M Group
Senior People Business Partner
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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.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Transport, we draw on decades of experience to shape the future of UK transport through innovation, sustainable design and intelligent engineering. By bringing together expertise across highways and rail and aviation, we deliver forward-thinking infrastructure solutions that connect people, places and economies nationwide.
Our teams operate across roads, rail, aviation and defence- creating integrated, resilient networks that not only keep the country moving but also support long-term economic growth and strengthen communities.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
This is a strategic and influential leadership role where you’ll operate at the heart of the business:
- Lead and inspire a high-performing team of People Business Partners, setting the standard for excellence
- Shape and deliver the People strategy, driving real alignment with ambitious business goals
- Partner with senior leaders, acting as a trusted adviser to influence, challenge and elevate decision-making
- Design the future organisation—leading workforce planning, succession, talent and organisational design
- Drive a thriving culture, championing engagement, inclusion, wellbeing and performance
- Lead change and transformation, embedding new ways of working across a complex, evolving business
- Develop exceptional leaders, enabling high-performing, inclusive teams to flourish
- Use insight and data intelligently to influence strategy, identify risk and unlock opportunity
- Own critical people lifecycle activity, from mobilisation and work winning to transformation programmes
- Collaborate across Centres of Excellence, delivering impactful, business-critical initiatives
- Step up as a senior leader, deputising for the People Director as required
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What You’ll Bring
We’re looking for someone who combines strategic thinking, commercial sharpness and authentic leadership:
- A proven track record in a senior People/HR leadership role, within a complex environment
- Deep, credible technical HR expertise, with the ability to translate this into business impact
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to align people strategy with performance outcomes
- Exceptional stakeholder influence skills, with credibility at executive level
- The confidence to challenge, coach and inspire leaders
- A highly agile, resilient mindset, comfortable navigating ambiguity and competing priorities
Most importantly, you’ll bring energy, curiosity and ambition—the kind that raises the bar for those around you.
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;
- Matched or 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
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Additional benefits for this role:
- Company car & fuel card (including EV/hybrid options)
- Salary sacrifice car scheme
- Private healthcare
- 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Holiday purchase scheme
- Personal accident cover
- Referral bonus scheme
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’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting 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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