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Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
About The Role
We are looking for a proactive and commercially minded People Business Partner to join our team on a permanent basis, supporting the delivery of strategic people initiatives across the division. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in shaping and executing people strategies that directly support business performance and long-term growth.
You will work closely with leaders, the Group Talent Acquisition function, and L&D teams to ensure the organisation attracts, develops, and retains high-quality talent while fostering a high-performance culture.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic support, driving the development and execution of divisional people plans aligned to business goals
- Partner with Group Talent Acquisition to deliver effective workforce planning, ensuring the right people, skills, and capabilities are in place
- Contribute to and support the delivery of group-wide people initiatives and the annual divisional People activity plan
- Support talent management and succession planning, strengthening leadership capability and developing high potential employees
- Collaborate with L&D to identify and implement opportunities to upskill and build organisational capability
- Provide people-focused support for TUPE transfers, mergers & acquisitions, and integration activity
- Use HR data and analytics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, developing and implementing mitigation plans
- Coach and support leaders to proactively address organisational and people challenges
- Support performance management and reward strategies to drive engagement, accountability, and innovation
- Promote best practice and share insights across the division and wider group to support continuous improvement
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Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in an People Business Partner or Generalist role
- Strong stakeholder management and customer service skills
- Experience supporting HR projects and initiatives
- Knowledge of TUPE (incoming and outgoing) is advantageous
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret and act on data insights
- High attention to detail and accuracy
- Resilient, adaptable, and able to thrive in a dynamic environment
- Strong IT skills, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- CIPD qualified (or equivalent relevant HR experience)
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:
- Contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
In addition, this role offers:
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and Physiotherapy and much more!
- Private Healthcare - Family cover
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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