Your new company
Hays is delighted to be partnering with a well-established, operationally focused organisation to recruit an experienced HR Business Partner.This is an excellent opportunity to join a fast-paced, multi-site business where you will work closely with senior operational leaders, helping to shape and deliver the people agenda. The organisation is looking for a commercially minded HR professional who can build strong relationships, influence decision-making and translate business priorities into effective people solutions.
Your new role
As HR Business Partner, you will act as a trusted strategic partner to leaders across your designated business area, combining proactive business partnering with hands-on support across a broad range of people priorities.Key responsibilities will include:

• Partnering with leaders to develop and deliver people plans aligned with operational and organisational objectives.
• Supporting workforce planning, organisational design, talent, succession, performance and employee engagement initiatives.
• Using people data and insight to identify trends, anticipate challenges and influence business decisions.
• Leading and supporting organisational change and transformation activities.
• Providing expert advice on complex and high-risk employee relations matters, including areas such as redundancy and settlement agreements.
• Coaching and developing HR colleagues, including acting as an escalation point for more complex people matters.
• Supporting leaders with talent pipelines, succession planning, internal mobility and development opportunities.
• Working collaboratively with specialist HR functions including recruitment, L&D, reward, people insights and advisory teams.
• Driving continuous improvement across HR processes, policies and ways of working.
• Taking ownership of recruitment for defined leadership positions within your business area.

What you'll need to succeed
To succeed in this role, you will be an established HR Business Partner or progressive HR generalist who is comfortable operating within a fast-paced, multi-site operational environment.You will ideally bring:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience within an HR Business Partner or progressive generalist HR position.
• A demonstrable track record of supporting and delivering transformational change.
• CIPD Level 5 as a minimum, and/or currently working towards Level 7.
• Strong employment law knowledge and experience handling complex employee relations matters.
• The ability to build credibility with leadership teams and confidently influence stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of how HR strategy supports wider business objectives.
• Experience of workforce planning, talent management, succession planning and organisational development.
• Strong analytical capability with the confidence to use people data to inform decisions.
• Experience of project management and delivering HR-led initiatives.
• Experience within construction and/or engineering would be beneficial.
• Experience within a unionised environment would also be advantageous.

What you'll get in return
This is an opportunity to take on a genuinely broad HR Business Partner position with significant exposure to operational leaders and the opportunity to influence the people agenda across your area.
You'll have the chance to work across strategic people planning, transformation, talent, organisational development and complex employee relations, giving you the scope to make a tangible impact within the business. You'll also work as part of a wider HR function with specialist colleagues across recruitment, learning and development, reward, people insights and advisory services.
The role is expected to be branch-based for a minimum of four days per week, with some travel required, although the JD indicates this is expected to be minimal.What you need to do now

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