Senior HR Business Partner

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and managers, providing expert HR guidance to support business objectives and people priorities.
• Develop your team, ensuring the function delivers a high-quality, consistent and commercially focused service across the business.
• Support and oversee organisational initiatives including restructures, TUPE transfers, organisational change and integration activities to support business growth and transformation.
• Act as an escalation point for complex employee relations matters, ensuring risks are managed effectively and advice is aligned to employment law and company policy.
• Partner with leaders to identify workforce requirements, succession planning needs and development opportunities, supporting talent management, apprenticeships, early careers and leadership development initiatives.
• Represent the business in union consultations and employee forums where required.
• Own the development, implementation and continuous improvement of HR policies, procedures and practices.
• Champion a high-performance culture by supporting and developing managers to lead their teams effectively, including coordinating and delivering targeted training initiatives.
• Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Manager to oversee recruitment activity, ensuring alignment with workforce planning and business needs.
• Lead and support HR projects and people initiatives, including succession planning, engagement, employee experience and continuous improvement activities.
• Support the HR Senior Manager on strategic priorities and provide leadership support across the wider HR function where required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an HR Manager or senior HR generalist role, ideally within a complex, multi-site or unionised environment.
• Strong track record of leading HR activity and delivering practical, business-focused people solutions.
• Sound knowledge of employment law, employee relations and HR best practice, with the ability to apply this confidently in a commercial environment.
• Experience supporting organisational change programmes including TUPE, restructures and business integration activities.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels, including trade unions and employee representatives.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to balance operational business priorities with people needs.
• Previous experience in a similar role - ideally CIPD Level 5 or Level 7 qualified (or equivalent).
• Customer-focused attitude with a high level of professionalism, discretion and attention to detail.

Certifications & Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5
• CIPD Level 7