Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Job Description

Senior People Business Partner

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Birmingham | Hybrid with UK Travel | Permanent

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£80,000 + Benefits

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We’re partnering with a large, customer-focused organisation to appoint a Senior People Business Partner to an influential, newly elevated role supporting two important and evolving areas of the business.

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This is a broad partnering opportunity that combines the pace and complexity of a geographically dispersed frontline operation with the chance to work directly with Directors and senior leadership teams on growth, transformation, organisational effectiveness, and the future people agenda.

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The ideal candidate will bring the right balance of operational understanding and strategic HR capability.

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You’ll need to understand what it takes to support large, dispersed and fast-moving operational teams, while also having the commercial credibility and strategic capability to step up and influence at Director level.

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The role

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Your remit will include:

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• Acting as a trusted strategic partner to Directors and senior leadership teams, providing insight, challenge and commercially focused people solutions

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• Translating business strategy into a clear people agenda that supports growth, productivity, performance and customer experience

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• Supporting the evolution of a geographically dispersed operational workforce as new services and ways of working are introduced

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• Leading thinking around organisational design, capability, workforce planning and organisational effectiveness

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• Developing robust talent, succession and leadership plans to ensure the business has the capability required for future growth

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• Supporting significant transformation, cultural change and integration activity

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• Using people data alongside operational and commercial insight to identify challenges, shape priorities and influence decision-making

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• Coaching and constructively challenging senior leaders, building accountability and strengthening leadership capability

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• Identifying opportunities to improve structures, ways of working, team effectiveness and colleague experience

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• Working closely with specialist People teams across employee relations, talent acquisition, learning, reward, inclusion and wellbeing

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You’ll operate within a centre of excellence model, drawing on specialist People teams while retaining ownership of the senior business partnering relationship.

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What we’re looking for

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We’re looking for an established Senior HR Business Partner who has operated within a sizeable, complex and ideally geographically dispersed organisation.

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You’ll bring strong operational credibility; someone who is also comfortable operating strategically without becoming disconnected from what is happening on the frontline.

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You’ll ideally bring:

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• Significant senior People Business Partnering experience within a large and complex organisation

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• A strong track record of partnering directly with Directors and senior leadership teams

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• Experience within a fast-paced operational environment such as logistics, retail, field services, engineering, distribution or another multi-site customer-facing business

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• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to connect people decisions with business performance and financial outcomes

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• Experience of organisational development, organisational design and workforce transformation

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• Strong capability across workforce planning, talent, succession and leadership development

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• Experience supporting businesses through significant growth, change or cultural transformation

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• Confidence using data and business insight to challenge thinking and influence senior-level decisions

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• The resilience and credibility to work with a range of leadership styles and constructively challenge at senior level

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• A pragmatic, grounded approach and a genuine understanding of the pressures facing frontline operational leaders and teams

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The opportunity

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This is an opportunity to join at an exciting point in the organisation’s evolution.

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The role itself has been reshaped and elevated because the business needs more than traditional operational HR support. They’re looking for someone who can become a genuine strategic partner to the leadership team while retaining the operational credibility to understand what is happening across the business.

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You’ll be predominantly aligned to the Birmingham site, with flexibility to work in a hybrid way and travel to operational locations across the UK when required.

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If you’re a commercially minded senior People professional who enjoys being close to the business, can hold your own around a senior leadership table and thrives in organisations going through growth and change, we’d love to hear from you.

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