Ibstock Plc
People Partner (Manager Support)
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People Partner (Manager Support)
The opportunity
Build your future with Ibstock. With more than 200 years of history and over 1,800 colleagues, we are a business loaded with opportunity. Our values of care, teamwork, and courage guide how we work, support one another and deliver for our customers.
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially-minded People Partner (Manager Support) to partner with leaders and managers across our UK operations and support functions.
This is a hands-on role focused on turning people and workforce plans into practical action. You’ll work alongside factory and functional managers to strengthen leadership capability, embed effective people practices, and support organisational change. Through your coaching, advice, and challenge, you’ll help managers create a consistent and positive employee experience while improving engagement, performance, retention, and productivity.
This role supports leaders across both our operational and SG&A functions, combining hands-on partnership with managers and collaboration with People Centres of Expertise to deliver effective people solutions, build capability, and support business priorities.
What you’ll do
Partnering with leaders
- Build trusted relationships with operational and functional leaders, providing practical, commercially focused people advice.
- Coach, advise, and constructively challenge managers to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team capability.
Delivering people and workforce plans
- Translate people and workforce plans into clear, practical actions for leaders and managers.
- Implement talent, performance, succession, and employee engagement initiatives.
Building organisational capability
- Identify learning and capability needs and work with People Centres of Expertise to develop appropriate solutions.
- Support managers with performance management, team development, career pathways, resource planning, and recruitment.
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Using insight to drive action
- Use people management information to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Bring emerging themes to the attention of leaders and ensure appropriate action is taken.
Embedding effective people practices
- Deliver and implement people policies, processes, and services consistently.
- Work collaboratively with Employee Services and People Centres of Expertise to ensure solutions are practical, relevant, and aligned with business needs.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and continuously improve people processes.
- Contribute to consultation, collective bargaining, collective disputes, and TUPE activity where required.
What you’ll bring
- Broad generalist HR knowledge, including experience across talent development, organisation design, employee relations, change, performance management, workforce planning, and succession.
- Exposure to compensation and benefits and employee engagement.
- Strong communication, influencing, and relationship-management skills.
- Commercial awareness and sound business acumen.
- The ability to establish credibility and positively challenge stakeholders.
- Strong facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
- A good understanding of people policies, processes, and specialist HR services.
- The ability to interpret business and people information, identify trends, and turn insights into action.
- Planning, project-management, and change-management capability.
- Confidence, independence, and a strong belief in the value an effective People function can bring to the business.
- Full driving licence and willingness to travel nationally when required.
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It would be great if you also have
- Experience within a manufacturing, engineering, or industrial environment.
- Experience working in a unionised setting.
- Exposure to business planning and commercially focused performance measures.
- Experience leading organisational change and consultation activity.
- CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience using HR systems and people analytics to identify improvement opportunities.
Why Ibstock?
This is an opportunity to make a visible difference across a varied UK business. You’ll work directly with leaders, helping them navigate people challenges, build stronger teams, and translate business priorities into meaningful action.
Ready to help our managers and teams perform at their best? Apply today.
What you’ll get
- Competitive salary, rewarding your skills and experience.
- Car allowance.
- Hybrid working, where appropriate to the role.
- Life assurance
- Pension scheme with employer contributions matched up to 10%.
- Full access to our Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family, including Digicare+ provided by Aviva.
- Share Save scheme eligibility.
- Access to a high-street retail discounts platform.
- Personal development and career progression opportunities.
Interested?
If you're an experienced people professional who thrives on coaching leaders, driving change, and delivering practical business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in a role where you can make a real difference by helping leaders succeed, strengthening organisational capability, and creating a positive experience for our people.
We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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