talent management, succession planning and performance initiatives across the region.
• Champion Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, engagement, recognition and wellbeing programmes.
• Use HR analytics and workforce data to influence decision-making, improve productivity and optimise labour costs.
• Support business development activities, mobilisations and people transitions for new and existing contracts.
• Coach and develop managers, helping them build high-performing and engaged teams.
• Collaborate closely with HR Centres of Excellence and wider HR teams to deliver a seamless people experience.

What You Bring:

• CIPD qualification, degree-level education or equivalent HR experience.
• Significant HR Business Partner or senior HR generalist experience.
• Proven experience supporting large-scale casual, seasonal or contingent workforces.
• Strong knowledge across employee relations, talent management, succession planning, organisational development, reward and change management.
• Experience working within complex, multi-site operational environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management, coaching and influencing skills.
• Strong commercial awareness and the ability to use people data to drive business outcomes.
• Confidence operating within a matrix organisation and managing competing priorities.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with leaders, clients and colleagues at all levels.
• Experience within hospitality, events, leisure, sports, retail or other customer-facing operational environments.
• Exposure to the live events industry.