Human Resources Business Partner

HPRtalent; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

HPRtalent partners with a successful organisation to appoint a Human Resources Business Partner covering both manufacturing operations and corporate functions. You will work closely with senior leaders, delivering a commercially focused people strategy and enabling performance improvements across populations.

You will move confidently between operational manufacturing and corporate environments, coaching leaders and shaping organisational design, talent and transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Credible, commercially-minded HR Business Partner with experience across manufacturing and corporate functions.
• Experience partnering senior stakeholders and advising on HR issues.
• Experience with organisational design, change and transformation programmes.
• Strong employee relations knowledge and understanding of UK employment law.
• Analytical mindset with ability to translate data into action.

Responsibilities

• Partner leaders across manufacturing and corporate functions to develop and deliver people priorities.
• Provide credible, commercially focused HR advice to senior stakeholders.
• Coach leaders to strengthen management capability and drive performance.
• Support organisational design, workforce planning and resource decisions.
• Lead and support business change, restructuring and transformation programmes.
• Drive performance management and promote accountability and continuous improvement.
• Identify talent requirements and support succession and development planning.
• Use people data to identify trends, risks and opportunities and translate into actions.

Skills

HR Business Partnering

Stakeholder management

Organisational change

People analytics

Employee relations

Education

CIPD Level 7 qualification

Degree-educated

Job description

Human Resources Business Partner – Manufacturing & Corporate functions

Location: Home Counties

We are partnering with a successful and evolving organisation to appoint an outstanding Human Resources Business Partner into a broad and influential role supporting both manufacturing operations and corporate functions.

This is an opportunity for an accomplished HR professional who enjoys the variety of partnering very different areas of a business from fast-paced, operational manufacturing environments through to professional and corporate teams.

Working closely with senior leaders and managers, you will provide commercially focused HR leadership across your client groups, ensuring the people agenda is closely aligned to business priorities and delivering tangible improvements in performance, capability, engagement and organisational effectiveness.

The Role

As Human Resources Business Partner, you will build strong relationships across both operational and corporate populations, becoming a trusted adviser to leaders while maintaining a clear understanding of the commercial and organisational priorities of the business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Partnering leaders across manufacturing and corporate functions to develop and deliver their people priorities
• Building strong relationships with senior stakeholders and providing credible, commercially focused HR advice
• Coaching and challenging leaders to strengthen management capability and improve people leadership
• Supporting organisational design, workforce planning and resource decisions
• Leading and supporting business change, restructuring and transformation programmes
• Driving effective performance management and helping create a culture of accountability and continuous improvement
• Identifying talent and capability requirements and supporting succession and development planning
• Using people data and insight to identify trends, risks and opportunities and translate these into meaningful actions
• Supporting employee engagement, retention and cultural initiatives
• Providing guidance on complex employee relations matters, balancing commercial pragmatism with appropriate governance
• Working collaboratively with HR specialist teams across Talent, Reward, Learning & Development and Employee Relations
• Supporting the continued development of HR processes, frameworks and ways of working across the organisation

About You

We are looking for a credible and commercially minded HR Business Partner who can move confidently between manufacturing operations and a corporate environment.

You will understand that effective HR partnering looks different across these populations. You may be coaching an operational leader around capability and performance one day and supporting a functional leader with organisational design, talent or transformation the next.

You will bring:

• Strong HR Business Partnering experience within a sizeable and complex organisation
• Previous experience within manufacturing, FMCG, food, engineering, industrial or another operationally intensive environment
• Experience of partnering corporate or professional functions alongside operational teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to influence and constructively challenge
• Experience of organisational change, restructuring and transformation
• Strong employee relations knowledge and a sound understanding of UK employment legislation
• Experience across performance, talent, succession, workforce planning and organisational development
• Strong analytical capability and confidence using people data to inform decisions
• Commercial awareness and an ability to understand the wider business implications of people decisions

The Person

You will be equally comfortable on the manufacturing floor and around the leadership table.

Visible, approachable and pragmatic, you will build credibility quickly with operational teams while bringing the professional judgement and strategic thinking required to partner corporate functions effectively.

We are looking for someone who goes beyond providing HR advice. You will understand the business, anticipate people challenges, bring solutions and be prepared to challenge thinking when there is a better way forward.

You will combine strong HR technical knowledge with excellent interpersonal skills and a genuine interest in how people, leadership and organisational capability can improve business performance.

For an ambitious HR professional, this represents an excellent opportunity to broaden their partnering experience across both manufacturing and corporate environments, gaining exposure to a varied and commercially important people agenda.

If you are a degree-educated, CIPD Level 7 qualified HR professional with strong operational HR experience and the ability to partner effectively across both manufacturing and corporate functions, we would be delighted to hear from you.

All applications and initial conversations will be treated in the strictest confidence