Human Resources Business Partner

Huws Gray Group.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the building materials sector seeks an experienced HR Business Partner to support their Northern Merchanting & Plant & Tool Hire divisions. The role involves partnering with senior leaders, driving HR strategies, and managing change initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in HRBP, excellent coaching skills, and the ability to thrive in an agile environment. The company offers competitive benefits, including a company car or allowance, performance bonuses, and extensive training opportunities.

Benefits

23 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company car or car allowance

Company performance bonus scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Company funded life assurance

Generous colleague discount scheme

Training and development programmes

Qualifications

• Experience in a geographically dispersed, customer-facing organization.
• Ability to prioritize and deliver critical activities on time.
• Strong ER capability and understanding of employment law.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with stakeholders to ensure a positive culture.
• Drive the HR agenda and manage change projects.
• Support talent and succession planning reviews.

Skills

Coaching

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Performance Management

Commercial Awareness

Employment Law

Education

CIPD Level 7

Job description

HR Business Partner

Please note, this role covers the North of England and Wales

If you’re in the trade or have ever tackled a home improvement project, you’ve probably heard of us.We’re the Huws Gray Group and we’re made up of a number of brands, including Huws Gray, PDM, Hirebase, Civils & Lintels, The Timber Group, NDI and Anglia Tool Centre to name a few. Up and down the UK, our branches are serving and supporting our local communities with all their building material needs, but we couldn’t do this without the right people, so why not join us?

Partnering with key members of our senior and HR leadership teams on the people agenda and delivering HR strategies thisrole will help drive the growth and profitability within our Northern Merchanting & Plant & Tool Hire divisions.

What will I be doing?

• Building highly effective relationships with your stakeholders, ensuring a positive culture exists
• Providing senior level solution focussed coaching, playing the role of trusted advisor to challenge business thinking and aid the required decision making
• Playing a key role in shaping the HR agenda, driving and cascading agreed initiatives
• Championing colleague engagement through effective partnering of senior leaders
• Undertaking talent and succession planning reviews, ensuring we are developing our capability across the business
• Managing change, ensuring all businesses reorganisations and change projects including TUPE’s are managed in line with legislation, policy and cultural values
• Striving to raise the capability for managers to develop confidence to become more confident and self-sufficient in all areas of people management
• Ensuring a robust approach to managing performance, increasing overall skills and capabilities in the business, increasing the level of empowerment and ability to manage change
• Working with the wider HR function to ensure we are delivering a first class, market leading service that ensures sustainable success
• Driving the implementation of the people plans to focus on attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the best talent through using data, insight and support of COE and Shared Services

We know that you are more than just a CV and embracing everyone’s individuality is what makes us great as a team. We are looking for the successful person to have the following:

• Highly developed HRBP experience partnering and coaching senior leaders with a demonstrable track record of achieving success in a geographically dispersed, customer facing organisation
• Demonstratable ability to ruthlessly prioritise and achieve quality and on time delivery of critical activities
• Personal integrity, dependability and confidentiality
• An ability to work in an agile environment that also has a high level of ambiguity
• Ability to question and challenge the status quo, shows curiosity to listen and learn and identify causal influences
• Knowledge and application of different leadership styles to support coaching, feedback, engagement and influencing
• Commercially minded and able to quickly grasp the business success metrics of the areas that they support
• Strong ER capability and understanding of employment law
• A change catalyst
• Implemented a range of changes around Operating Model and OD including restructures, redundancies, TUPE etc.
• Can operate at pace and across multiple agendas at same time
• Desirable - CIPD, or equivalent educational achievement (Level 7), plus experience

What will I get in return?

• Competitive salary
• 23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays pro rata to your contract
• Company car or car allowance
• Company performance bonus scheme
• Contributary pension scheme
• Company funded life assurance
• A generous colleague discount scheme
• A range of training and development programmes to help you progress your career