Job Description
Human Resources Business Partner - corporate functions\n\nLocation: South Midlands (Hybrid 2-3 days a week in the office)\n\nSalary: £45-68,000 + car allowance + benefits\n\nYou will be responsible for delivering a best-practice HR programme across multiple functional areas including Finance, IT, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service, Legal, H&S, strategy & Procurement. Through strong stakeholder engagement, you will partner with functional leadership, driving business performance by coaching and developing managers, and ensuring alignment with the wider HR strategy and company goals. You will be responsible for department restructures and OD work attached to this.\n\nThe role is critical in fostering collaboration and partnership with broader HR teams, ensuring a unified and cohesive approach to delivering HR services.
The role will have ownership of the employee lifecycle, talent management, and local HR initiatives, while leveraging the expertise of Centres of Excellence (CoE) for recruitment, talent development, and learning & development (L&D).\n\nThe role:\n\nDeliver a high-quality HR service across Head Office, ensuring alignment with the overall HR strategy and business needs.\n\nAct as a trusted advisor to regional leadership, providing HR expertise and coaching to improve leadership capabilities and team performance.\n\nOwn the full employee lifecycle within the region, ensuring seamless implementation of HR processes from recruitment to offboarding\n\nBuild strong, collaborative relationships with CoE teams, ensuring a collaborative approach to HR service delivery.\n\nWork in partnership with the Talent Acquisition team, maintaining accountability for recruitment outcomes while leveraging CoE support for sourcing and selection strategies.\n\nPartner with the Talent Management and L&D teams to design and deliver regional talent initiatives that align with the wider HR strategy and address local needs\n\nTake ownership of the regional talent management strategy, working with central teams to drive engagement, succession planning, and career development.\n\nDevelop and implement initiatives to identify and nurture high-potential employees, ensuring they contribute to the organisation's talent pipeline.\n\nSupport managers in building robust development plans for their teams, aligned with business priorities.\n\nCollaborate with the L&D team to assess training needs and deliver tailored development programs.\n\nPartner L&D to ensure effective execution of training initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous learning\n\nAct as a compliance champion, ensuring adherence to internal policies, procedures, and external regulations, including EDI (Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion) standards.\n\nCoach and influence key stakeholders to maintain accountability for their people management practices, ensuring alignment with company values and the code of conduct\n\nAnalyse HR metrics and business trends to identify opportunities for improvement and inform strategic decision-making.\n\nTailor HR interventions to address regional challenges while remaining consistent with the overall HR strategy\n\nDrive the implementation of HR deliverables, including EDI, talent development, and compliance, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and regional needs.\n\nProvide expert guidance and oversight on complex employee relations (ER) issues and cases.\n\nSupport managers and HR Advisors in handling ER cases with professionalism, ensuring a balanced approach to business risks while maintaining legal compliance.\n\nStrengthen functional capability by proactively identifying, addressing, and managing potential ER situations before they escalate.\n\nThe people:\n\nDegree educated or equivalent\n\nProfessional accreditation (qualified to level 7 or working towards) with associated operational experience across the full employee lifecycle: ER, Recruitment and development, Engagement.\n\nProgressive HR experience gained within head office functions\n\nExtensive experience in complex HR roles.\n\nProven track record in talent management, employee engagement, and delivery of HR strategies.\n\nExperience in communicating effectively at all levels, including senior management across the business.\n\nStrong influencing and decision-making skills, to be exercised throughout all levels of the business, and externally, enabling stakeholders to manage performance and to optimise decision making.\n\nA strong focus on compliance, governance and extensive knowledge of HR best practice and employment law\n\nExperience in managing and delivering HR change programmes.\n\nIs personally credible - HR professional with leadership behaviours that develop respect and trust in decision making.\n\nStrategic thinker with the ability to think beyond the 'here and now’ and consider the wider implications of decisions to the wider business.\n\nPractical experience of providing HR analysis and support to Business Stakeholders, enabling them to manage performance and to optimise decision making.\n\nStrong aptitude for interpreting HR data and using this to inform analysis, options and decisions.\n\nExperience of mentoring and coaching.\n\nExperience and ability to effectively influence and challenge key stakeholder to ensure compliance and consistency.\n\nStrong project management skills and deadline focus.\n\nManagement of change focus including assessing change readiness and appropriate risk mitigation.\n\nWorking at pace with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy\n\nTo apply please email your CV