People Business Partner - Resource & Energy

Biffa Waste Services; Cannock; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading waste management company in Cannock seeks a People Business Partner to act as a strategic advisor to senior leaders. This role involves delivering people strategies that align with business goals, focusing on talent development, recruitment, and organizational design in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates should have strong commercial acumen and experience in managing business change, including redundancy and TUPE projects.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial acumen to translate business objectives into effective people strategies.
• Experience managing business change, including redundancy and TUPE projects.
• Ability to proactively identify business risks and opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to design and implement the People Strategy.
• Support large-scale TUPE transfers and manage local consultation exercises.
• Drive talent agenda for retention and succession planning.
• Use people data to influence decision-making.
• Lead complex change initiatives aligned with business goals.
• Enhance the overall employee experience.

Skills

Strong commercial acumen

Analytical mindset

Experience with redundancy and TUPE

Performance management

Talent management

Succession planning

Job description

A quick look at the role

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.

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Your core responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to design and implement our People Strategy to enhance business performance.
• Support in the delivery of large-scale TUPE transfers and deliver management of local consultation exercises (eg, redundancies, pay negotiations, organisational change etc).
• 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.
• Develop and implement initiatives that enhance the overall employee experience, ensuring a high-performing, engaged, and motivated workforce
• Develop and coach line managers to ensure effective people management, mitigating risks associated with ER activities.

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Our essential requirements

• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand financial performance and translate business objectives into effective People strategies
• Experience managing business change including redundancy and TUPE projects
• Proactively identifies business risk and opportunity
• Strong analytical mindset, with experience using People data and metrics to drive decision-making
• Demonstrable experience of performance management, talent management and succession planning

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Biffa – we’re changing the way people think about waste

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,000+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull.

We believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment which is why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn.