People Business Partner

Are you an experienced Senior People Business Partner, Head of HR, or strategic HR leader looking to shape the future of a nationwide operational business? This Senior People Business Partner role will act as a key partner to the Group Director of People while leading a team of three regional multi site People Business Partners supporting Managing Directors across the UK. This is a highly influential role where you will help drive organisational performance, leadership capability, cultural alignment, and people transformation across multiple Business Units. Combining strategic leadership with hands on support, you will act as the bridge between People Operations, Centres of Expertise, and operational leadership teams, ensuring people strategy translates into meaningful commercial impact.

• Partner with the Group Director of People and executive leaders to shape and deliver people strategy across the organisation
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of three regional People Business Partners supporting nationwide operational teams
• Drive leadership capability, succession planning, talent development, and performance management maturity
• Support complex organisational change, operating model implementation, and transformation programmes
• Provide senior oversight and guidance on complex employee relations, people risk, and organisational effectiveness matters
  
  You could already be operating as a Senior HR Business Partner, Head of People, Lead HRBP, or HR Manager within a complex, operational, or multi site environment. You are commercially minded, comfortable influencing senior stakeholders, and able to balance strategic thinking with practical delivery across fast paced operational teams.
You will bring leadership capability, resilience, and credibility, helping elevate both the People function and the wider leadership community. We know no candidate matches every requirement perfectly, so if you have transferable experience and the ability to influence at senior level, we would encourage you to apply.
• Strong experience within a multi site, operational, or commercially focused environment
• Proven ability to coach, lead, and develop HR or People professionals
• Confident influencing executive stakeholders and operational leadership teams
• Strong understanding of organisational design, talent, succession, change, and workforce capability
• Comfortable travelling nationally where required to maintain visibility and partnership across the business
  
  Dawsongroup is one of Europe's leading asset rental businesses, operating across trucks, vans, buses and coaches, material handling, municipal, temperature control, finance, and energy solutions. Operating for over 90 years as a family business, we still adhere to the values that guided us for so long, now under the ownership of KKR, with continued investment in our people, infrastructure, and future growth.
With operations across the UK and internationally, our culture is built around accountability, collaboration, growth, and continuous improvement. We are investing heavily in leadership capability, organisational effectiveness, and people development, making this an exciting time to join our People team.
• 2x life assurance scheme
• Funded training and internal progression opportunities, nationally and internationally
• 24 days standard leave allowance + Birthday + plus Bank Holidays + up to 10 days extra, time served and purchase scheme
• Wellbeing and mental health support
• Cycle to work schemes, seasonal gifts, and long term incentives
About Your Future This role offers the opportunity to play a major part in shaping the future of leadership, capability, and culture across a growing nationwide organisation. Working closely with executive stakeholders, you will influence strategic decision making while building the capability and maturity of the wider People function. At Dawsongroup, Senior People Business Partners are trusted advisors who help drive meaningful organisational change and long term business performance. If you are looking for a role with visibility, influence, leadership responsibility, and genuine scope to shape the future People agenda, this could be your next step.
• Lead and develop a high performing People Business Partnering team across a nationwide operation
• Shape organisational capability, succession planning, and leadership maturity across multiple Business Units
• Influence strategic people decisions alongside senior and executive leadership teams
• Support transformational change and embedding of new operating models across the business
• Continue developing your career within a business committed to long term investment in people and leadership
Dawsongroup is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences. If you are ready to take the next step in your People or HR leadership career with a business that genuinely values growth, capability, and leadership, we would love to hear from you. At Dawsongroup, people are our greatest asset, and this is your opportunity to help shape the future of ours.