Human Resources Business Partner
2 days ago
Wolverhampton
Location: Wolverhampton (2/3 days home working) Contract Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.45am – 5.00pm (37 hours per week) Salary: £50,000 - £58,000 We’re partnering with a respected public sector organisation in Wolverhampton to recruit a HR Business Partner on a full time permanent basis. This is a fantastic opportunity to drive people-focused change, guide critical organisational transformation, and influence senior leaders on best-practice people management within a values-led environment. What Makes This a Great Opportunity • You'll join an organisation committed to service excellence and continuous improvement, offering a flexible hybrid working model and generous benefits including 30 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays), a well-regarded pension scheme, employee assistance programme, and access to retail discounts, • You’ll have the autonomy to lead on complex and meaningful HR projects while partnering closely with senior stakeholders and trade unions. If you're motivated by influencing strategic outcomes and navigating high-risk HR challenges, this could be a perfect fit What You’ll Be Doing • Providing expert advice and support to senior managers and heads of departments on both strategic and operational HR policy, • Delivering guidance to senior managers on organisational design and leading on change activity, including job design, service redesign, restructure and redundancy, • Building effective and productive relationships with recognised trade unions, advising and supporting collective matters, • Providing support to management on complex and high-risk cases, such as employment tribunal claims, • Encouraging effective people management competencies by supporting, coaching and influencing senior management on performance management, succession planning, reward, and employee relations What You’ll Need • Strong experience providing HR support at a senior level within a complex, unionised environment, • A deep understanding of employment law, organisational design and employee relations, • The ability to manage multiple strategic and operational priorities while building strong relationships across all levels, • CIPD qualification (Level 7 or equivalent experience) preferred, • Excellent influencing and coaching skills with a proactive, solutions-focused approach James Andrews is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role. We try to respond to all applications personally; however, due to high volumes this isn’t always possible. If you have not heard from us within 72 hours, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.