HR Change Consultant

Job Description

HR Change Consultant

• Shape and deliver people focused change across a large, complex organisation

• Join an award recognised workplace, including Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 and Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2026

• Hybrid working with up to 80% homeworking and 20% based at our Head Office in Stratford upon Avon

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR Change Professional to join NFU Mutual where you’ll work in partnership with our HR Centres of Excellence, Group Change teams and other business areas to support with the design and delivery of key change programmes driving the delivery and understanding on how best to deliver and embed organisational change.

Working within the Strategic HR Partnering and Consulting Team you will play a pivotal role providing key HR change and project consulting and partnering services to your stakeholders, including significant change management support, whilst playing an integral role in translating our HR strategy to local level deliverables. You’ll be influencing business stakeholders on best practice, providing commercially intelligent advice on a range of topics including TUPE and helping the business run effectively.

You will work closely with various teams across our Head Office to ensure there is a fair and consistent approach to all people related change activities, building, and maintaining strong relationships with people managers and stakeholders, supporting them to deliver on organisational change activities. You will confidently challenge, advise and influence stakeholders in relation to business change planning, delivery and embedding and will advise and guide people managers in the application of the Group’s people change principles. You will keep up to date with recent HR trends, issues and developments and utilise this information to provide the best guidance and support to your projects, programmes and business area.

You’ll join a collaborative, supportive HR Partnering & Consulting team where we prioritise clarity of accountabilities, shared toolkits and best practice, and clear objectives to keep work aligned and impactful. Expect autonomy within a clear framework, open feedback, and a culture of learning and improvement.

About you

You have demonstrable strategic HR Business Partnering/ Consulting experience, preferably within a Financial Services organisation where you have partnered and/ or provided consultancy services and delivered organisational change projects. Significant experience in consulting and delivering on organisational design and change is a must. With various streams of people change activity across the group at one time, you’ll understand the impact of change and how to manage it effectively and furthermore how to sustainably embed change. You will also have a consulting mindset—curious, commercial, and focused on measurable outcomes and continuous improvement

To join our team, you must also have.

• A proactive, analytical, and solutions-driven approach with the ability to translate business objectives into actionable HR initiatives and in translating HR Strategy into action


• Strong consulting skills, including needs assessment, problem-solving, project management, and the ability to provide actionable recommendations


• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills at all levels, with the ability to make trusted relationships and confidently challenge and influence

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Salary - up to £60,000 depending on experience


• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)


• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution


• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme


• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities


• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets


• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership – subject to T&Cs


• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more


• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance


• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year


• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme


• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary


• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.


• Salary sacrifice employee car scheme - subject to eligibility

Working at NFU Mutual

We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services organisations, and for over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us, so we’re proud to be recognised as “a great place to work”.

Our Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2025 award was not only awarded with Distinction, but it also marked us as the first UK based company to earn a Gallup Exceptional Workplace award for ten consecutive years. We’ve also been consistently recognised by Glassdoor. We appeared in the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK list in 2023, 2024 and 2026 — and in 2026, we were the highest ranked insurance business in the UK, highlighting our strong employee experience and the positive feedback our people share on the platform.

Additionally, we were named in the LinkedIn Top 15 Companies 2025 list of “Best midsize employers to grow your career in the UK”, and we’ve been certified as a UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026.

We offer a supportive and empowering culture where people are inspired to perform, given opportunities to grow, and recognised and rewarded for their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable—so we’re successful now and in the future.