HR Business Partner

Job Title: HR Business Partner

Location: Leeds, Hybrid/Remote based

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, full time

CTS (Construction Testing Solutions), is a leading provider of on-site and laboratory testing services. Since inception, we have established a reputation for excellence in servicing the UK construction, quarry products and civil engineering industries.

About the role:

This role is based from home, we are looking for candidates based in the northern regions for required site visits.

As a commercially focused HRBP, you will be pro-active implementing policies, processes and activities across the organization, and developing strong relationships.

You will be at ease with high-level meetings delivering against strategic HR goals whilst supporting the leadership team with ongoing change management processes.

You will be working with multiple stakeholders across a number of legal entities, so being able to flex style, join up the dots and identify sounds solutions will be essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Offering timely and professional HR advice and guidance to employees and managers in a helpful and professional manner.
• Experience of developing, implementing, monitoring, and reviewing a range of HR working and employment practices.
• Depth of experience in managing change – restructures, TUPE transfers, outsourcing/insourcing.
• Support the implementation and execution of strategic people and organisation initiatives for their client groups.
• Support and embed organisational change, ensuring that new people initiatives are championed in their client group.
• Provides guidance to managers on employee relations issues, including disciplinary and grievance matters, identifying opportunities and anticipating risks, escalating them to the Head of HR, or legal team as appropriate.
• Ensures that HR processes are executed in alignment with expectations and that process touch points are properly owned/executed including employee lifecycle i.e. on/off boarding, on and off-cycle changes to terms and conditions, colleague engagement etc.
• On an ongoing and cyclical basis: lead, coach and guide areas of: Performance Management, Salary reviews, Organisation and Talent Reviews.
• Enables managers to become self-sufficient with regard to day-to-day employee matters, providing expert guidance on sensitive or high-profile employee relations matters as well as those with wider organisation or strategic impact.
• Understand the people metrics for the assigned business area including headcount, performance, talent, attrition, spans of control, engagement etc and uses data to inform HR actions and priorities.
• Responsibility for HR and business improvement people projects to drive the business forward and to keep developing the culture.
• Sound project and people management skills.
• A trusted partner and advisor.
• Depth and breadth of employment law knowledge and ability to interpret and apply it.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Proven HRBP with previous experience in a similar role/sector such as engineering, manufacturing, service sector.
• A CIPD qualification – Level 5 minimum.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, relationship building, and stakeholder management skills.
• An action-oriented individual, who is solutions focused, can manage multiple priorities, and deliver results on time.
• A good team player, with attention to detail and good problem-solving skills that follows processes in place and prioritises business improvement.
• Experience working as an HRBP, HRM or in a generalist role within a commercial organisation.
• Sound working knowledge of employment law, policies and procedures.
• Involved and passionate, but able to exercise objectivity and detachment towards high quality outcomes.
• Able to challenge and influence at a senior leadership level.
• Is accountable for project and business outcomes.
• Exceptional attention to detail and tech savvy – MS Office Suite, TEAMS.
• Driving Licence required to travel to site locations.
• Able to work at pace, highly organised. Happy working standalone but also as part of a small highly connected team.

Benefits and packages:

• 25 days leave plus bank holidays.
• Perkbox.
• Pension (AE).
• Westfield Health – Health Insurance.
• Buy and Sell holidays.
• Tech Devices.
• Halford Car maintenance.
• Cycle to work.
• Free car parking.
• Hybrid working 3 in the office 2 from home.

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Human Resources Executive HR Business Partner, HR Advisor, Human Resources Advisor, HR Generalist, HR Officer may also be considered for this role.