HR Business Partner

Overview

As an HR Business Partner in a fast-paced, on-site role, you partner with senior leaders to shape people strategies across 500+ colleagues. You will blend strategic HR support with hands-on ER, performance, and workforce planning to drive business performance across Northampton sites and occasional travel to Huntingdon and Basingstoke. You help foster an inclusive culture, coach managers, and manage complex people matters in a unionised environment. This role offers meaningful impact by aligning HR with business priorities and culture.

Pay / Benefits

• Private Medical Insurance
• 26 days annual leave
• Discretionary bonus
• Company car allowance
• Pension scheme with 8% employer contribution
• Free 24/7 GP consultations

Responsibilities

• Provide ER support and manage performance, disciplinary, grievance, and attendance processes
• Support relationships and key processes with unions at sites and lead union-related activities
• Implement Business HR Priorities such as labour flexibility, OMS, LPMC, payroll optimisation, and standardisation of terms and conditions
• Deliver HR support for startups, business wins/losses/transfers
• Assist managers with workforce planning, organisation design, forecasting resourcing needs, and talent requirements
• Advise managers to ensure compliant adherence to HR policies

Key requirements

• Strong HRBP experience in a customer-centric, operational environment
• Union relationship management and pay negotiations experience (desirable)
• Solid ER expertise across performance management, disciplinaries, grievances and attendance
• High energy with passion for culture, engagement and visible HR presence
• Credible influencer capable of challenging and supporting senior leaders
• Experience coaching/managing capability development in managers
• Resilient and adaptable, able to work at pace
• CIPD studying, qualified or equivalent level of professional HR knowledge
• Clear, confident communication with ability to build trust at all levels

• high energy
• strong communication
• influencing at all levels
• ER
• employee relations
• performance management

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