Senior HR Consultant

Step into a role that blends strategic thinking with hands-on HR delivery. As our Senior HR Consultant, you’ll work closely with senior leaders to shape culture, engagement, and talent strategy

This person can be based in our Bath office on a hybrid working model. 

At Buro Happold, we believe our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for an experienced and proactive HR Consultant / Senior HR Consultant to join our UK team on a 9–12-month maternity cover. This is an exciting opportunity to influence people strategy, partner with senior leaders, and make a meaningful impact across our UK disciplines.

About The Role

As a trusted HR business partner, you will provide expert guidance to employees, line managers and leaders across the UK business. You will play a vital role in delivering robust, pragmatic and timely HR support within our global people framework.

Your expertise will help drive operational excellence, foster a positive employee experience, and support strong, inclusive leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to Discipline Directors, Discipline Leads and Unit Leads on operational and strategic HR matters.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with line managers and employees, ensuring consistent communication and advice.
• Manage complex employee relations cases, including formal absence management and occupational health referrals.
• Analyse absence, engagement and other people-related data to identify trends and provide insights to senior leadership.
• Support Talent Acquisition with recruitment approvals and reward recommendations.
• Partner with Reward to deliver salary review, bonus cycles, equal pay audits and salary benchmarking.
• Support twice-yearly promotion cycles, including moderation and bias-interrupter activity.
• Plan and facilitate People Consultancy discussions, producing high-quality insight reports.
• Act as a Level 1 SMS user and manage sponsorship activity, including issuing certificates of sponsorship.
• Support secondments and international assignment processes.
• Act as the first point of contact for EDI issues within your business areas; work closely with EDI champions and working groups.
• Share Culture Audit and survey insights, contributing to engagement and retention strategies.
• Deputise for the Lead HR Consultant in discipline-specific meetings, including preparation for data and discipline reviews.
• Collaborate with Finance and Reward to ensure accurate workforce planning and budgeting. 

What We Are Looking For: 

• Strong HR knowledge, including UK employment law, best practice, complex ER case management and performance/promotion processes.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to build trusted senior relationships and present clear, concise insights.
• Analytical and data-driven, able to interpret trends and support reward cycles (salary review, bonus).
• Collaborative, adaptable and confident managing varied priorities, deputising when needed, and supporting EDI and engagement activity.
• CIPD Level 3/5 (or equivalent) or working towards; degree desirable.

Why Join Buro Happold?

At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.

What we Offer You: 

Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world’s most respected consultancies.

• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Attractive salary and benefits package including, private medical insurance, life assurance and income protection.
• 10% Car allowance.
• Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts.
• Enhanced parenthood leave policies.
• 3pm finish on the last Friday of the month.
• A strong commitment to your continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you.
• Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions.
• A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities. A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring.
• An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won’t be far from the exceptional.

Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
 A place for everyone

Buro Happold values individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. 

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