Global HR Business Partner, Axway
£100-120k
Annual Performance-based Incentive
1-2 days a week in office
API management platform & IT infrastructure solutions
Open for applications
API management platform & IT infrastructure solutions
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£100-120k
Annual Performance-based Incentive
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help businesses make good decisions about their digital strategy.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in HR, Business, or Organizational Development preferred
- 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including significant time as a senior HRBP in a complex, global, product-oriented business
- Demonstrated experience partnering directly with senior (L2+) leaders on strategic people initiatives
- Proven track record leading workforce planning, organizational design, and capability-building initiatives
- Experience driving medium- to long-term talent and skills strategies (3–5 year horizon)
- Strong business and commercial acumen; understands product lifecycle and innovation drivers
- Expertise in organization design, workforce strategy, and talent development
- Data-savvy; able to use insights to shape strategic decisions
- Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Global mindset with the ability to operate across regions, functions, and cultures
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and coaching capabilities
- Strategic, future-focused, and solutions-oriented
- Trusted advisor and thought partner to senior leaders
- Able to balance long-term vision with pragmatic execution
- Collaborative and adept at working across the HR ecosystem
- Passionate about building capability and driving organizational success through people
What the job involves
- The Global HR Business Partner (HRBP) acts as the strategic HR partner to senior leaders (L2) within a product-focused organization
- This role may align with one leader or multiple leaders, depending on the specific scope
- The role partners closely with the business to ensure the people and organization strategy fully enable delivery of the Business Unit operating plan, while also anticipating and shaping the 3–5 year talent and capability agenda
- As a single point of contact for L2-level business leaders, the Global HRBP collaborates with Corporate HR, Centers of Excellence (COEs), and Country HR teams to drive organizational design, capability building, workforce strategy, and leadership development at a global scale
- Serve as the primary HR partner to designated L2 senior leaders, acting as a trusted advisor on all strategic people matters
- Translate the Business Unit operating plan into a comprehensive people strategy, ensuring workforce capability, structure, and culture are aligned to business goals
- Partner with leaders to drive organizational performance, leadership effectiveness, and talent readiness to deliver future priorities
- Use people data, analytics, and insights to shape decisions around workforce, organization, and talent
- Lead the development and execution of the “Build, Buy, Borrow, Bot” workforce strategy — ensuring the right skills and capabilities are available to meet current and future business needs
- Partner with COEs and business leaders to define critical roles and skill clusters for the next 3–5 years, identifying gaps and building targeted strategies to address them
- Support business leaders in leveraging automation and digital solutions (“Bot”) to enhance productivity and workforce agility
- Drive succession planning, leadership development, and talent mobility to ensure strong internal pipelines for key and emerging roles
- Partner with the Talent COE to design and implement programs that address future leadership and skill needs
- Coach and challenge senior leaders to enhance team effectiveness and strengthen leadership capability globally
- Lead organizational design initiatives to ensure fit-for-purpose structures that enable agility, efficiency, and innovation
- Partner with business leaders to assess and enhance organizational effectiveness, decision-making processes, and role clarity
- Drive change management and cultural alignment efforts in partnership with Corporate HR and Communications
- Identify and anticipate 3–5 year talent trends, workforce shifts, and skill requirements impacting the business
- Develop and communicate insights on external market trends, emerging roles, and future capabilities needed to sustain competitive advantage
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and L&D COEs to future-proof the organization’s talent pipelines and capability strategies
- Work seamlessly with COEs (Talent, Reward, Learning, DEI, etc.) and Country HR teams to deliver globally consistent yet locally relevant HR solutions
- Ensure that corporate HR programs and policies are tailored to meet the needs of the business while maintaining global alignment and compliance
- Provide feedback from the business to inform the design and prioritization of global HR initiatives
- Success Measures:
- Alignment of people and organization strategy with business outcomes
- Strength of future talent pipelines and critical skill coverage
- Organizational effectiveness and agility improvements
- Quality of partnership and influence with L2 leadership
- Execution and impact of workforce planning and organizational design strategies
Our take
As the digital migration of enterprises accelerates, companies must be increasingly cautious about the safety and security of their data. As part of the transference of data, sensitive information must often pass across multiple old and new technologies, putting it at risk. Axway provides tools that integrate and move data securely.
Ahead of the digitisation curve, Axway’s 20 years of experience in the API management sector have helped it develop several key products. Its Amplify Platform helps companies reduce the complexity of APIs and encourages their adoption. Its Axway B2B Integration platform enables crucial EDI and API integration flows for multinational corporations, which are most at risk of lost, leaked or stolen data.
Through its secure, flexible and compliant tools, Axway helps large companies process tens of billions of dollars annually. Its consistency and ability to keep pace with tech developments is what has enabled Axway to maintain a strong post-IPO position within its sector.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company benefits
- Personal development plan and training plan
- Private medical insurance with dental included
- Flexible working hours when needed and remote work policy (60% remote work)
- Friendly working environment with experienced professionals
- Potential for growth in an international company
- Extra paid vacation days – 25 days/year
- Open games area – table tennis, sports and more!
- Benefits such as gym access, Bookster, Safari, Amazon – E-library, Udemy platform
- Team-buildings, Fun Day, Christmas Party etc.
Company HQ
Kierland, Phoenix, AZ
Leadership
Patrick Donovan
(Group CEO)Previously CFO at Axway, VP of Finance at iCrossing and Director of Finance at Quality Care Solutions and Optika. Was also a General Accounting Manager at Western Pacific Airlines.
Roland Royer
(Company CEO)Previously the Chief Customer Officer at the company. Before that, they were a Product Manager at sneda and Presales Consultant at COFET.
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