People and Development Partner

Salary Range £55k - £60k + Bonus + Hybrid working + benefits

Permanent/Full time/Hybrid (3 days office, 2 home)

Milton Keynes

Are you ready to make a real impact across three distinct businesses, each with its own personality and ambitions? We’re hiring a People & Development Partner to work with Christie Group Central Services, Pinders, and support the wider P&D team with Christie Insurance.

You’ll be a connector, coach, and collaborator, helping shape the future of our people experience through trust, insight, and action.

About the Role

This is a great role for someone who loves variety and wants to make a real difference. You’ll help shape the strategic people agenda for each business, while also being hands-on, bringing practical HR/People expertise to day-to-day moments that matter.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with leaders to shape, deliver, and refine people projects and change initiatives, ensuring alignment with both business vision and team aspirations.
• Consultative Coaching and Feedback: Offer practical guidance, proactive coaching, and constructive feedback, empowering managers to lead confidently, nurture talent, and address challenges collaboratively.
• People Planning: Work alongside leaders and managers to anticipate and plan for future team needs, using insights and data to support robust decision-making and foster sustainable growth and resilience.
• Embedding New Practices: Facilitate the adoption of new HRIS tools and processes, ensuring everyone has the support and understanding needed to thrive in evolving ways of working.
• Enabling People and Teams: Partner with managers to nurture high-performing, engaged, and inclusive teams, setting and managing expectations and supporting the teams to realise their full potential through ongoing formal and informal development and open dialogue.
• Supporting the Employee Journey: Guide managers and teams through key moments, like recruitment, performance conversations, and development planning, so every individual has a positive, fair experience aligned to best practice and legal frameworks.
• Documentation and processes: Proactively guide and support managers through documentation, process, and compliance requirements, and when needed, step in to ensure everything is delivered accurately, consistently, and with care.
• Collaboration and Influence: Act as a connector across the group’s broader People community, sharing best practices, building alignment, and encouraging cross-team learning and growth.

What you will bring

• Proven HR Partnering Experience: You’ve worked in People Partner or HR Business Partner roles before, ideally supporting multiple entities with varied cultures and needs.
• Credibility and Calm Confidence: You bring a thoughtful, grounded approach and are comfortable advising senior leaders, offering challenge and support in equal measure.
• Strong Communication and Coaching Skills: You know how to listen, guide, and influence—helping managers lead with clarity, confidence, and care.
• Strategic Thinking with Practical Delivery: You can shape people plans and also roll up your sleeves to make things happen—balancing long-term vision with hands-on action.
• Comfort with Complexity: You’re used to working across different teams and priorities, and can flex your style to suit the situation.
• HR Systems and Change Experience: You’ve supported the rollout or embedding of HR systems and understand how to help teams adopt new ways of working.
• A People-First Mindset: You care about creating fair, inclusive, and enabling experiences for colleagues at every stage of their journey.
• Hands-On Approach: You’re not afraid to get stuck in—proactively guiding and supporting, and stepping in to do the doing when that’s what’s needed to keep things moving.

What we are offering

• 27 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays)
• Hybrid working
• Company sick pay
• Income protection if you fall ill
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Opportunities for learning and development (e.g. coaching qualification; leadership development etc)
• Contributions to eye tests
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Subsidised Gym membership
• Aviva Digicare+ package of support, helplines, Thrive App, wellbeing

We are committed to diversity and inclusion.