Senior HR Business Partner

We are exclusively partnering with a leading hedge fund to hire an experienced Senior HR Business Partner within a newly created position to support its Fixed Income and Macro Fund business. Arguably, this is one of the organisation’s highest performing and largest revenue generating group who have ambitious growth plans over the next few years. Reporting into the Head of People sitting in New York, you will have ownership and autonomy across the group in London and Paris, and partner closely with high-calibre senior stakeholders across both offices to drive growth and deliver consistent HR practice.

This is a high-impact role for someone who brings strong judgement, business acumen, and the ability to move seamlessly between strategic thinking and execution. The successful candidate will build credibility through the quality of their insights and work, bring diverse perspectives together and enable better decision-making, and take ownership of advancing critical talent and organisational priorities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as a Senior People Partner to EMEA leaders, providing commercially focused advice aligned to business objectives, talent, and performance.
• Anticipate business and talent challenges, provide independent perspective and constructive challenge, and turn insight into action.
• Balance global consistency with local market, talent, business, and regulatory considerations.
• Partner with leaders on workforce planning, organisational design, succession, talent assessment, and organisational health.
• Identify talent and leadership risks and opportunities, strengthening development, retention, and succession pipelines.
• Coach leaders through performance, development, succession, and complex talent decisions.
• Partner with business leaders, Compensation, and People leadership on compensation, promotions, and year-end talent decisions.
• Bring together performance, market, organisational, and talent insights to support sound, well-informed decisions.
• Provide advice on complex and sensitive talent matters, considering business needs, employee impact, risk, and long-term organisational health.
• Use quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, challenge assumptions, and translate insights into clear recommendations.
• Own key talent and organisational priorities end-to-end, from defining the problem and developing a point of view through execution and measurement.
• Partner closely with the Head of People and global People teams to shape business priorities, address talent risks, and evolve the People operating model.
• Ensure regional insights inform global priorities and enterprise programs translate effectively across EMEA.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required, with 10+ years of progressive HR experience and a track record as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders.
• Significant experience supporting businesses across EMEA, ideally across multiple countries and diverse markets.
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen, with the ability to translate business priorities into effective talent and organisational solutions.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn data into actionable insights and measure impact.
• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through execution.
• Excellent communication skills, with the judgment and executive presence to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• High judgment, intellectual curiosity, and strong situational awareness, with the ability to challenge constructively, build alignment, and navigate ambiguity.
• Collaborative, low-ego, and highly accountable, with a strong bias for action and a commitment to high-quality outcomes.

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