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Regional HR Business Partner
Salary: £60,000 + £5,700 Car Allowance + Bonus + Private Medical Insurance
Location: North of the M25, covering 38 locations across the North of England and Scotland, plus 5 locations in Ireland
Are you a commercially-minded HR Business Partner who isn't afraid to roll up your sleeves?
Our client is a well-established, multi-site consumer business with ambitious plans and a people-first culture. They are looking for an experienced Regional HR Business Partner to partner senior operational leaders across a large and diverse region, helping to drive performance, engagement and organisational effectiveness.
This is not a role for someone who wants to sit on the side-lines. You'll be a trusted advisor, coach and challenger to senior stakeholders, balancing strategic people priorities with hands-on operational support. You'll have significant influence across the business, helping to shape the people agenda while managing complex employee relations matters and delivering meaningful change.
With approximately 50% of the current workload focused on employee relations, we're looking for someone who genuinely enjoys navigating complex people matters and can confidently own cases from start to finish, while helping the business move towards a more proactive, commercially-driven people agenda.
The Opportunity
Reporting into the Senior People Leadership Team, you'll partner with key operational stakeholders across a region spanning 43 sites. Working closely with Operations, Learning & Development and the wider People Team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the business has the right people capability, structure and culture to deliver its objectives.
This role offers genuine scope to influence at a senior level, including exposure to the Irish Board and a number of key operational leaders.
What You'll Be Doing
Employee Relations Leadership
- Personally manage complex and high-risk employee relations cases.
- Provide expert guidance on disciplinary, grievance, harassment, discrimination, absence management and capability matters.
- Lead and support TUPE projects where required.
- Balance commercial realities with legal compliance and employee experience.
- Coach and develop operational leaders to improve people management capability and reduce future ER risk.
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Strategic Business Partnering
- Build trusted relationships with senior operational stakeholders, acting as both coach and constructive challenger.
- Support leaders in making sound commercial and people-focused decisions.
- Influence organisational effectiveness, workforce planning and succession activity.
- Drive accountability for people metrics and business outcomes.
Talent & People Development
- Support talent identification, succession planning and leadership development.
- Collaborate with Learning & Development teams to ensure capability plans meet business needs.
- Help shape and deliver regional people strategies that strengthen leadership capability and employee engagement.
Change & Transformation
- Support the rollout and embedding of key HR systems and processes.
- Drive behavioural and cultural change initiatives across the region.
- Influence improvements in working hours management, workforce planning and availability.
- Navigate difficult conversations and sensitive operational challenges whilst maintaining engagement, morale and business continuity.
Data & Insight
- Analyse people data and trends to identify opportunities and risks.
- Provide meaningful insights into turnover, engagement, absence and retention.
- Use data to influence decision-making and support proactive interventions.
What We're Looking For
We're seeking a resilient, commercially aware HR professional who combines strategic thinking with exceptional operational execution.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience as a Regional HR Business Partner or Senior HR Business Partner within a multi-site environment.
- Extensive hands-on employee relations experience, including direct ownership of:
- Disciplinary cases
- Grievances
- Harassment investigations
- Discrimination cases
- Absence management
- TUPE activity
- Experience working independently without reliance on a central ER team.
- Strong understanding of UK employment law.
- Experience influencing senior operational stakeholders.
- Comfortable operating in fast-paced, high-volume environments.
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Ideal Sector Backgrounds
We're particularly interested in candidates from:
- Hospitality
- Retail
- Hotels
- Coffee shop and QSR environments
- Facilities Management
- Supermarkets
- Other multi-site, customer-facing businesses with large frontline workforces
Key Attributes
- Highly self-sufficient and proactive.
- Commercially astute with sound judgement.
- Able to challenge constructively and influence at all levels.
- Comfortable managing ambiguity and competing priorities.
- Strong relationship builder with the credibility to gain stakeholder trust quickly.
- Resilient and confident when handling complex or sensitive situations.
- Analytical with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Why Join?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a business that genuinely values its people and is investing in its future. You'll have the autonomy to make an impact, partner with influential leaders, and play a key role in shaping the people strategy across a significant operational region.
If you're an experienced HR Business Partner who thrives in a fast-paced multi-site environment and enjoys combining strategic influence with hands-on delivery, we'd love to hear from you.
Salary: £60,000 + £5,700 Car Allowance + Bonus + Private Medical Insurance
Location: Field-based, covering the North of England, Scotland and Ireland. Reasonable proximity to London is preferred, although not essential.
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