Senior Human Resources Business Partner

Senior HR Business Partner

West Midlands | Hybrid / Field Based | Permanent

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Are you an experienced Senior HR Business Partner who can operate just as confidently with frontline operational teams as you can with Directors and senior leadership?

We’re partnering with a large, customer-focused organisation to recruit a Senior HR Business Partner into a highly visible and influential role.

This is an opportunity for a commercially minded HR leader who understands the realities of fast-paced, geographically dispersed operations, but who can also step back from the day-to-day and shape a broader people agenda.

You’ll work closely with senior leaders to ensure the people strategy directly supports business growth, operational performance, organisational effectiveness and an exceptional customer and colleague experience.

The role

As Senior HR Business Partner, you’ll act as a trusted strategic partner to Directors and senior leaders, providing insight, challenge and practical solutions across a broad and evolving people agenda.

Your remit will include:

• Partnering with senior leaders to shape and deliver people strategies aligned to commercial and operational priorities
• Providing strategic advice across organisational design, leadership capability, workforce effectiveness, culture and change
• Leading workforce planning, succession and talent strategies to build capability for future growth
• Using people data, commercial insight and analytics to identify challenges and influence evidence-based decision making
• Supporting significant organisational transformation and change programmes
• Coaching and challenging senior leaders to strengthen accountability, engagement and performance
• Identifying opportunities to improve organisational structures, processes, ways of working and team effectiveness
• Partnering with specialist HR teams across areas including talent, reward, learning, inclusion, wellbeing and employee relations
• Contributing to the wider HR strategy and driving continuous improvement across the organisation

About you

We’re looking for an established Senior HR Business Partner who brings a strong combination of commercial thinking, strategic capability and operational credibility.

You’ll ideally have:

• Significant experience operating at Senior HR Business Partner, Senior People Partner or equivalent level within a large, complex organisation
• A strong track record of partnering with Directors and senior leadership teams
• Experience translating business priorities into commercially focused people strategies
• Proven experience leading organisational change, transformation and capability-building initiatives
• Strong expertise across workforce planning, talent and succession
• The ability to use people data and commercial metrics to influence priorities and decision making
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and coaching skills, with the confidence to constructively challenge senior leaders
• A pragmatic approach and the ability to move comfortably between strategic conversations and the realities of frontline operations
• Experience within logistics, retail, automotive, service operations or similarly fast-paced, customer-facing and operational environments would be particularly advantageous

The opportunity

This role would suit someone who enjoys being close enough to the operation to genuinely understand its challenges, while having the strategic capability and credibility to influence at the highest level.

It’s not a purely operational HRBP position, nor is it a role for someone who has become removed from the frontline. The successful individual will be able to bridge both worlds, connecting people priorities directly to growth, productivity, performance and organisational change.

The role is based in the West Midlands with a hybrid and field-based working pattern. xwzovoh Regular UK travel will form part of the position, so flexibility to travel is important.

If you’re a commercially minded Senior HR Business Partner who enjoys complex, fast-moving environments and wants the opportunity to make a genuine impact, we’d love to hear from you.