Human Resources Business Partner

ENGINEERINGUK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job description

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Employer: Network Rail

Location: Manchester, GB

Salary: £43,588.00 per year; £50,018.00 per year

Closing date: 4 May 2025

Sector: Human Resources

Role: Partner

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time

About Network Rail
We're proud to be recognised as one of the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equity for the fourth year running. Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year. Our purpose is to connect people and goods with where they need to be and our vision is for a simpler, better, greener railway.

The North West route runs from Cheshire in the south to Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, and Cumbria in the North, with major stations including Crewe, Liverpool Lime Street, Preston, Manchester Victoria, and Manchester Piccadilly.

We're a very busy region, with 1.3 million passengers travelling on our rails every weekday and 700,000 tonnes of freight moved a week. We value the commitments you may have outside of work and will consider flexible and hybrid working applications.

Brief Description
What will you be doing?
The HR Business Partner delivers a holistic, influential, and proactive value add HR support service. The role works alongside the business leadership team to deliver the business aligned People Plan/HR strategy and provide front line support, coaching, and advice to members of our management teams.

This position manages client groups within North West route. You will provide geographical, face to face support to line managers in relation to complex employee relations cases, in line with formal Human Resources policies and procedures.

Every day will be different, but you can expect to be involved in the following activities:

1. Implementing and delivering the HR Strategy/People Plan to support business objectives and drive a high-performance culture.
2. Building strong relationships with members of the supported business senior leadership team and other relevant stakeholders.
3. Providing operational HR support with employee relations issues, employee sickness and absence cases, and planning.
4. Delivering client responsive, cost effective and integrated people solutions.
5. Collaborating with the broader HR function to provide the best solutions for the business.
6. Working with appropriate Union representatives to support business solutions.
7. Liaising with HR Business Partners in other areas to work collaboratively on cross business issues.

In order to be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be:

• Strong business/commercial approach and understanding of business needs.
• Proven experience of working in partnership and building strong working relationships with senior managers.
• Passionate about customer service with ability to articulate previous achievements.
• Employee relations experience, including supporting line managers on disciplinary and grievance cases.
• Knowledge and experience of implementing best practice HR solutions.
• Experience of coaching and influencing senior managers.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to negotiate effectively.
• Understanding of how to identify, develop and retain talent.
• Excellent technical HR Knowledge - CIPD qualified or relevant experience.
• Proven track record of operating in a complex working environment.
• Involvement in organisation change programmes.
• Graduate calibre.

Desired:

• MCIPD/post-graduate human resources qualification.
• Understanding of project management principles.
• Experience of managing complex projects.
• Experience of working within a unionised environment.

How to apply:

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Salary and benefits:

• Band 4C, starting at £43,588 and increasing to £50,018
• Pro-rata annual leave entitlement (28 days)
• Discounted online shopping site
• Discounted offers including childcare vouchers and healthcare offers
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets
• 75% discount on leisure travel
• A choice of contributory pension schemes
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community

Network Rail adheres to a structured pay framework; any salary offered will be within the pay range advertised. All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks.

Closing date: 4th May 2025. Late applications will not be accepted.

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Safe behaviour is a requirement of working for Network Rail. Applicants should be able to demonstrate their awareness of our safety vision.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and are committed to the wellbeing of our employees.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accredited Disability Confident Leader. This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.