HR Business Partner - #2148319

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR Business Partner to join a rapidly growing, private equity-backed professional services organisation operating across the UK.

The business has grown significantly through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions, bringing together a number of specialist businesses and teams under one Group structure.

As the organisation enters its next phase of growth, there is a clear opportunity for HR to help shape the people infrastructure, leadership capability and culture needed to support continued expansion.

This is a broad and commercially focused HRBP role within a business experiencing significant growth, integration and organisational change.

You will work closely with senior leaders and business heads, providing pragmatic and credible HR advice while helping to shape how the organisation develops its people, culture and ways of working.

Initially, you will provide HR Business Partnering support across the Northwest, working closely with local leadership and employees to understand the needs of different businesses and teams. As the HR operating model develops, the role is expected to evolve towards a broader, nationally focused and discipline-aligned HRBP structure.

The role combines strategic business partnering with hands-on delivery across employee relations, organisational development, management capability, HR systems, processes and culture.

This is not a role focused simply on maintaining existing HR processes. It requires someone who can assess what is needed, bring structure to complexity, challenge constructively and help build an HR function fit for a growing and acquisitive organisation.

• Partner with senior leaders, business heads and managers, providing commercially focused and pragmatic HR advice.

• Take ownership of complex employee relations matters, including disciplinary, grievance, performance and absence cases.

• Build management confidence and capability in handling people issues and difficult conversations.

• Support organisational design, change and the integration of acquired businesses.

• Help create consistent HR practices, policies and processes across the Group while retaining the entrepreneurial culture of individual businesses.

• Support the development of the Learning & Development and management development agenda.

• Identify opportunities to improve HR systems, processes, onboarding, offboarding and management information.

• Contribute to building a consistent, inclusive and high-performing culture across multiple businesses and locations.

• Provide HR insight into workforce planning, team structures, capability requirements and organisational effectiveness.

• Work with senior stakeholders to ensure the people agenda supports commercial priorities and continued growth.

You will be an experienced HR professional with strong HR Business Partnering and employee relations experience. You will be comfortable working at both strategic and operational levels and enjoy operating in an environment where things are evolving.

We are looking for someone who is:

• Commercially minded, pragmatic and solutions focused.

• Confident managing complex employee relations matters and challenging conversations.

• Experienced in organisational change, integration or organisational development.

• A credible business partner who can influence and challenge stakeholders constructively.

• Comfortable working across multiple businesses, locations and stakeholder groups.

• Experienced in improving HR processes, systems and management capability.

• Resilient, organised and able to prioritise in a fast-moving environment.

• CIPD qualified with sound employment law knowledge.

Experience within a private equity-backed, acquisitive or high-growth organisation would be advantageous.

Above all, we are looking for someone who enjoys building, improving and making a tangible difference and who can help establish the people foundations required to support continued growth.

This is an opportunity to join a business at an exciting stage of its development and play a meaningful role in shaping its people agenda.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with senior leadership, influence the future HR model, support the integration of multiple businesses and develop management capability and culture across the organisation.

Location: Manchester

The role is office based, with travel to other UK locations as required.

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