Wates Group
People Partner
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The Vacancy
🌟 People Partner
📍 Liverpool 💼 Liberty
Join Liberty and Help Shape the Future of Our People Strategy! 💙
At Liberty, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We're looking for an experienced and passionate People Partner to join our People Team and play a key role in supporting managers, driving positive people outcomes, and helping create a workplace where everyone can thrive.
This is an exciting opportunity for a HR professional who enjoys building strong relationships, influencing decision-making, and providing practical people solutions that make a real difference across the business.
🚀 What You'll Be Doing
As our People Partner, you'll work closely with managers and leaders to deliver a proactive, pragmatic and commercially focused HR service, including:
- Providing expert advice and guidance on employee relations matters including disciplinary, grievance, absence and performance management
- Coaching and supporting managers to confidently apply HR policies and procedures
- Supporting organisational change projects, including restructures, redeployment, redundancies and TUPE transfers
- Partnering with managers on workforce planning, talent management and succession planning initiatives
- Promoting recruitment best practice and working closely with the Recruitment Team to attract and retain great talent
- Delivering management development sessions and supporting leadership capability growth
- Building positive relationships with Trade Union partners and key stakeholders across the business
- Supporting equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives and promoting an inclusive culture
- Ensuring accurate people and payroll data through effective management of HR systems and processes
- Leading and supporting People projects that drive continuous improvement and business success
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👀 What We're Looking For
We're keen to hear from people who have:
- Previous HR Business Partner / People Partner experience
- Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and HR best practice
- Experience managing complex employee relations cases
- Excellent stakeholder management and coaching skills
- Experience supporting organisational change and transformation activities
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the confidence to challenge constructively
- The ability to build credibility and influence at all levels of the organisation
- A passion for creating positive employee experiences and helping people succeed
💙 Why Liberty?
At Liberty, we're proud of our values of Passion, Openness, Respect and Trust.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, supported and empowered to reach their full potential. We recognise that our people are our greatest asset and we're dedicated to providing an environment where you can develop your career and make a meaningful impact.
📢 External Applicants
Apply now and take the next step in your HR career with Liberty. We'd love to hear from you!
Work for Wates
Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.
We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:
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- Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
- Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
- Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.
We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer. We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.
Work for Wates
Wates Group is one of the largest, and most successful family-owned private construction, development, and property services companies in the UK. We are building a place to work where everyone belongs, by one small act of inclusion at a time. We celebrate difference and welcome diversity.
As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.
The Wates Group are committed to three ambitious environmental targets for 2025: Zero Waste, and Zero Carbon, from our operations and Positive Nature Enhancement. Wates are pushing to take a leading role in reducing our industry’s environmental impact.
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