Senior HR Business Partner

We are Comex 2000

We’re the team behind the UK’s telecom networks—building, upgrading, and keeping the country connected! From fibre installs to 5G rollouts, we make it happen with innovation, speed, and a smile. If you love a challenge and want to be part of something big, Comex 2000 is the place to be.

We’re looking for a Senior HR Business Partner to shape and deliver people strategies that drive business performance across high‑impact functions. You’ll act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders while leading our Recruitment function to attract and retain top talent.

With expertise in talent, employee relations, organisation design, performance, and change, you’ll enhance leadership capability, improve the employee experience, and support company-wide people and culture initiatives.

What you’ll do

Strategic HR Partnership

·         Serve as the strategic HR partner to senior leaders, providing insight on people strategy, organisation design, change, and talent to drive business performance.

·         Lead workforce planning and continuous HR improvement, ensuring recruitment and people strategies support growth, engagement, and operational effectiveness.

Talent, Development & Recruitment Leadership

• Oversee the Recruitment function, ensuring high-quality sourcing, selection, and onboarding.
  
• Develop recruitment strategies that support business objectives, employer brand, and diversity goals.
  
• Drive succession planning and identify high-potential talent across the business.
  
• Guide managers on performance management, career development, and team capability building.
  

Employee Relations & People Experience

• Act as a senior point of contact for complex employee relations issues, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant resolution.
  
• Support investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, and conflict resolution.
  

Change, Transformation & Organisational Effectiveness

• Lead complex change initiatives, including restructures, capability development, and operating model redesign.
  
• Apply change management best practice to ensure successful adoption and strong stakeholder engagement.
  

Financial & Workforce Planning

• Partner with Finance on headcount planning, budgeting, and workforce cost management.
  
• Monitor people-related spend to ensure alignment with priorities and financial frameworks.
  
• Provide reporting and insights that guide resource allocation and organisational planning.
  

• Extensive experience as a HR Business Partner, leading complex functional areas and delivering strong capability across employee relations, talent, performance, and organisational development
  
• Exceptional influencing skills, with the ability to shape decisions at senior and enterprise level while maintaining professionalism, confidentiality, and strong stakeholder relationships
  
• Proven track record in designing and delivering HR strategies that align with business objectives and drive measurable performance and cultural impact
  
• Strong leadership in change and transformation, including delivery of cross-functional projects in fast‑paced, high‑growth, and ambiguous environments
  
• Advanced analytical capability, including interpreting people metrics, generating insights, and presenting data-driven recommendations to senior leaders
  
• Resilient, adaptable, and able to prioritise effectively in time‑sensitive environments with shifting priorities
  
• Experience with modern HR technologies, including emerging AI tools