HR Business Partner

About This Role

This HR Business Partner role focuses on employee relations, organisational change, integration projects, and people strategy across the UK and Ireland. It suits an HR professional who enjoys operating in a changing environment and wants to help build and shape an evolving HR function within a fast-paced, multi-site business.

Responsibilities

• Partner operational leaders across the UK and Ireland, providing pragmatic, commercially focused people support
• Own employee relations activity across your business areas, managing a broad range of cases from end to end
• Support managers with disciplinary, grievance, performance, capability, conduct, absence, and other employee relations matters
• Lead and support organisational change initiatives, restructures, consultations, acquisitions, and TUPE activity
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders and provide coaching, challenge, and expert HR guidance
• Support workforce planning, talent development, and manager capability programmes
• Drive HR projects including policy reviews, people system implementation, performance frameworks, engagement initiatives, and process improvements
• Use people data and insight to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities
• Contribute to the ongoing integration and alignment of UK and Ireland operations

Requirements

• Significant experience managing employee relations casework independently
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Experience in a generalist HR Business Partner, Senior HR Advisor, or HR Manager capacity
• Exposure to organisational change, restructures, TUPE, acquisitions, or transformation projects
• A commercially minded and operationally focused approach
• Excellent coaching and stakeholder management skills
• The confidence to influence and challenge managers constructively
• A desire to broaden beyond traditional ER work and get involved in business projects and strategic initiatives
• A willingness to travel regularly across locations in the UK and Ireland

Nice to have:

• CIPD qualification (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Opportunity to join a business undergoing significant growth and transformation
• Exposure to high-profile projects including integration, HR systems implementation, organisational change, and leadership development
• Supportive and collaborative HR team with genuine scope to make an impact

Important Details

• Multi-site role with travel across the UK and Ireland