Location: Multi site UK
Salary: £60,000–£70,000
Excellent Benefits
Working Pattern: Hybrid / multi-site
The Opportunity is with a leading global logistics and supply chain organisation is looking to appoint an experienced and commercially minded HR Business Partner to support its Contract Logistics operation.
This is a strategic HRBP position, working closely with senior operational leaders across a significant multi-site business. The successful candidate will provide insight, challenge and commercially focus HR solutions that support both people and business performance.
This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional who wants to move beyond traditional HR partnering and have a genuine influence on commercial performance, organisational design, growth and change.
The Role
As HR Business Partner, you will:
Partner with senior operational leaders to deliver the people strategy across Contract Logistics.
Provide strategic HR advice, coaching and constructive challenge to managers and leadership teams.
Take ownership of key people projects, including organisational change, restructures and new business mobilisation.
Support talent management, succession planning and the development of internal and external talent pipelines.
Build strong relationships with Trade Unions and local colleague representative groups.
Manage and support complex employee and industrial relations matters.
Use HR data and metrics to identify trends, risks and opportunities across the operation.
Work collaboratively with HR Centres of Excellence and Shared Services.
Support new business tenders, contract renewals and business development activity.
Work directly with customers where required, including presenting and supporting the HR proposition during tenders and renewals.
Challenge organisational design and people decisions to ensure they support operational performance and profitability.
Lead people workstreams through periods of business change and continuous improvement.
About You:
We're looking for an experienced HR professional who can operate confidently at a strategic level.
You'll ideally bring:
Proven HR Business Partner experience within a complex, multi site, fast-paced organisation.
3PL, contract logistics, manufacturing, FMCG, transport, warehousing experience.
Proven experience working with recognised Trade Unions.
Experience supporting tenders, contract mobilisation, contract renewals or customer-facing business development.
Strong commercial acumen and an understanding of how people decisions impact business performance and P&L.
Significant experience supporting operational or blue-collar workforces.
Strong employee relations and industrial relations experience.
Experience of organisational change, restructuring and ideally TUPE.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge senior leaders constructively.
Experience working across multiple sites or a geographically dispersed workforce.
Strong talent management and succession planning experience.
Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills.
The confidence to operate directly with customers and commercial stakeholders.
You'll be:
Commercially focused rather than purely HR-led. Understand how HR has an impact on the bottom line.
Strategic and proactive, with the ability to see the bigger picture.
Comfortable operating in a challenging and fast-moving environment.
Confident enough to challenge senior operational stakeholders.
Credible with both frontline operational teams and senior leadership.
Comfortable working autonomously across multiple locations.
Passionate about using HR to improve business performance.
A strong communicator who can build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
If you're an experienced HRBP looking for a role where you can genuinely influence commercial performance, organisational design, growth and change, we'd be interested in hearing from you
Salary description
£60000.00 - £70000.00 per year