People Business Partner

Biffa; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading waste management company based in Manchester is seeking a People Business Partner to support strategic HR initiatives and enhance business performance. The role focuses on talent development, driving employee engagement, and managing business change. Candidates should have significant commercial HR experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence at senior levels. This is an excellent opportunity for those looking to make a real impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience in a decision-making role.
• Experience in employee engagement and culture.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using people data.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to implement the People Strategy.
• Drive the talent agenda for retention and promotion.
• Lead complex change initiatives across the business.

Skills

Emotional intelligence

Influencing skills

Negotiation skills

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

Commercial acumen

Coaching abilities

Job description

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This is an exciting and fantastic opportunity for a driven and commercially minded HR professional to make a real impact. As a key player in shaping the future of our organisation, you'll be at the forefront of driving meaningful change and enabling business success through people.

The People Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, delivering the people agenda that supports business growth and operational efficiency. The role requires a commercially focused HR professional to support the delivery of the People Strategy in a fast-paced, operational environment. This role is critical to aligning people priorities with business objectives, with a strong emphasis on talent development, recruitment, and organisational design.

The Role

The People Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, delivering the people agenda that support business growth and operational efficiency. The role requires a commercially focused HR professional to support the delivery of the People Strategy in a fast-paced, operational environment. This role is critical to aligning people priorities with business objectives, with a strong emphasis on talent development, recruitment and organisational design.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to design and implement our People Strategy to enhance business performance.
• Drive the talent agenda to deliver tangible outputs by way of retention, promotion and ensure succession is well thought out and planned ahead.
• Use people data and insight to influence decision-making and drive measurable outcomes and benefits to the business.
• Lead complex change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and alignment with business goals
• Where applicable, leads the relationship between the business area and Trade Unions, planning and managing regular interactions with Trade Unions.
• Develop and implement initiatives that enhance the overall employee experience, ensuring a high-performing, engaged, and motivated workforce

Candidate Profile

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant commercial experience in a decision-making role
• Employee engagement, culture and well-being
• Performance and succession management
• Delivered pieces of work across the People agenda
• Managing business change including redundancy and TUPE projects
• Collective grievance and working with Trade Union Officers
• Proactively promoted an inclusive environment
• Centres on Employee Experience, engagement and company culture

Skills and Approach

• Proactively identifies business risk and opportunity
• Strong level of emotional intelligence with the ability to manage situations sensitively and professionally
• Exceptional influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills at senior leadership levels (including Executives)
• Strong analytical mindset, with experience using People data and metrics to drive decision-making
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand financial performance and translate business objectives into effective People strategies
• Coaching and development abilities at senior level

General

• Able to travel without restriction and work some unsociable hours, with occasional nights away from home