Senior People Business Partner

Senior People Business Partner

Location: Cavan

Permanent full time, Office Based

Salary: €65k - €70k plus pension

Provide strategic HR partnership to senior leadership while leading the HRBP team to deliver a data-driven, compliant, and high-impact people agenda. Translate the overarching People strategy into actionable divisional plans, drive organisational effectiveness, and serve as the senior escalation point for complex employee relations and organisational change matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a strategic partner to senior leaders on people, culture, performance, and organisational effectiveness.
• Translate the People strategy into divisional people plans and ensure effective delivery.
• Lead organisational design at functional level, aligning structure, capability, and resourcing with business needs.
• Use people data and insights to influence leadership decisions and support evidence-based workforce planning.
• Lead, coach, and develop the HRBP team to ensure high-quality partnering and consistency of approach.
• Support the Head of HR on governance, audit readiness, policy implementation, and people-risk management.
• Lead compliance reviews and support internal and external audits relating to HR processes, employment records, workforce compliance, and statutory obligations.
• Lead the ER strategy within business units, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant practice.
• Provide expert advice on complex ER cases and act as the escalation point, including as WRC contact where required.
• Lead workforce planning priorities across partnered functions in line with organisational forecasts.
• Support talent reviews, succession planning, capability assessments, and deployment of critical skills.
• Provide oversight of work permit and employment permission requirements, supporting business resourcing plans and ensuring legal right-to-work compliance.
• Lead change programmes within partnered areas, ensuring strong engagement, communication, and adoption.
• Act as primary HR advisor to the monthly staff population, providing clear guidance and support.
• Coach leaders in effective people management and culture-building practices.
• Provide expert guidance to managers on workforce compliance matters including Working Time Directive requirements, working hours management, employee data protection, right-to-work requirements, and statutory employment obligations.
• Oversee GDPR compliance within HR processes, ensuring appropriate handling, retention, security, and access controls for employee data.
• Monitor Working Time Directive compliance, supporting managers in identifying risks relating to working hours, rest periods, and record-keeping requirements.
• Support HR audits, regulatory inspections, and legal processes including WRC, Labour Court, and data protection matters.
• Ensure HR records, employee documentation, and people processes meet governance, audit, and statutory standards.

Skills / Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ progressive HR experience, including senior partnering in manufacturing/FMCG or similar environments.
• Proven leadership of HRBPs and delivery of complex change and ER matters.
• Strong command of Irish employment law and WRC processes.
• Experience with workforce planning and using HR analytics to inform decisions.
• Relevant third-level qualification in HR or related field; CIPD qualification desirable
• Strategic thinking with strong commercial acumen and stakeholder influence.
• Excellent judgement, confidentiality, and risk assessment.
• Data literacy; able to interpret and communicate people insights.
• Change leadership, facilitation, and coaching skills.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) with practical, solutions-driven approach.