Human Resources Business Partner

Huws Gray; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Human Resources Business Partner to join their team. This role is pivotal in shaping HR strategies across the North of England and Wales, focusing on building strong relationships with senior leaders and driving engagement initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in HRBP roles, demonstrating the ability to manage change effectively and enhance organizational performance. With a commitment to developing talent and fostering a positive culture, this position offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a thriving organization. Join a company that values individuality and teamwork, and help drive their success forward.

Benefits

23 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company performance bonus scheme

Contributory pension scheme

Company-funded life assurance

Training and development programmes

Qualifications

• Extensive HRBP experience in a customer-facing organization.
• Strong understanding of employment law and change management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to drive HR strategies and initiatives.
• Manage change projects and ensure compliance with policies.
• Champion colleague engagement and talent development.

Skills

HR Business Partnering

Coaching Senior Leaders

Change Management

Employment Law

Stakeholder Management

Talent Management

Performance Management

Agility in Ambiguous Environments

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Join to apply for the Human Resources Business Partner role at Huws Gray.

Please note, this role covers the North of England and Wales so you must be comfortable commuting and be based in the North.

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, this role 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-focused 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 business 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.
• Demonstrable 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 the same time.

What will I get in return?

• 23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays pro rata to your contract.
• Company performance bonus scheme.
• Contributory pension scheme.
• Company-funded life assurance.
• A range of training and development programmes to help you progress your career.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Human Resources and Customer Service

Industries

Retail, Construction, and Wholesale Building Materials