People Experience Business Partner

The role

You will operate in a strategic partnership model with senior leaders across Product & Tech and Sales. You will translate people strategy into business outcomes and lead people initiatives across the UK.

What you will do

• Partner with Product & Tech and Sales leadership to build workforce plans
• Lead UK-wide programmes including regional operating model design and workforce planning
• Run salary review, talent reviews, and succession cycles
• Lead change management and organisational design initiatives
• Embed AI and data into how PX works
• Build AI fluency in leaders and teams
• Link talent decisions to commercial impact
• Challenge leaders with data
• Resolve sensitive employee matters
• Run organisational design and change end to end

Required qualifications

• Partnered with senior leadership teams across the full spectrum of people experience
• Comfortable operating in a matrix environment
• Can turn business strategy into people plans with measurable outcomes
• Connect talent decisions to commercial impact
• Use people data to make recommendations
• Apply AI and data-led approaches to work and talent strategy
• Can step into an unfamiliar portfolio and build credibility quickly
• Resolve complex issues without relying on established relationships or heavy direction
• Led organisational design and restructures end to end
• Handled high-risk employee relations matters with fair, legally robust, and pragmatic judgement
• Collaborative problem-solving skills
• Developed impactful succession and development plans

Nice to have

• Ideally in a mid-to-large SaaS or technology business

About the company

Xero's purpose is to make running a business beautiful by empowering small businesses with connected technology and strong support networks.