Strategic HR Business Partner

Rabobank is seeking a highly experienced and accomplished Strategic HR Business Partner (SHRBP) for a 12 Month Fixed Term Contract role.

Based In the heart of the City of London and reporting to the Head of People UK, the SHRBP plays a critical role in shaping strategic people outcomes across the business. This is a dynamic and influential position for a commercially astute HR professional who brings expertise, strong business partnering capability, and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will provide expert guidance, drive impactful people initiatives, and contribute to a high-performing, forward-thinking culture. You will be part of a collaborative HR team where knowledge sharing, innovation, and partnership are at the core of everything we do.

The People@Work Strategy supports the Bank’s mission of Growing a Better World Together by enabling our people to have a meaningful impact on our clients, the Bank and society, focusing on creating a Great Place to Be and a Future Ready Organisation.  

​ ​​We focus on working with the business to formulate their people strategy to ensure implementation of their strategic aims to meet business goals.  We seek to be integrated and core within the business, highly visible and to support staff at all levels with a solution-oriented and commercial approach.  

​​ ​​As a Director level SHRBP your role will be to act as independent facilitator, providing specialist advice in all areas of people management and be highly skilled in managing stakeholder relationships.  Key to our function is to achieve a balance between commercial requirements and best practice in our fields of expertise.  

• ​​​Strategic HR Leadership: Trusted partner to senior leaders, shaping and delivering business-aligned people strategies while championing the people agenda at management level.

• Organisational Change & Risk Management: Lead complex change initiatives, ensuring seamless delivery, robust risk mitigation, and compliance with UK legal and regulatory frameworks.

• Talent & Capability Development: Partnering with the Head of Talent Acquisition drive recruitment, help to shape succession planning, and leadership capability—building strong talent pipelines and coaching senior stakeholders to elevate performance.

• Expert People Advisory & Insights: Provide data-driven insights, lead key HR initiatives, and offer expert guidance on employee relations, employment law, and DE&I to enhance business outcomes.

Our ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in HR Business Partnering within Banking and Finance:

• ​​​​Strong employment law and regulatory knowledge with the ability to interpret and provide pragmatic and commercial advice.

• ​Experience in proactive management of people issues to produce the best outcomes for the employee and the Bank, whilst mitigating risks.

• ​Strong change management skills and previous experience of managing the people implications of business restructuring exercises and organisational development.

• ​​​Strong communication, collaboration, influencing and project management skills.

• Experience of coaching senior leaders and managers.

We provide a collaborative and supportive environment where professionals can thrive. You will have professional autonomy and help shape strategy and deliver transformative outcomes. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact within an organisation committed to excellence, growth, and sustainable success.

We work flexibly at Rabobank, combining the benefits of working at the London office and working from home, allowing the best of both worlds to come together and allowing a healthy work-life balance.

Some Benefits for this role would include:

• A competitive salary.

• 28 days’ holiday.

• Company pension scheme plus other financial benefit schemes.

• Private medical insurance, plus other health benefits.

• A range of family friendly policies and lifestyle benefits.

• Salary sacrifice schemes – cycle to work

Plus, many more incentives.

As well as helping our clients to grow their businesses, we are fully committed to growing our people to make them the best that they can be. We embrace differences and strive to create a truly inclusive work culture, based on trust and respect for all.  A place where everyone can be themselves and bring their whole selves to work along with their unique experiences, background, and expertise. We strive to empower our people to focus on their wellbeing, by providing a range of resources that will enable them to flourish both in and outside of the workplace. Our ambition is to maintain sustainable, meaningful, and collaborative working environments so that our people understand how they contribute to our vision and overall mission, they can be healthy at work and bring the best version of themselves to our vibrant UK Branch community. 

We are an equal opportunities recruiter.  Should you require any additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or health condition, or if you require any support or assistance due any individual characteristics you may have, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Talent Acquisition Team who will work with you to consider any adjustments, or support, which we can reasonably make or provide.

As part of our Disability Confident commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Deadline for application: 29 June 2026 (due to high volume of applications this advert may close prior to the posted close date). Applications via LinkedIn message or email will not be reviewed, please apply via the link.

Should you require any more information, or you would like to opt into the scheme please contact the Talent Acquisition Team on [email protected].

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