HR Business Partner | Midlands | COOP

GXO Logistics; Liverpool City Region, St Helens; On-site; GBP 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company seeks an HR Business Partner to drive people strategy across multiple locations. This role involves strategic and operational HR support, engaging with stakeholders, and ensuring effective HR practices. The ideal candidate will have experience in employee relations and culture change, along with a CIPD qualification. The position offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

Company sponsored pension scheme

Private medical & dental insurance

24/7 online GP service

Life assurance

Employee assistance programme

High street discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Cashback cards

Saving scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in leading HR teams across multiple locations.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.

Responsibilities

• Drive engagement agenda and champion people-related change.
• Provide consultancy and advisory service to operational teams.
• Lead performance management and talent development programs.

Skills

Employee Relations

Culture Change

Communication

Education

CIPD qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced HR leader who prides yourself on your ability to effectively drive people strategy across several locations? Ready for a new challenge? Do you want to make a difference?

We're looking for a full-time, permanent, HR Business Partner to join us on a national basis to support our Coop contract. The Business Partner will provide both strategic and operational HR support, to our Customer, Operations Director and Contract General Manager and overseeing a total of over 900 colleagues, across sites based at Andover, Avonmouth and Lea Green. You will also be working alongside a great HR team, with responsibility for supporting the design and delivery of a consistent framework for people-related activity within the Coop Contract and the wider business.

Ideally, based in the midlands or north west with travel expected to the other sites. You will be working Monday to Friday; however, flexibility is required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

We're looking to offer a salary of up to£65,000.00 per annum, aswell as a bonus and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You'll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you'll do on a typical day:

• Work closely with Internal and external stake holders to integrate HR practices, drive the engagement agenda, and champion people-related change and organisational design activities
• Act as a confidant, influencer, and enabler, for the Operations Director and Contract General Manager, allowing them to make calculated, evidenced and commercially focused people-related decisions
• Ensure that our site HR teams are providing an effective and efficient consultancy and advisory service to our operational teams, acting as a key mentor, coach, and go-to escalation point
• Facilitate, lead, and drive programmes such as performance management, talent and succession management, recognition, engagement surveys, learning & development, and policy updates

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Be an experienced HR Partner particularly around Employee Relations and Culture change programmes.
• CIPD qualification would be preferable

• A background in leading a HR team and overseeing HR activity across multiple locations within logistics, distribution, or supply chain operations
• The ability to effectively communicate with and influence a variety of internal and external stakeholders at all levels and via a variety of mediums
• A genuine belief in, and commitment to, delivering a great colleague experience across all people related activity including colleague involvement, wellbeing, D,I & B and Communications
• Experience of working and negotiating with Trade Unions

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

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