Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
People Business Partner - 6 month FTC
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Location
- Birmingham
Shift
- Full Time, Monday to Friday
Contract
- 6 Months Fixed Term Contract
At Mitie, our people are our greatest strength, and our promise is to create a place to work where you can thrive and be your best every day. We're looking for a People Business Partner to work closely with the Senior People Business Partner and Senior Leadership Team, delivering people strategies that drive engagement, performance, and business success.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to influence business performance through strategic people planning, talent development, employee relations, and organizational change within a fast-paced operational environment.
Role Responsibilities
- Partner with the Account Director and Senior Leadership Team to align people strategies with business objectives and operational priorities.
- Utilize people data, metrics, and external market insights to identify key trends and develop forward-thinking people plans.
- Support the delivery of strategic initiatives across compensation, benefits, recruitment, engagement, and talent development.
- Develop strong relationships with key clients, ensuring people strategies support both business and client objectives.
- Provide expert guidance on employee relations, talent management, succession planning, organizational change, and restructuring activities.
- Deliver accurate and timely people management information to support strategic decision-making.
- Support large-scale mobilizations, change programs, and TUPE activities where required.
What we're looking for
- Proven HR experience within a commercially focused environment.
- Strong background in employee relations, reward, talent management, succession planning, and organizational change.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and challenge constructively when required.
- Experience using people data and analytics to inform business decisions and people strategies.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish credibility quickly.
- Resilient, pragmatic, and solutions-focused approach to people management.
- Experience within an Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) environment would be advantageous.
- Experience supporting large-scale mobilizations and TUPE transfers is highly desirable.
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Required Qualifications
- CIPD qualification desirable.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and SharePoint.
- Full UK driving license essential.
What's in it for you?
- Opportunity to influence strategic people initiatives within a leading facilities management organization.
- Exposure to a broad range of HR projects, organizational change programs, and talent initiatives.
- Opportunity to work closely with senior leaders and key clients, helping shape the future of the business.
- Ongoing learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth.
There's a place for you at Mitie, join us today!
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment, or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
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We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms, and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition, or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes, or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Chloe Smailes at chloe.smailes@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites, as well as hospitals and schools.
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