Global People Lead – Global Business Lines

Department: Enabling : People and Development

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Description

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership: Act as the primary People & Talent partner for Global Business Lines, collaborating directly with Business Line Leads and senior leadership teams.
• Executive Counsel: Provide strategic guidance on global organizational design, workforce planning, capability building, and talent strategy.
• Strategy Execution: Translate overall business strategy into clear people priorities, structured roadmaps, and actionable plans.
• Stakeholder Influence: Challenge and influence senior leaders to guarantee sustainable, scalable, and performance-driven people decisions.
• Change Leadership: Support leadership teams through complex transformations, organizational growth, and change initiatives.

• Future-Proofing: Partner with leaders to forecast future capability and talent requirements aligned with global growth objectives.
• Talent Management: Lead or contribute to global workforce planning, succession planning, and talent reviews across Business Lines.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify risks within structures, capabilities, or operating models, and propose pragmatic, data-driven solutions.
• COE Collaboration: Work closely with Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and Reward teams to deliver integrated, end-to-end people solutions.

• Model Embedding: Play a key role in defining and implementing global people operating models across Business Lines.
• Process Optimization: Support the design and rollout of global initiatives focused on ways of working, governance, automation, and standardization.
• Change Advocacy: Act as a change leader to ensure clarity, high adoption rates, and strong engagement across all regions and stakeholders.
• Operational Alignment: Balance strategic vision with operational reality to ensure initiatives are executed effectively on the ground.

• Data-Driven Insights: Utilize people and talent metrics to provide deep insights, challenge assumptions, and guide decision-making.
• Data Integrity: Partner with People Ops and Centers of Excellence (COEs) to maintain data quality and consistency across all systems.
• Executive Reporting: Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives and actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Experience: Extensive experience in a senior HR Business Partner (HRBP) role within a global, matrix-structured organization.
• Stakeholder Management: A proven track record of successfully partnering with executive-level stakeholders and global leadership teams.
• Adaptability & Execution: Demonstrated ability to balance high-level strategy with hands-on execution within fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Change Management: Solid experience driving organizational transformations, operating model changes, or scaling up environments.
• Business Acumen: High level of commercial awareness and a deep understanding of business operations.
• Data Literacy: Fully comfortable leveraging data and analytics to influence business decisions.

• Strategic yet Hands-on: Ability to transition seamlessly between big-picture strategic thinking and granular operational details.
• Credibility & Influence: High professional credibility with the ability to influence and guide senior leadership.
• Results-Oriented: Pragmatic approach with a strong bias for action and a focus on delivering tangible results.
• Thrives in Ambiguity: Comfortable navigating ambiguity and fast-paced environments, with the skill to bring structure to complex situations.
• Collaborative & Global Mindset: Strong stakeholder management skills coupled with a global perspective and collaborative approach.
• Integrity & Judgment: Demonstrates the highest standards of integrity, sound judgment, and absolute discretion at all times.

Job Benefits

• Work within a highly motivated team in an innovative and rapidly growing global company 
• Opportunity to have a direct impact and be a key part of the growth and development of the business and the team 
• Work solely on projects that have an impact on the sustainability and climate change goals/challenges for clients 
• Opportunity to work with, collaborate with and learn from sustainability SME’s who are passionate about the work they do and the impact Anthesis can have 
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and projects on a global basis 
• Competitive salary in line with, experience and skills 
• Competitive benefits including flexible working, 25 days holiday and two volunteering days off and the day off for your Birthday! 
• An opportunity to participate in the Anthesis Employee Participation Plan (EPP), an industry-pioneering employee incentive plan that allows all employees to be rewarded for the growth in the equity value of Anthesis. 
• Cooperative, supportive and open working atmosphere.