Northern Powergrid
HR Business Partner
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Do you want to shape the future of our organisation and play a pivotal role in driving business performance through people?
We’re looking for an experienced HR Business Partner to work closely with senior leaders across the business, building strong and trusted relationships to understand their priorities and translate them into a clear, impactful people strategy.
If you’re passionate about organisational design, talent development, strategic planning, and helping leaders get the best from their teams - we’d love to hear from you.
You’ll take a lead role in shaping the people agenda, anticipating future workforce needs, and ensuring our culture, capability, and structure support the delivery of our long-term business goals. Your insight and influence will be crucial as we continue to evolve, transform, and grow.
Ready to help shape our organisation’s future? Let’s talk.
Along with a competitive salary between £55,000 - £65,000, we also offer great benefits such as:
- Annual bonus
- Enrolment into our double-matched pension scheme
- 25 days holiday (rising with service) plus bank holidays
- Car allowance / company car scheme
- Excellent opportunities for career growth
- Payment of professional fees
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy and Planning
- Ensure the people dimension is fully integrated into the business strategies and plans and ensure strategies are in place to tackle key people risks and challenges over the short and longer term
- Work closely with your business to spot opportunities for organisational change or transformation which will improve business performance. Take joint responsibility with the business head to plan and deliver the change
- Drive delivery of an effective organisation that is fit for purpose. Lead strategic expansion initiatives for the areas you partner with
- Take an active role in the budget planning to develop rationale for future years headcount, taking into consideration organisational design and future business plans
- Ensure management information is up to date and accessible as appropriate including talent management information and succession plans
- Contribute to relevant HR KPIs and reports for your business areas
- Be an active contributor to wider people strategy, understanding the objectives of other teams, collaborating across the business and beyond to ensure consistency
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Organisation Capability
- Coach, challenge, and influence leadership to develop the organisational capability required to enable delivery of business strategy; anticipate the changing needs of the business and drive the active management and development of talent
- Lead the talent agenda for your business, understanding the key talent, their strengths, and development needs and actively participate in talent management discussions with the business teams working in partnership with the talent teams
- Have a deep understanding of business resourcing plans. Work closely with the talent and resourcing team, hiring managers, and leaders to ensure we recruit the best, achieve headcount targets, and smooth approval processes
Business Performance
- Champion and manage core processes including performance, annual salary reviews, and personal development planning and ensure that leaders have the skills and capability to maximise the value of the process
- Provide advice, consultancy, and counsel on HR policy and practice. Apply relevant and pragmatic judgement to deliver sensible business outcomes
- Lead on business-wide people-related projects as and when required
- Share knowledge and best practice. Ensure that everything you do is in line with the overall values and principles of the business
- Challenge practices if you believe there are better ways of doing things and inspire others to do the same, fixing things that need fixing, identifying solutions
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People Leadership
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team through regular feedback, goal-setting, and continuous personal development
- Foster a culture that promotes collaboration, accountability, and proactivity amongst the team and in service delivery to stakeholders
- Champion diversity, equality, and inclusion in hiring, development, and daily team interactions
- Manage workload and resources ensuring the team is structured and supported to deliver for stakeholders
- Model leadership behaviours, embodying the organisation’s values and setting standards for professionalism
Skills, Knowledge, Experience & Qualifications:
Essential:
- Level 5 CIPD qualified or equivalent
- Significant HR Business Partner experience in large, complex organisations
- Experience of working in a complex unionised environment
- Extensive knowledge and understanding of employment law and HR best practice and employment policies and procedures with particular focus on complex capability, grievance, and disciplinary
- Previous experience in leading a team of HR Advisors and Coordinators
- Experience of implementing change within an organisation
- Full clean driving license
Desirable:
- Degree qualified in relevant subject e.g. Human Resources/Business Studies
- Experience of industrial relations
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