Fractional HR leadership
Fractional HR Consultants for Senior People Support
Senior HR strategy guidance and advisory support, partnering with your existing HR leaders and teams to strengthen your people function.
P&T provides fractional HR consultant support for fast-growing and scaling organisations. We work as a strategic advisory partner alongside your HR Director, CPO or leadership team; bringing the senior-level expertise, commercial thinking and hands-on guidance needed to build and scale a high-performing people function.
Senior, flexible support
What Is a Fractional HR Consultant?
A fractional HR consultant provides senior HR strategy and advisory expertise on a flexible, retained or project basis; partnering with your existing HR leadership and team to strengthen capability, sharpen strategy and support delivery.
Thirty minutes with a senior P&T consultant could be the most valuable half-hour you spend on your people strategy this year.
Flexible
Retained or project basis
Senior
Director and board-level experience
Collaborative
Alongside the team you already have
Who It Is For
Senior input when it matters most.
Fractional HR consultant support from P&T is for fast-growing and scaling organisations that need senior HR strategy and advisory expertise on a flexible basis, without the commitment of a permanent hire.
We typically work with:
- CEOs, MDs and founders who need commercially grounded people strategy input at board level
- HR Directors / CPOs who need a senior advisory partner with board-level HR and commercial experience
- Leadership teams navigating rapid growth, change or organisational complexity
- Organisations where people strategy, structure and capability need to keep pace with business ambition
Challenges We Help You Solve
Signs you could benefit from some fractional HR expertise
Fast-growing organisations working with P&T typically face one or more of these challenges:
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Rapid Growth
People strategy is falling behind business growth.
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Lack of Capacity
HR is absorbed in day-to-day delivery with no capacity for strategic priorities.
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HR Input Required
Critical decisions, around technology, organisation design, change or talent, are being made without senior HR input.
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Wider Experience Beneficial
Leadership and management capability needs to strengthen to support performance and growth.
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Flexible Support Needed
The business needs senior HR expertise on a flexible basis, without committing to a permanent hire.
What our support can include
Areas we can help support your organisation
Depending on your organisation’s needs and priorities, fractional HR consultant support from P&T can span any combination of the following:
HR strategy and people planning
Organisation design and operating model development
Leadership and management development
Performance and talent frameworks
Change management and workforce planning
HR technology strategy and system selection guidance
Senior advisory support and challenge for HR Directors, CPOs and leadership teams
HR team capability building and mentoring
How Engagements Work
HR support built around your priorities.
Every engagement starts with understanding your business goals, people strategy and HR priorities; then we agree a scope and working rhythm that fits. Engagements run on a retained or project basis. Each engagement is led by a senior P&T consultant, working as an extension of your leadership team.
Understand the business
We start with your goals, growth trajectory, people strategy and the priorities that need senior attention.
Agree the right model
Retained or project-based, with a scope and working rhythm agreed upfront to fit your organisation.
Work as part of the leadership team
A senior P&T consultant becomes an extension of your team, providing strategic input, challenge and practical support.
“We maintained an open, two-sided feedback loop that allowed us to continuously improve our project management and strengthen our working relationship.”
The P&T team
Strategic HR leadership that has operated at the highest levels.
P&T consultants bring a depth of HR and commercial experience that is rarely found in a single advisory team. Our consultants have held Director and Board Level HR roles in some of the world’s most complex and demanding organisations, such as CPO and Chief Learning Officer, and have spent decades building, leading and transforming people functions at scale. That experience is what sets P&T apart. When we work with your organisation, you are not engaging a generalist HR consultant. You are accessing the calibre of strategic HR leadership that has operated at the highest levels of the profession and applying it directly to your business challenges.
Years of hands-on HR technology experience across leading HRIS platforms
Expertise That Makes a Difference
Our consultants have worked across a wide range of fast-growing and scaling organisations — bringing the tools, frameworks and strategic thinking typically found in major enterprises and applying them to the pace and ambition of growing businesses. Their expertise spans:
- HR strategy, people planning and organisation design at Director and board level
- HR technology strategy, system selection and implementation, with 25+ years of hands-on experience across leading HRIS platforms
- Leadership development, talent frameworks and management capability building
- Change management and workforce transformation in large, complex organisations
- Senior advisory and coaching support for HR Directors, CPOs and leadership teams
Our ways of working
How P&T Fractional HR Support Compares
The key distinction is the relationship. P&T fractional HR support is designed as an ongoing senior advisory partnership with your existing leaders and team.
| P&T Model P&T Fractional HR Support | Ad Hoc HR Consultancy | Full-Time Hire | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement Model | Retained or project — agreed upfront to fit your organisation | As and when required | Permanent |
| Seniority | Director and board-level | Varies | Varies |
| Focus | Strategic HR advisory — partnering with your existing HR leaders and teams | Reactive, taskbased support | Operational & Strategic |
| Flexibility | Agreed scope and working rhythm — retained or project | Unstructured, no ongoing commitment | Fixed commitment |
| Relationship | Dedicated senior consultant — an extension of your leadership team | No dedicated resource | Employed team member |
| Best for | Fast-growing organisations needing senior HR strategy and advisory support — an alternative to an outsourced HR director or fractional CPO | Occasional, one-off HR tasks | Organisations ready for a permanent hire |
“John’s tailored, hands-on support made the whole process feel like a true partnership, giving us confidence at every stage of the transition.”
Let’s chat
Sound Like Something
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FAQs
Fractional HR consultant questions
What organisations usually want to know before bringing in senior fractional HR support.
What is a fractional HR consultant?
A fractional HR consultant, also referred to as a fractional HR director or CPO, provides senior HR strategy and advisory expertise on a flexible basis, partnering with your existing HR leadership and leadership team. Fractional HR support from P&T is focused on strengthening your people strategy and HR capability, not replacing or filling HR roles.
How is a fractional HR consultant different from an interim HR consultant?
An interim HR consultant typically fills a vacant HR role on a fixed-term basis. Fractional HR consultant support from P&T is different. We work as an ongoing strategic advisory partner alongside your existing HR team and leaders, focused on people strategy, capability and performance rather than role fulfilment or operational cover.
How many days per month can we use?
That depends on your organisation’s needs and the engagement model. Retained engagements are agreed upfront with a day commitment that fits your working rhythm and priorities. Projectbased engagements are scoped to the specific piece of work. In both cases, we agree the time commitment at the outset.
Can fractional HR support help with strategy and systems?
Yes. P&T brings HR strategy and HR technology expertise together in one team. Fractional HR engagements can span people strategy, organisation design, HR technology decisions and change management; providing your HR leaders and leadership team with joined-up advisory support across all the areas that matter most.
Do you work on a retained or project basis?
Both. P&T offers fractional HR consultant support on a retained basis (where we work alongside your HR leaders and leadership team on an ongoing basis over an agreed period) and on a project basis for defined pieces of HR strategy or advisory work. We agree the right model based on your organisation’s needs and priorities.
What size of organisation is fractional HR consultant support best suited to?
P&T works with fast-growing and scaling organisations across the UK, typically between 500 and 5,000 employees. These are organisations where people strategy, HR capability and leadership development have a material impact on business performance and where access to senior HR advisory support makes a measurable difference.
Can fractional HR support work alongside an existing HR team?
Yes, and this is how P&T typically works. Our fractional HR consultant support is designed to work alongside your existing HR team and HR leaders, not replace them. We provide the senior strategic direction, specialist expertise and advisory challenge that complements and strengthens the team you already have in place.
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