HR Business Partner

iD; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate HR Business Partner to support the opening of a new site in Leeds. This role is pivotal in driving HR excellence and aligning HR strategies with business goals. You will partner with management to enhance employee engagement and ensure compliance with HR policies. As part of a dynamic team, you will contribute to shaping a high-performing workforce and fostering a healthy workplace culture. This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a growing logistics sector, where innovation and operational excellence are key values.

Qualifications

• CIPD Level 5 qualified preferred.
• Experience as an HRBP in logistics or operational business.
• Strong HR alignment with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with managers for talent attraction and retention.
• Deliver HR metrics to inform business strategy.
• Drive employee engagement initiatives for retention.

Skills

Employee Relations

Strategic HR Management

Stakeholder Management

Workforce Planning

HR Policies and Procedures

Education

CIPD Level 5

Tools

HRIS

Payroll Systems

ATS Systems

Job description

HR Business Partner

About you:

Are you passionate about people and have experience of driving the People strategy for an organisation. As our HR Business Partner (HRBP), you will play a key role in delivering our HR Strategy, supporting managers and employees across the business.

We are opening a brand-new site in Leeds and need a HR Business Partner that can support us with the opening and embedding of this new operation and its new team.

You will be responsible for driving HR excellence, employee engagement, and ensuring HR policies and practices align with company goals. Working closely with stakeholders, you will provide expert HR guidance, manage employee relations, and support business growth through strategic talent management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with managers and leaders to support succession planning and ensure talent attraction & retention.
• Provide expert advice on HR policies, procedures, and employment law.
• Deliver HR metrics and reporting to inform business strategy and decision-making.
• Contribute to shaping a high-performing and engaged workforce.

• Ensure thorough and compliant management of employee relations (ER) issues.
• Support performance management, guiding managers through people processes and complex ER cases.
• Collaborate with leadership teams to ensure legal compliance and best HR practices.
• Champion a healthy and inclusive workplace culture.
• Support the development and implementation of people development plans, including probation reviews, PDPs, and annual performance reviews.
• Identify and mitigate recruitment risks, working closely with the Talent Acquisition team.
• Drive employee engagement initiatives to enhance retention and satisfaction.
  
• Develop and contribute to the site-wide wellbeing and reward strategy, ensuring employees feel valued and motivated.

Your skills, experience & qualifications:

• Ideally you will be CIPD Level 5 qualified
• Previous experience as an HRBP within a large logistics or operational business is desirable
• Strong ability to align HR initiatives with business objectives.
• Expertise in employee relations, workforce planning, and strategic HR management.
• Proven ability to partner with managers and leadership teams to drive organizational success.
• Familiarity with HRIS, Payroll, ATS systems, and data-driven HR strategies.
• Knowledge of employment legislation, including TUPE regulations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, analytical mindset, and ability to drive HR impact.

About Us:

ID Logistics is an international contract logistics group with a presence in 18 countries,representing more than 8.0 million square meters of warehousing facilities in Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, with 38,000 employees. With a client portfolio balanced between retail, industry, detail picking, healthcare and e-commerce sectors, ID Logistics is characterised by offers involving a high level of technology.

We have been growing for more than 20 years, with an ethos of everyone being united and where innovation is constant. We have a demanding job to do, and we must move fast while being rigorous and precise.

We launched our UK branch in June 2023, and thus this is an exciting time to join the UK team, to support creating its solid foundations for a promising future.

Logistics is a vital, dynamic, and promising sector that is modernising itself through the increasing digitalisation and robotics of its processes.

Operational excellence is one of the founding values of ID Logistics and each employee contributes to it: all your ideas, we will listen to them, and all your past experiences will enrich us.

So come develop your IDeas on the job in our new site in Leeds.

This is an onsite position based in Leeds.

Please note we may review and progress applications ahead of the closing date.

We are not looking for agency support currently.