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Position Summary
This is a Senior HR Business Partner position and the primary interface between HR and senior business leaders across Alliance Healthcare UK (AH UK). Supporting AH UK Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and ELT-1 leaders, the role is responsible for aligning people strategy with business objectives, ensuring that organisational capability, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning and culture are critical enablers of business success.

Operating within the Cencora HR Operating Model, you will work in close partnership with Centres of Excellence across Talent, Reward, Employee Relations and Shared Services to design and deliver people solutions that support both current and future business needs. The role balances strategic leadership with practical delivery, with a particular focus on organisational transformation, workforce planning, talent and succession, and complex people change programmes.

This is a transformation and project delivery focused Senior HRBP position, not a generalist or day-to-day business partner role. The successful candidate will spend the majority of their time leading and delivering significant people programmes and change initiatives for the AH UK business. This role would suit an autonomous and collaborative business partner, who enjoys owning complex, meaningful work and driving tangibles outcomes at pace.

This role is primarily remote based, however will require travel across AH UK's network including to attend meetings at our Chessington office.

Key Responsibilities

Leading complex people transformation programmes, including organisation design, restructuring, large-scale workforce change and people exits, ensuring legal compliance and effective stakeholder engagement throughout
Acting as a trusted strategic advisor to ELT and ELT-1 leaders, providing commercially focused people guidance, constructive challenge, and coaching to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team performance
Driving talent management and succession planning activity across your client groups, facilitating talent reviews, identifying critical roles, and ensuring development actions land and deliver impact
Using people data, workforce analytics and business insight to identify risks and opportunities, influence senior decision making, and track the effectiveness of people initiatives
Developing and delivering integrated people plans that align to business strategy, address capability gaps, and support future organisational requirements
Working in close partnership with CoEs across Talent, Reward, Recruitment and Shared Services to deliver cohesive, commercially focused people solutions
Supporting cyclical HR activity including performance cycles, compensation review, and enterprise talent programmes, ensuring consistent and high-quality delivery across your client groups
Leading HR workstreams associated with acquisitions, integrations, business transfers and TUPE activity where required, translating business strategies into people-focused programmes with sustainable outcomes
Building communication and engagement plans that support successful change adoption, and coaching leaders to build organisational readiness throughout periods of significant business change

Candidate Requirements

Experience and Education

Significant prior experience in strategically impactful HR Business Partnering roles
A proven track record of delivering through complexity, including transformation, organisational design and workforce planning programmes
Comfortable partnering and influencing at senior and executive level
Background in highly operational industries such as logistics, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing or retail fit well here
Strong knowledge of UK employment law and employee relations practice required. Experience supporting unionised employee populations and industrial relations activity would be beneficial
CIPD or equivalent qualification preferred
An earlier grounding in sales, recruitment or similarly fast-paced, stakeholder-heavy environments is a real plus

Key Attributes

Autonomous and proactive, able take a brief and deliver
Direct and to the point, able to distil complex information to important data and actions
Resilience, staying focused in a challenging environment and bringing others with you
Collaborative, building trust quickly and delivering within a matrixed HR model

What Cencora offers

Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.

Full time

Affiliated Companies

Affiliated Companies: AmerisourceBergen Services Corporation

Equal Employment Opportunity

Cencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.

The company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.

Cencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email hrsc@cencora.com. We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. Messages and emails regarding anything other than accommodations requests will not be returned

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