Senior HR Business Partner

Salary:
Competitive Salary, Company Car Allowance and Benefits

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

Monday to Friday – 9am to 5pm (35 hours per week)

First Port is the UK’s leading property management company, caring for our customers’ homes across England, Wales and Scotland. With over four decades of experience and around 3,000 employees, First Port works with developers, investors, freeholders and over 1,700 Resident Management Companies. It is one of the Division’s that’s sits under Emeria UK.

By joining us as a Senior HR Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in achieving our vision:

• Impactful Work:
  You will directly support First Port’s mission to elevate industry standards and provide an exceptional service to our customers.
• Professional Growth:
  With access to accredited training and development programmes, you will be empowered to reach your potential.
• Supportive Environment:
  We foster a culture where collaboration and innovation thrive, ensuring you feel valued and supported every step of the way.
• A Future of Opportunity:
  Be part of a forward-thinking organisation that is shaping the future of residential property management in the UK.

• Collaborative:
  We build strong, trusted relationships, deliver excellent service, and work together to achieve and celebrate shared success.
• Consistent:
  We stay resilient, uphold high standards, act with professionalism, embrace continuous learning, and deliver reliably.
• Simple:
  We follow clear, structured processes that reduce complexity, create consistency, and make work efficient and easy to follow.
• Clear:
  We communicate what is expected, simplify the complex, and ensure ourselves and others stay focused, accountable, and equipped to deliver.

As the Senior HR Business Partner, you will act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders within their region or business area, translating the organisational people strategy into practical people plans that support business objectives. The role is responsible for building strong commercial relationships with leaders and delivering people solutions that improve organisational performance, capability, employee engagement and workforce resilience.

The Senior HR Business Partner also provides leadership, direction and coaching to HR Business Partners, ensuring effective delivery and strong alignment across the business. The role also works closely with HR Operations and the wider People team to ensure business partnering activity operates within agreed organisational frameworks, standards and processes.

• Translate the organisational people strategy and business objectives into practical regional and business area people plans
• Advise leaders on the workforce and people implications of business plans and organisational priorities
• Support implementation of organisational people initiatives and ensure actions are embedded within the business
• Use people insight and data to inform decisions, identify trends and provide constructive challenge to leaders

• Lead workforce planning activity within the region or business area
• Identify current and future workforce requirements, skills gaps and resourcing risks
• Develop workforce plans that support operational delivery, growth and transformation
• Ensure workforce plans align with organisational headcount governance and financial parameters

• Drive capability planning against organisational competency frameworks
• Identify future skills requirements and build plans to address emerging capability needs
• Support learning and development initiatives linked to business and workforce priorities

• Facilitate talent reviews and…