HR Business Partner

Ringway; Watford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Ringway, a leading supply chain partner, is seeking a Senior Recruitment Business Partner in Watford. This role focuses on delivering strategic HR services that enhance employee relations and inclusion initiatives while supporting the business's overall strategy and community development. Ideal candidates will have extensive HR experience, particularly in complex environments such as construction.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in employee relations and managing complex HR issues.
• Experience in a HR business partnering role in a multi-site environment.
• Strategic experience in construction or transportation industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver comprehensive HR service aligned with company values.
• Build relationships to support business strategy and initiatives.
• Analyze employee engagement data to promote wellbeing and inclusion.

Skills

Employee Relations

HR Business Partnering

Change Management

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Job description

Direct message the job poster from Ringway

Senior Recruitment Business Partner for Ringway & Eurovia | Omni RMS

Ringway are a leading supply chain partner to local authorities, delivering highway maintenance and improvement works, maintaining over 43,300km of the local highway network and nearly 600,000 street lights. Our contracts include highway, bridge, street lighting, transport technology and environmental asset and network management services together with routine and cyclical highway maintenance.

About the Role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Business Partner to join our team based in Watford. This role will see you partnering with our colleagues to develop sustainable highways and transportation solutions that strengthen local communities.

Duties

• Deliver a comprehensive, professional HR service aligned with company values across the client business.
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with management to support business strategy and change initiatives.
• Provide expert guidance on complex employee relations issues, including performance, absence, grievances, disciplinaries, and workplace mediation.
• Support and advise on union matters, including negotiations and maintaining positive relationships.
• Lead and drive Fairness, Inclusion & Respect (FIR) initiatives, setting KPIs and championing diversity and inclusion efforts.
• Identify and implement value-adding HR initiatives aligned to business goals.
• Contribute to senior management discussions, influencing people strategy and financial performance.
• Manage change processes such as restructures, redundancies, and settlement agreements, while coaching and supporting managers.
• Partner with the VINCI Academy to drive talent management, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Analyse employee engagement data to drive improvements in wellbeing, inclusion, and participation, and support performance culture.
• Support bid and tender submissions by highlighting HR’s strategic contribution to business development.
• Promote a high-performance culture by enabling managers to address underperformance effectively.

Person Specification

• Extensive Employee Relations experience in dealing with complex ER issues and experience with employment tribunals and unions.
• Experience of operating in a HR business partnering role in a multi-site, safety focused environment.
• Experience of managing complex TUPE and redundancies
• Ability to travel.
• Full UK driving licence
• Experience in working with a client business that operates in a safety critical environment
• Experience of working at a strategic level in HR, preferably within the construction, or transportation industries
• Experience of leading EDI initiatives to drive real change within the business

We are Investors in People accredited We work hard to create an environment for job satisfaction, where our workforce feel that they are instrumental in contributing to the overall success of the business and on a personal level, can access development towards their professional goals and aspirations.

We have a dedicated recruitment team and politely request that agencies refrain from contacting anyone across our businesses with regards to speculative CV’s or offering to assist with our vacancies, thank you.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Construction and Civil Engineering

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