Wade Macdonald
Human Resources Business Partner (4220)
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People Business Partner – Technical
Wantage – 1-day WFH
£80,000-£85,000
About the Client
Our client is a prestigious organisation operating within the Automotive sector, with a substantial heritage and a strong focus on achieving exceptional levels of performance. Operating within a fast-paced, highly technical environment, the organisation brings together talented people across engineering, manufacturing and professional disciplines.
About the Successful Applicant
You will have previous HR Business Partnering experience, ideally gained within a technical, engineering or manufacturing environment. CIPD Level 5 or equivalent is required, alongside strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills. You will be comfortable using people analytics to inform decisions, managing ambiguity and supporting organisational change within a fast-paced, multidisciplinary and performance-led environment.
About the Job
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced People Business Partner to work closely with leaders across technical areas of the organisation. You will translate operational priorities into practical people plans, helping leaders build capability, strengthen engagement and develop high-performing teams.
Working collaboratively across the wider People function, you will provide coaching, insight and constructive challenge while supporting workforce planning, talent, organisational development and employee relations.
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Duties will include:
- Building trusted relationships with managers and leaders, providing practical and strategic People advice.
- Coaching managers to strengthen leadership capability and encourage a consistently high-performing culture.
- Supporting employee engagement initiatives and helping leaders turn feedback into meaningful actions.
- Identifying current and future skills requirements and developing workforce plans to address capability gaps.
- Partnering with Finance and Early Careers teams to support effective and commercially focused workforce planning.
- Supporting talent reviews, succession planning and capability development across technical teams.
- Working with learning and talent specialists to identify development requirements and improve employee retention.
- Using people analytics and commercial information to identify workforce risks, opportunities for cost optimisation and organisational design requirements.
- Partnering with Talent Acquisition on talent mapping and resourcing strategies to build strong pipelines for critical and specialist roles.
- Supporting the effective delivery of performance reviews, objective setting and annual salary review processes.
- Using internal and external data to provide leaders with evidence-based recommendations and improve workforce decision-making.
- Working alongside Employee Relations specialists to support managers with a broad range of employee relations matters.
- Collaborating with specialist People teams to improve the employee experience and deliver effective, future-focused People solutions.
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What You Will Receive in Return
You will join a high-profile organisation offering exposure to technically complex and commercially demanding areas of the business. The position provides the opportunity to work closely with leaders, influence the people agenda and further develop your HR Business Partnering career within a high-performance environment.
The benefits package includes:
- 26 days' annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
- Private medical insurance
- Health Cash Plan
- Pension scheme
- Life insurance worth four times your annual salary.
- Income protection providing 70% of salary.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme telephone support.
- 24-hour on-site gym
- Subsidised meals
- Free on-site parking with access to EV charging points.
- Discounted Mercedes and EV car scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme, offering a tax-saving voucher of up to £7,500.
- Employee discounts
- Recognition vouchers redeemable with a range of high street retailers.
- Staff events and open days for employees, friends and family.
Please get in touch now if you are interested – Jodie.hayden@wademacdonald.com
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