People Development Business Partner


Company:	Home Group Limited
Salary:	£32,262 to £37,394 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4BX
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	16 Sept 2026
Closing date:	28 Sept 2026

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Summary

About the role

Pay £32,000 to £37,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience plus a health cash plan!

Home, a place where you belong

Whether you’ll be partnering with stakeholders and business areas across Home Group, or supporting the delivery of our key People Development projects, you’ll make a difference by helping our colleagues grow, thrive and deliver a brilliant service to our customers. You’ll be part of our passionate People Development team who are trusted to drive change and build a culture where people feel valued and supported.

What you’ll do

• Partner with teams across Home Group to identify people development needs and deliver tailored solutions, ensuring our colleagues have the skills, knowledge and behaviours needed.

• Apply the consultancy cycle to design, deliver and evaluate people development interventions.

• Lead and support people development projects, aligned to our strategy and key priorities.

• Influence and support brilliant practice across our People Development team.

• Collaborate with HRD colleagues to ensure joined-up, consistent support.

Why join us

You’ll be part of our team that’s passionate about helping people grow. We’ll support your development with great training, mentoring and opportunities to lead exciting projects. You’ll work flexibly and be trusted to make a real impact. Be part of one of the UK’s Great Places to Work! We can’t offer a CoS for this role

You have

• Experience of project management and applying the consultancy cycle in in a range of strategic people development products. You’ll bring extensive knowledge of strategic people development best practice, current trends and evidence-based solutions.

• Experience in designing, delivering and evaluating a range of people development, delivered across multiple teams in a large, complex organisation.

• Experience of facilitating group sessions. You’ll be confident, with excellent verbal communication skills to work with a range of stakeholders; influencing, coaching and constructively challenging.

• A proactive, creative and solutions focused approach. Experience of developing and implementing innovative solutions to people development interventions.

• You’ll be a great organiser and driver, with a win-win approach to best out of our colleagues and managers through brilliant coaching and support to drive our strategy.

Stronger together

We do our best work when we’re ourselves. That’s why inclusion, wellbeing, and our diversity networks help make Home Group a great place to work!

The practical bits

• You’ll work Monday to Friday

• We work on a hybrid basis with 2 days per week in the office, the rest from home and some occasional travel and working from other locations

• Our office anchor day is Tuesday and the second day is up to you to meet the needs of your stakeholders

What’s in it for you?

• 34 days leave, rising to 39 (this includes bank holidays and a “me day”). The option to buy 5 more each year

• Health cash plan saving you (and children) £1140+ each year covering dental, opticians, prescriptions and more

• 800+ discounts on shops, holidays, days out, tech and more

• Work your way with flexibility to balance life and work

• Family friendly policies including maternity, paternity, adoption, neonatal, fertility and menopause support

Finally

For reasonable adjustments email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk. Roles can close early, so don’t delay applying. If you can’t see the Job Description at the top of this page, click APPLY to view it on our pages and find out more about us.

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