HR Business Partner

iD; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading logistics company is seeking an HR Business Partner (HRBP) to drive HR strategy, engage employees, and align HR practices with business goals. This role will involve working closely with managers and stakeholders to enhance workforce performance and maintain a healthy workplace culture, all while situated in Northampton for an exciting start-up phase in the UK.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as an HRBP within a large logistics or operational business desired.
• Strong ability to align HR initiatives with business objectives.
• Expertise in employee relations and strategic HR management.

Responsibilities

• Support succession planning and talent attraction & retention.
• Provide expert advice on HR policies and employment law.
• Drive employee engagement initiatives for enhanced retention.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Stakeholder management

Employee relations

Workforce planning

Strategic HR management

Education

CIPD Level 5 qualification

Tools

HRIS

Payroll systems

ATS systems

Job description

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.

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, although this is not essential
• 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 Northampton.

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

We are not looking for agency support currently.