HR Strategic Project Lead

HR Strategic Project Lead

Salary: £60,000
Contract: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Location: Home-based with occasional travel across Northamptonshire

The Opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to lead strategic people projects and organisation-wide change programmes that support long-term business objectives.

Working closely with senior leaders, you'll play a key role in turning strategic priorities into tangible outcomes, leading change from initial concept through to implementation and adoption. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys combining HR expertise, project management and change leadership to deliver lasting organisational improvements.

The Role

Reporting to the HR & Payroll Manager, you will lead complex HR and organisational change initiatives, ensuring projects are effectively governed, successfully delivered and embedded across the business.

You'll work closely with stakeholders at all levels to manage the people impact of change, build engagement, and ensure sustainable adoption of new ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic HR and organisation-wide change programmes from design through to implementation and adoption.
• Develop business cases, project plans, governance frameworks and success measures.
• Partner with senior leaders, operational teams and external stakeholders to deliver project outcomes.
• Lead all people change activities, including impact assessments, readiness planning, stakeholder engagement, communications and transition support.
• Monitor project risks, adoption rates and benefits realisation to ensure successful outcomes.
• Champion inclusive and ethical HR practices across all projects and initiatives.
• Support organisational capability and workforce effectiveness through people-focused change.
• Provide guidance on complex people matters, including restructures, organisational redesign and workforce change.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation, regulatory requirements and governance frameworks.
• Embed lasting behavioural and cultural change across the organisation.

About You

We're keen to speak with candidates who have:

• CIPD Level 5 qualification in HR Management or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience delivering complex organisational change programmes from business case through to implementation and adoption.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience influencing senior leaders.
• Experience developing project plans, governance frameworks and change strategies.
• Broad HR expertise, including employee relations, grievances, disciplinaries, restructuring, redundancy and TUPE.
• Strong knowledge of organisational development and change management principles.
• Experience managing communications, engagement, readiness and adoption activities.
• A data-led approach, using impact, risk and benefits information to drive decision-making.
• Excellent communication and change leadership skills.
• A genuine commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.

Why This Opportunity?

• Lead strategic organisation-wide programmes with visible business impact.
• Work closely with senior leadership teams and key decision-makers.
• Opportunity to shape employee experience, organisational capability and culture.
• High level of autonomy and ownership.
• Flexible home-based working arrangement.
• Broad role combining HR, organisational development, transformation and project leadership.

What They're Looking For

This role is best suited to someone who has successfully led large-scale organisational change and can quickly build credibility with senior stakeholders. You'll be comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, bringing strong HR expertise alongside proven project and change management experience.

The successful candidate will be able to drive programmes from concept through to adoption, managing both the operational and people aspects of change to deliver sustainable results.