HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner | Manchester Hybrid with Travel | £55,000 - £60,000

Your new company
My client is a prominent, successful and growing Engineering Services Organisation based in Manchester. They are expanding and consequently changing the People function to include a BP model so seeking to appoint an experienced HR Business Partner to join their team and support the implementation of new model to facilitate and support business growth.

Your new role
In this newly created role, as a HR Business Partner, you will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team understanding exactly what direction the business is heading in, as well as supporting their fantastic HR Team and challenges faced. You will be a hands-on team player, happy to get involved in the operational work and have extensive experience in building strategic relationships. You will spend lots of time on-site across the group, so you must be happy to travel to other sites across the UK.

No two days are the same, but some of your responsibilities will include:

• Building a centralised HR Team to support a fast-changing business, ensuring that the HR team remain engaged, delivering, progressing and enjoying their roles
• Provide support and guidance to leaders on generalist HR topics including investigations, absence management, performance management, disciplinaries, grievances, terms and conditions, ensuring best practise and consistency of advice
• Build and establish required reporting and data insights that aligns with future business organisation design
• Acting as the link between our Executive, Operations, Technical and Leadership Teams - ensuring you are aware of what is happening within their areas, keeping them abreast of issues and developments and supporting them
• Supporting our new acquisitions with their HR needs; building collaborative and supportive relationships, guiding on best practice, training and providing them with everything they need to succeed in their new home
• Deliver a professional transactional and advisory service to employees/leaders ensuring all HR systems, processes, case handling information is accurate, timely and meets legislative requirements.
• Ensuring that our leaders and HR Team adhere to all best practice guidelines, company standards, and follow the relevant legal requirements.
• Being a valued member of our fantastic HR Team, where we all work together to support business operations, so you may be required to pitch in and complete some generalist HR activities or projects.

What you'll need to succeed

• Proven experience in a HR Business Partner role
• Strong Stakeholder Management & Influencing Skills
• Analytical Data Driven Approach
• Ability to interpret and manipulate data for insight reporting
• Excellent organisational and ability to balance your workload
• Commercial Awareness
• Experience supporting a change to HR model advantageous
• Confident Presenting Capability
• CIPD qualification

What you'll get in return
Salary £55,000 - £60,000
25 Days holiday + bank holidays + birthday off
Hybrid working
Enhanced Pension
Life Assurance
Discount Benefits
Development Opportunities
Flexible working options available.


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