Senior People Partner - Academy

Overview

At La Fosse Academy, we're on a mission to change the face of technology. We create opportunities for people who might never have seen a path into tech, supporting them through training, mentoring and real roles with leading organisations. Our Academy Associates go on to build careers in technology while delivering real impact for our clients.

To support this, we're looking for a Senior People Partner who will sit at the heart of the Academy community, working closely with our Associates, our internal teams and our client partners.

This is a highly visible and commercially focused role. You ll partner with Academy leadership and client stakeholders to ensure our Associates are engaged, performing and supported throughout their journey. The work you do will directly influence learner outcomes, client experience and the long-term commercial success of the Academy.

You'll operate across the full lifecycle of our Associates, from intake and onboarding through deployment, development and exit, ensuring our people strategy supports both individual success and business performance.

Partnering with leaders and clients to drive performance. You''ll act as a trusted advisor to Academy leadership and Engagement Leads, helping translate business goals into people strategies that drive engagement, retention and performance. You''ll also work closely with client partners where Associates are deployed, ensuring strong relationships, clear expectations and positive outcomes for both the Associate and the customer. Using people data, insights and trends, you''ll help leaders make informed decisions that support learner success while protecting the commercial performance and reputation of the Academy.

You''ll play a key role in shaping the experience of our Academy Associates across the entire lifecycle. From onboarding and deployment to development and progression, you''ll ensure Associates feel supported, connected and set up to succeed in both the Academy environment and within client organisations. This means balancing the needs of the individual, the client and the business, ensuring the experience works commercially as well as culturally.

You''ll act as the senior point of expertise for complex employee relations matters across the Academy population, managing cases with professionalism, credibility and sound judgement. Working closely with Engagement Leads and Academy leadership, you''ll coach and support managers to confidently address people challenges early, helping protect both employee experience and commercial outcomes.

The Academy is a high-energy, fast-moving environment. You''ll design and deliver engagement initiatives that strengthen connection, inclusion and belonging across Associate cohorts. You''ll also work with leaders to proactively address retention, attendance and performance challenges, ensuring Associates remain engaged and able to deliver strong outcomes for our clients.

We''re looking for someone who combines strong people partnering capability with commercial awareness and who enjoys working in environments where people development and business performance go hand in hand.

You'll likely bring:

• Experience operating as a Senior People Partner or People Lead in a fast-paced environment
• A strong track record of managing complex employee relations cases with confidence and credibility
• Experience working closely with senior stakeholders and customer-facing teams
• Exposure to apprenticeship, training, or train-and-deploy business models
• Strong stakeholder management and coaching capability
• Solid knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• The ability to balance employee experience, risk and commercial outcomes
• Comfort operating both strategically and hands-on

Most importantly, you''ll be someone who cares about creating opportunities for people while ensuring those opportunities translate into real performance and impact for our clients.

The Academy is one of the most exciting parts of La Fosse. Every year we help hundreds of people build careers in technology while delivering value for our clients. This role plays a central part in making that possible.

You''ll sit at the intersection of people, performance and commercial outcomes, helping shape an environment where Associates can succeed and where our clients continue to trust us to deliver exceptional talent.

If you want to combine meaningful work, commercial impact and community, we''d love to hear from you.

• Annual Leave:
  Up to 30 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays, your birthday off, and a Christmas closure period.
• Hybrid Working Model:
  We work 3 days a week from our London office, with 2 weeks per year to work from anywhere.
• Annual Company Ski Trip:
  All-company ski trip open to everyone.
• Wellness Perks:
  Subsidised gym membership and weekly in-office massages.
• Mental…