HR Business Partner

NATS; Knowle; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leading pension scheme

Car allowance

Private health

Income protection

Life assurance

Job summary

NATS is looking for a dedicated individual to drive the People and Organisation strategy across various business areas. The role involves coaching senior leaders, managing the people plan, and ensuring compliance with policies.

You will act as a key liaison between HR and specific business units, facilitating change and promoting a high-performance culture. Candidates should have a strong background in HR, excellent consultancy skills, and significant change management experience.

Qualifications

• Senior practitioner level across a full spectrum of HR knowledge areas.
• Experience working with trade unions.
• Ability to analyze data with commercial insights.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Champion the People and Organisation strategy for assigned areas.
• Act as a coach and advisor to senior leaders.
• Manage people plans and the local ER environment.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation and company policy.

Skills

Full spectrum of people/HR knowledge

Trade union experience

Commercial and business acumen

Strong data analysis skills

Consultancy skills

Change management knowledge

Project management experience

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

Job description

Salary - Negotiable, plus NATS benefits; including a leading pension scheme, car allowance, private health, income protection, life assurance.

Closing date - 2nd July 2026.

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. We also provide a wide range of commercial products and solutions internationally. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

Job Purpose

This role will champion and drive the People and Organisation strategy in their assigned business areas, acting as a focal point for change for NATS. This person will stand as a coach and sounding board for senior people leaders within their business areas, providing commercially tuned advice, expert insight, and leading/delivering and advising on people-based change projects. This person will manage the people plan and local ER environment for their business area.

Other Duties Include

• Acts as the key liaison between a business area and the wider HR function and as a champion for the People and Organisation agenda, including sitting and advising on LT meetings
• Own the people plan for assigned area, including support for: transformation activity, OD, talent and succession, development of potential and talent segments, identification of talent gaps and learning requirements
• Manage and own the local ER environment, including delivery and local ER resolution (accountable for flagging ER risks)
• Support people-related business activity, driving efficiency, the NATS values, development initiatives and culture changes (whilst also ensuring employment legislation and NATS policy compliance), including promoting a high-performance culture
• Liaise with SMEs and business area to deliver and provide feedback loop on wider HR projects
• Promote policy deployment and implementation plans, ensure business feedback into policy through development stage, and promote policy compliance
• Oversee and/ or manage complex or significant cases as required
• Focal point/ project lead: in addition to their partner focus, acts as a HR wide focal point or project lead on specific activity supporting functional or business wide activity

Essential Qualifications, skills and experience

• Senior practitioner level on a full spectrum of people/HR knowledge areas (including employment law, OD, D&I, PM, L&D, ER etc)
• Trade union experience
• High levels of commercial and business acumen, including strong data analysis skills
• Demonstrate and promote a commitment to CPD, and willingness to role modelling company values and behaviours
• Excellent consultancy skills and ability to coach others as a team leader
• Significant knowledge and experience of, change management and project management
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent

CIPD Knowledge Areas

HR BPs are expected to possess/demonstrate ‘core knowledge’ areas, to at least Chartered Member level. Depending on the business area the Business Partner is assigned to and the nature of the role they are filling, they are expected to possess up to 3 of the following CIPD knowledge areas, in addition to the ‘core knowledge.’

CIPD Knowledge Area: Level

• Core Knowledge (People practice, culture and behaviour, business acumen, analytics and creating value, digital working, change) – Chartered Member level
• Employee Engagement – Chartered Member level
• Employee Relations – Chartered Member level
• Talent Management – Chartered Member level
• Organisation Development and Design – Chartered Member level
• Reward – Chartered Member level

Additional Vacancy Information

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally - for more information on what NATS can offer you please visit - Why NATS? - NATS

We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely.

If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe – we would like to hear from you whatever your age, sex, race, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, visible or invisible disability. Individuals that bring different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds help us be at the forefront of our industry.