People Partner

## Company Description PortmanDentex is a leading dental group where your skills and ambitions make a real difference. We support over 370 practices across the UK and Ireland. We’re united by a passion for great dentistry, putting patients first and helping each other grow both at work and beyond. ## Job Description **The People Business Partner develops and aligns** people strategy with business objectives across designated areas of our business. Operating as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, this role drives organisational performance, workforce planning, and culture change while leveraging specialist support from Centres of Expertise (CoEs) and a dedicated Colleague Relations (ER) team. As a key member of the People team, the People Business Partner supports strategic initiatives, and helps shape people policy and practice that aligns with our values-led performance culture and our business goals. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:** **Strategic Partnership:** - Acts as the primary HR partner to senior leaders, providing strategic insight and people-focused solutions to deliver business objectives. - Leads the implementation of workforce strategies including organisational design, talent management, succession planning, engagement, and workforce planning. - Uses people data to identify trends (e.g. engagement, turnover, capability) and drives action that improves workforce effectiveness. **Leadership Coaching & Capability Building:** - Coaches and equips leaders to manage their teams with confidence, providing support for performance conversations and leadership development. - Supports the development of a values-led, high-performance culture through accountability, continuous feedback, and effective people management. - Identifies skill gaps and capability risks, working with the Talent Development team to deliver targeted initiatives and build leadership capability. **Organisational Change:** - Leads the people agenda for change programmes including restructures, integrations, divestments and organisational redesign. **Engagement:** - Translates Your Voice results into clear, actionable plans, driving meaningful improvements in engagement. **Talent & Succession Management:** - Identifies critical roles and key talent, ensuring succession plans and talent development pathways are in place and actioned. - Partners with Talent Development and senior leaders to build cross department pipelines and future-fit capabilities. **People Team Interface:** - Partners with the Colleague Relations (ER) team to ensure consistent, fair, and compliant handling of employee relations matters. - Works closely with CoE teams (e.g. Talent Development, People Operations, Colleague Relations) to shape and deliver tailored people solutions. - Acts as a conduit between the business and CoEs, providing business insight and championing the value of CoE teams. **People Analytics & Insight:** - Leverages people data and HR metrics to inform decision-making, monitor progress, and identifies opportunities for improvement. - Works in partnership with CoEs to report on and respond to KPIs related to engagement, attrition, diversity, and performance. **KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:** Workforce planning deliverables Manager capability Engagement action plan delivery Talent/succession strength **We welcome your application to our People Partner vacancy if you have the following qualifications and skills:** **SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:** - An experienced HR Business Partner or similar strategic HR role in a multi-site organisation. - Strong commercial acumen and ability to link people priorities to business outcomes. - Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills. - Experience in change management, workforce planning, and organisational development. - Comfortable operating in a centre-led HR model with CoEs and CR support. - Experience of an employed and self-employed model - Sound understanding of UK&I employment law and people-related risks (w…