How we do it
We are the competitive advantage: searching, consulting and assessing every client and candidate individually.
There is no broadstroke analysis of the market. We use targeted searches, have an in-depth understanding of specialist and generalists, and access to a diverse network of personal contacts developed over 20 years of hands-on experience.
Who we work with
We work with FTSE 100 organisations, private equity-backed enterprises and new challenger brand businesses across the commercial sector.
Delivering C-Suite, Leadership and Mid-Management hires, we resource, assess and select talent across the employee lifecycle using our unparalleled HR network cultivated from 20 years in the field.
Latest Opportunities
View allSenior People Partner
- Type: Senior People Partner
- Location: United KingdomEast Midlands
This is a high-impact, strategic role for someone who thrives in complex, unionised environments and wants work that genuinely matters. Live pay negotiation. Terms harmonisation following significant business change. Real cultural shift to drive across unionised sites. The stakeholder landscape is demanding, and the scope for influence is significant, this is a role where a confident, experienced BP can make a lasting mark.
To be the right fit, you’ll be a proven strategic HR Business Partner operating at a genuinely senior level, with deep, hands-on union experience, owning the relationship and the room, not sitting on the periphery. You’ll have full ownership of pay negotiation, from building the business case and working with site leadership through to costing the position and negotiating it to conclusion. And you’ll bring the credibility and confidence to challenge upward and push back into strong, established leadership cultures.
If you’re an experienced BP energised by complexity and ready for a role with real strategic weight behind it, get in touch for a confidential conversation.
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CPO (Financial Services)
- Type: Permanent
- Location: UKHybrid: Bristol 3 days, 2 Remote
Most CPO roles come with a seat at the top table on paper. Far fewer come with a Chief Executive who genuinely wants a partner in shaping strategy, not just an executor of it — and fewer still come with a remit this broad, spanning HR, Property & Facilities, ESG and Internal Communications. This is one of those rarer opportunities, at a specialist, highly regulated financial services organisation employing c.1000 colleagues. This is not a role about keeping the HR function ticking over; it is about leading the people agenda through the next phase of maturity, post-integration. Our client has a genuine, values-led sense of purpose that runs through everything it does, with the customer experience sitting at the heart of every major decision, giving the business a clarity of mission that is rare in the sector, and it’s time to hand the next chapter to a new CPO.
This is a full Executive Committee seat, not a supporting function: principal adviser to the CEO, active co-author of business strategy, and owner of that breadth of remit, leading a sizeable team. Internal communications is used deliberately here, connecting every employee’s day-to-day role to the wider customer journey and to the outcomes customers experience — making this a genuinely commercial, not just cultural, part of the brief. You will join a well-integrated, collaborative Executive team that works effectively together and values challenge as much as consensus, led by a Chief Executive who is visibly invested in employee experience as a business imperative. The business is still on its journey following a period of significant organisational change, and the next CPO will not inherit a finished story — they will help write it, with real scope to leave a lasting mark on the organisation’s next chapter.
Read onDirector of People and Culture
- Type: Permanent
- Location: UKLondon
You are a people professional who operates as a genuine business partner. You understand commercial performance and you translate people work into business outcomes. You see your role as building the environment in which exceptional work happens. You are assertive and confident, while remaining genuinely warm and people-centred in the way you lead. You are ambitious, both for the organisation you join and for your own career, and you are ready to make your mark on two high-profile and exacting environments.
A background in multi-site, fast-paced organisations will serve you well here. The sector you come from matters far less than your ability to move quickly, hold complexity and bring people with you.
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Debbie worked with me on the search for a Group HR Director. From the initial briefing to the final candidate interviews the process was clear, structured, quick and highly professional. One of Debbie's key strengths is to really understand the needs of her customers. And this came through in the strength of the short list of candidates she delivered. Overall a great customer experience and hence I can only recommend Varna HR Resourcing unreservedly.
Klaus Goeldenbot, Group Chief Executive Officer