People Partner (Manager Support)

Ibstock Plc; Ibstock; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary on par with UK market

Hybrid working

Life assurance

Pension scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Share Save scheme eligibility

Retail discounts platform

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Ibstock Plc invites applications for a strategic HR professional to partner with senior leaders across the business, translating workforce plans into practical actions and delivering talent and engagement initiatives. You’ll coach managers, strengthen leadership, and ensure policies align with business needs.

The role emphasizes collaboration with People Centres of Expertise, use of people data to inform decisions, and a willingness to travel nationally to support initiatives.

Qualifications

• Broad generalist HR knowledge across talent development, organisation design, employee relations, change and performance management.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leaders to provide commercially focused people advice and build leadership capability.
• Translate workforce plans into practical actions for leaders and managers.
• Support talent, performance, succession and engagement initiatives.
• Identify learning and capability needs and develop solutions with People Centres of Expertise.
• Use people data to identify trends, risks and opportunities and drive action.

Skills

Generalist HR

Leadership coaching

Workforce planning

Employee engagement

Change management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Negotiation

Education

CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent

Tools

HR systems

People analytics

Job description

Build your future with Ibstock. With more than 200 years of history and over 1,800 colleagues, we are a business loaded with opportunity. Our values of care, teamwork and courage guide how we work, support one another and deliver for our customers.

What you’ll do

Partnering with leaders

• Build trusted relationships with operational and functional leaders, providing practical, commercially focused people advice.
• Coach, advise and constructively challenge managers to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team capability.

Delivering people and workforce plans

• Translate people and workforce plans into clear, practical actions for leaders and managers.
• Implement talent, performance, succession and employee engagement initiatives.

Building organisational capability

• Identify learning and capability needs and work with People Centres of Expertise to develop appropriate solutions.
• Support managers with performance management, team development, career pathways, resource planning and recruitment.

Using insight to drive action

• Use people management information to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Bring emerging themes to the attention of leaders and ensure appropriate action is taken.

Embedding effective people practices

• Deliver and implement people policies, processes and services consistently.
• Work collaboratively with Employee Services and People Centres of Expertise to ensure solutions are practical, relevant and aligned with business needs.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and continuously improve people processes.
• Contribute to consultation, collective bargaining, collective disputes and TUPE activity where required.

What you’ll bring

• Broad generalist HR knowledge, including experience across talent development, organisation design, employee relations, change, performance management, workforce planning and succession.
• Exposure to compensation and benefits and employee engagement.
• Strong communication, influencing and relationship-management skills.
• Commercial awareness and sound business acumen.
• The ability to establish credibility and positively challenge stakeholders.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• A good understanding of people policies, processes and specialist HR services.
• The ability to interpret business and people information, identify trends and turn insights into action.
• Planning, project-management and change-management capability.
• Confidence, independence and a strong belief in the value an effective People function can bring to the business.
• Full driving licence and willingness to travel nationally when required.

It would be great if you also have

• Experience within a manufacturing, engineering or industrial environment.
• Experience working in a unionised setting.
• Exposure to business planning and commercially focused performance measures.
• Experience leading organisational change and consultation activity.
• CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience using HR systems and people analytics to identify improvement opportunities.

Why Ibstock?

This is an opportunity to make a visible difference across a varied UK business. You’ll work directly with leaders, helping them navigate people challenges, build stronger teams and translate business priorities into meaningful action.

What you’ll get

• Competitive salary, rewarding your skills and experience.
• Hybrid working, where appropriate to the role.
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme with employer contributions matched up to 10%.
• Full access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family, including Digicare+ provided by Aviva.
• Share Save scheme eligibility.
• Access to a high-street retail discounts platform.
• Personal development and career progression opportunities.

We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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