Overview

Director of People Partnering at OneAdvanced. This role leads the People Partnering and Advisory function, partnering with the Executive team, CPO, and wider leadership to transform the People function into a strategic growth enabler.

About OneAdvanced

At OneAdvanced, we are in the middle of a bold evolution; moving from a traditional SaaS organisation into a platform-first, agentic AI and data-led business.

This transformation is about building a business that is simpler, faster, and smarter, optimising the performance of 2,000+ colleagues, scaling growth and innovation, and empowering everyone to innovate and deliver exceptional outcomes.

What You Will Do

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Partnering – Act as a trusted advisor to the executive team, using insight, data and challenge to shape organisational priorities and outcomes.
• Strategic Partnering – Build commercial clarity around people initiatives; every intervention should drive measurable impact on growth, profitability, or customer outcomes.
• Strategic Partnering – Use analytics to focus effort on the highest-impact initiatives and track ROI on people investments.

• Organisation Design & Simplification – Lead efforts to reduce unnecessary complexity, optimise spans of control, and create agile structures that enable faster decision-making.
• Organisation Design – Ensure the organisation has the right structures, operating models, decision-making and information flows to maximise speed, accountability, collaboration and outcomes.
• AI World Readiness – Review the organisation to understand how roles and operating models need to change in an AI world, and drive the talent strategy and OD work to transition and embed new ways of working, structures, roles and skills.

• Performance & Productivity – Reimagine performance management and frameworks to focus on outcomes, accountability, and commercial alignment.
• Performance – Embed a transition to a skills-based organisation, ensuring leadership teams and People function use insights to close skills gaps and build the skills needed for the future.
• Data & Analytics – Work with the data analytics team to determine drivers of performance and implement changes to improve productivity and reduce ramp-up time for new starters.
• Engagement & Advisory – Build a high performing people advisory function that coaches managers and individuals on performance, provides advisory services, and handles employee relations matters.

• Engagement & Culture – Strengthen colleague engagement by creating a compelling employee experience and mechanisms to listen and act on feedback.
• Change & Transformation Leadership – Be a visible leader of change, building capability to lead organisational change and embedding changes across the business.
• Activating HR Levers Through Collaboration – Orchestrate HR levers with cross-functional partners to shape behaviour and deliver business outcomes, including People Operations, Reward, Performance, Capability Building, Workforce Planning, Engagement, Leadership Enablement, and Financial Partnering.

This role is about aligning these levers in a coordinated, data-driven way to shift the organisation from today’s complexity to a high-performing, platform-first future.

About You

What You Will Have

You are a strategic, commercially minded people leader who thrives on complexity, change, and transformation. You’re comfortable in the boardroom and see HR as a force multiplier for business performance.

• Director / Head of People Partnering / CPO or Head of HR background, ideally with scaling or transforming technology and/or private equity backed organisations.
• Proven track record leading change, pivoting business models, or driving organisational simplification.
• Deep understanding of organisational design, workforce planning, engagement, and performance levers.
• Commercial acumen with ability to connect people decisions to financial and business outcomes; comfortable with workforce modelling and ROI-driven decisions.
• Experience leveraging data and AI to drive insight and action.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.

Personal Attributes

• Bold, strategic, data-led, and execution-focused.
• Systems thinking, capable of solving interdependencies across functions, teams and processes.
• Comfortable challenging status quo and leading through ambiguity.
• Curious, innovative, and excited by the future of work.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and drive change across teams beyond direct reports.
• Grit and resilience to manage fast pace of change.
• Passionate about helping people and businesses perform at their best.

What Success Looks Like in 12 Months

• Organisation is more agile, innovative, and set up for growth with a defined future-state operating model.
• Key drivers for performance and engagement are understood; frameworks deliver measurable uplift in productivity and discretionary effort.
• Leaders view the People function as a true business partner driving customer results and value.
• Clear understanding of AI-related role changes with aligned upskilling and talent plans.
• AI-enabled tools and data-driven insights embedded in day-to-day decision-making.
• The organisation scales without heavy dependence on headcount growth.

What We Do For You

Wellbeing focused – Our people are our greatest assets, with wellbeing integral to performance.

• Annual Leave – 26 days plus holidays, with ability to buy additional days.
• Employee Assistance Programme – Free confidential counselling 24/7.

Personal Growth – We enable your growth personally and professionally.

• Development Programmes – From Future Managers to Leadership Training.
• Performance Bonus – Group-wide bonus scheme.

Financial wellbeing – Pension, income protection, and related benefits.

• Pension Scheme – 5% matched contribution.
• Income protection insurance – Support when needed.

Recognition – Recognition programs for great work.

• Performance & Talent – Real-time feedback and goals via our platform.

Making a Difference – Opportunities to contribute to causes you care about.

• MatchIt! – Company matches donations.
• Volunteering Time – Leave for volunteering.
• Pennies from Heaven – Donate pennies from your pay.

Who We Are – OneAdvanced, a leading UK provider of business software and services, serving 20,000+ customers with £330M turnover. We are diverse, inclusive, and committed to empowering our people.

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Job Details

Seniority level: Not Applicable

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Other

Industries: Software Development and IT Services and IT Consulting

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