Beam Up
Senior People Partner
London, Remote. Posted 9 days ago
The role
You will own complex employee relations and performance matters. You will work with managers to set expectations, address underperformance, and build manager capability as the company scales.
What you will do
- Lead complex employee relations cases including investigations, grievances, disciplinaries, capability, absence and sensitive exits
- Advise managers on difficult employee decisions
- Take ownership of cases from initial assessment through to resolution
- Exercise independent judgement on risk and escalation
- Identify recurring issues to improve performance and employee relations management
- Help managers set clear expectations and provide effective feedback
- Strengthen probation management
- Support managers through informal performance interventions and formal capability processes
- Embed consistent performance standards across teams
- Act as a trusted adviser and coach to managers
Required qualifications
- Strong employee relations expertise
- Experience independently managing complex grievances, disciplinaries, investigations, capability and absence cases
- Excellent knowledge of UK employment law
- Experience raising performance standards
- Sound judgement and commercial awareness
- Credibility with managers and leaders
- Experience in a scaling organisation
- A practical, hands-on approach
- A mindset for continuous improvement
- Confidence using AI
Nice to have
- Experience supporting employees across multiple countries, particularly the US or Australia
About the company
Beam is building AI that serves society. It is a global team of problem solvers that has been named a Top 15 UK Startup by LinkedIn.