Lead HR Business Partner

Macmillan Davies is looking for an experienced Lead HR Business Partner to join our legal client'scollaborative and ambitious HR team in Bristol or Exeter. This is an exciting opportunity for acommercially minded HR professional who thrives in a strategic, partnership-ledenvironment and enjoys influencing senior leaders to deliver exceptional peopleoutcomes.Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll play a key role in shapingleadership capability, organisational culture and business performance. This isa highly visible position where you'll provide expert advice, challengeconstructively and lead on complex people matters across the employee lifecycle.THE OPPORTUNITYAs Lead HR Business Partner, you'll be a trusted adviser to senior leaders,providing pragmatic, commercially focused HR guidance that supports businessobjectives while maintaining fairness, consistency and legal compliance.You'll also lead and develop a team of HR Business Partners, ensuringhigh-quality service delivery and acting as the escalation point for complexemployee relations matters.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, providing expert advice across the full employee lifecycle. * Partner with leadership teams to drive performance, talent development, succession planning and organisational effectiveness. * Provide commercially focused guidance on complex employee relations issues, balancing business needs with legal and organisational risk. * Lead and support organisational change initiatives, including restructures, consultations and TUPE where required. * Coach, mentor and develop the HR Business Partner team, promoting consistency, capability and best practice. * Use people data and insights to influence decision-making and demonstrate the impact of HR initiatives. * Champion a positive, inclusive culture that supports engagement, development and high performance.ABOUT YOUWe're looking for an experienced HR professional who can confidently operate atsenior leadership level and influence decision-making across a complexorganisation.You'll have: * Significant experience as an HR Business Partner, working closely with senior leaders. * Previous experience within a professional services or partnership environment is highly desirable. * Demonstrable experience leading, coaching or mentoring HR professionals. * Strong knowledge of UK employment law, employee relations and organisational change. * Experience managing complex employee relations cases and organisational change programmes. * Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively. * Strong commercial awareness and the ability to balance people priorities with business objectives. * Experience using HR data and insights to support strategic decision-making. * A resilient, pragmatic and collaborative approach, with excellent judgement and credibility.WHY JOIN?This is an opportunity to make a genuine impact within a people-focusedorganisation that values collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.You'll join a supportive HR team where your expertise will shape leadershipcapability, employee experience and organisational success, while enjoying aflexible and collaborative working environment that encourages professionalgrowth and career development.LOCATIONThis role can be based from either Bristol or Exeter, with occasional travel toother offices as required. You will be required in the office 3-4 days.