HR Business Partner

HR Business Partner – 6 Month FTC
£35,000–£40,000 + Car Allowance
Wolverhampton WV14 0UJ
(Hybrid) – Nationwide Travel Required

Are you an experienced HR professional ready to make an immediate impact? We’re looking for a credible and proactive HR Business Partner to support the Head of People in delivering our people strategy across multiple business units. This is a fast-paced, hands-on role where you’ll coach managers, lead on key people initiatives, and help shape a high-performance culture.

Main Purpose of the Role
You’ll partner with managers across the business to deliver high-quality HR support, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations while driving key people priorities including training, development, employee relations, performance, engagement, and organisational design.

Partnering & People Delivery

Provide proactive HR support to managers across multiple business units, ensuring smooth daily operations and high-quality people practices.
Lead and advise on complex employee relations matters, performance management, absence, and Trade Union engagement.
Support organisational design, restructuring, TUPE, acquisitions, and major change projects.
Produce accurate people MI to identify trends and drive improvements.
Talent, Learning & Culture

Deliver and embed training and development initiatives, including operational skills, apprenticeships, and mandatory training compliance.
Manage learning platforms and support wider Group L&D activity.
Champion talent management, succession planning, and continuous learning, including leading apprenticeship and government-led initiatives.
Drive colleague engagement through post-survey action planning and ongoing colleague insight.
Leadership Coaching & People Operations

Coach managers to build capability in ER, performance, leadership, and change management.
Ensure consistent, high-quality colleague experiences through collaboration with People Operations.
Support pay, T&Cs consultations, and TU negotiations with senior leaders.
Maintain strong working knowledge of UK employment law and apply commercial, practical HR partnering.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience

CIPD Level 5 (or working towards) preferred.
Experience delivering training in a multi-site environment.
Strong commercial awareness and field-based HR business partnering experience.
Proven experience managing complex ER issues.
Background in large-scale restructures and redundancies.
Working knowledge of TUPE and experience supporting acquisition integrations.
Experience leading pay, T&Cs consultations and Trade Union negotiations with senior management.

Some of our benefits include:

Annual Leave – 23 days + bank holidays
Life Assurance – 2x basic annual salary
Bereavement Counselling – Support during difficult times
Free Onsite Parking
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – Confidential counselling via Health Assured
Eye Care Support – Free eye tests and up to £70 towards glasses

About The Company
Restore Commitment to Disability Confidence

We assess candidates based on their experience and suitability for the role, as outlined in their CV and application. You can let us know about any adjustments you may need via the application form.
As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview to applicants with a disability or health condition who meet the essential criteria, where it is fair and appropriate to do so