Jobs in Charvil

HR Business Partner

Location: Home based with regular travel to our South based locations

Travel: Regular travel across the South of England required

Employment Type: Full?Time, Permanent

Working Hours: Monday – Friday

What’s in it for you… 

We believe in looking after our people, and it shows. When you join Ipsum, you’re not just taking a job — you’re starting a career with real support behind it.? 

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays with the option to buy more 

Hybrid working

Group Personal Pension Plan 

Car allowance

Career development & progression with the opportunity to earn professional qualifications  

24/7 access to a virtual GP?and Mental health support & counselling services? 

Cycle to Work scheme? 

Discount club - supermarkets, phone bills, gyms & more!? 

Life assurance cover? 

Long service recognition? 

Active local social committees? 

Regular social events? 

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded HR Business Partner to join our Power division, partnering closely with Senior Leadership Teams and operational leaders to deliver impactful people solutions.

In this role, you’ll act as a trusted advisor, owning the full employee lifecycle and ensuring that our people strategy drives performance, enhances culture, and builds long-term organisational capability. This is a highly visible role where you will balance hands-on operational delivery with strategic, data-led insight.

Working alongside the Head of HR, you’ll play a key role in delivering the divisional people agenda, aligned to the wider HR strategy. You’ll influence workforce effectiveness, strengthen leadership capability, enhance engagement, and support critical business change initiatives.

This role also provides the opportunity to lead on the people aspects of growth activity, including acquisitions, TUPE transfers, and integration programmes, ensuring they are delivered smoothly, compliantly, and with strong commercial outcomes.

What You’ll Be Doing

As an HR Business Partner, you will:

Partner with leaders to develop robust workforce and succession plans, ensuring effective performance management frameworks are in place

Use people data and insights to drive performance improvements and enhance employee engagement

Lead and support organisational design, transformation, and change initiatives end-to-end, including TUPE and acquisitions

Act as a trusted voice within SLT and management forums, providing pragmatic HR and employment law guidance

Support the delivery of key HR initiatives, including engagement surveys, culture programmes, and leadership development

You’ll also provide hands-on support across the full employee lifecycle, including:

Attraction, onboarding, and induction

Probation reviews and performance management

Employee relations (disciplinaries, grievances, absence, and performance concerns)

Flexible working requests

Reward, pay reviews, and benefits

Restructures, redundancy processes, and offboarding

Alongside this, you’ll:

Coach and empower managers to build leadership capability and accountability

Drive consistency and best practice in people management across the business

About You

You’re a confident and credible HR professional who thrives in a fast-paced, matrix environment. You may already be operating at HR Business Partner level, or you’re an experienced Senior HR Advisor ready to step up into your next challenge.

You’ll bring:

A strong generalist HR background with solid experience across the employee lifecycle

Proven experience of leading complex change initiatives, including restructures, TUPE, and contract variations

A strong working knowledge of employment law and its practical application

The ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels

A track record of delivering commercially focused, strategic HR solutions

You’ll also be:

CIPD qualified (Level 5 minimum)

An excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills

Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable navigating change

Proactive in your approach to both business challenges and your own development

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