Human Resources Business Partner - 11 months FTC

HR Business Partner - 11 months Maternity Cover

If you’re in the trade or have ever tackled a home improvement project, you’ve probably heard of us. We’re the Huws Gray Group and we’re made up of a number of brands, including Huws Gray, PDM, Hirebase, Civils & Lintels, The Timber Group, NDI and Anglia Tool Centre, to name a few. Up and down the UK, our branches are serving and supporting our local communities with all their building material needs, but we couldn’t do this without the right people, so why not join us?

Partnering with key members of our senior and HR leadership teams on the people agenda and delivering HR strategies, this role will help drive the growth and profitability within our Northern Division and Hire Operation. The post holder must be flexible to travel.

What will I be doing?

• Building highly effective relationships with your stakeholders, ensuring a positive culture exists
• Providing senior-level solution-focused coaching, playing the role of a trusted advisor to challenge business thinking and aid the required decision-making
• Playing a key role in shaping the HR agenda, driving and cascading agreed initiatives
• Championing colleague engagement through effective partnering of senior leaders
• Undertaking talent and succession planning reviews, ensuring we are developing our capability across the business
• Managing change, ensuring all business reorganisations and change projects, including TUPE’s are managed in line with legislation, policy and cultural values
• Striving to raise the capability for managers to develop confidence to become more confident and self-sufficient in all areas of people management
• Ensuring a robust approach to managing performance, increasing overall skills and capabilities in the business, increasing the level of empowerment and ability to manage change
• Working with the wider HR function to ensure we are delivering a first-class, market-leading service that ensures sustainable success
• Driving the implementation of the people plans to focus on attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining the best talent through using data, insight and support of COE and Shared Services

We Know That You Are More Than Just a CV And Embracing Everyone’s Individuality Is What Makes Us Great As a Team.

We Are Looking For The Successful Person To Have The Following

• Highly developed HRBP experience partnering and coaching senior leaders with a demonstrable track record of achieving success in a geographically dispersed, customer-facing organisation
• Demonstratable ability to ruthlessly prioritise and achieve quality and on-time delivery of critical activities
• Personal integrity, dependability and confidentiality
• An ability to work in an agile environment that also has a high level of ambiguity
• Ability to question and challenge the status quo, shows curiosity to listen and learn and identify causal influences
• Knowledge and application of different leadership styles to support coaching, feedback, engagement and influencing
• Ability and willingness to deliver workshops to our management population
• Commercially minded and able to quickly grasp the business success metrics of the areas that they support
• Strong ER capability and understanding of employment law
• A change catalyst
• Implemented a range of changes around Operating Model and OD including restructures, redundancies, TUPE etc.
• Can operate at pace and across multiple agendas at the same time
• Desirable - CIPD, or equivalent educational achievement (Level 7), plus experience

What will I get in return?

• Competitive salary
• 24 days annual leave, plus bank holidays pro rata to your contract
• Company car or car allowance
• Company performance bonus scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Discounts on high street retailers, supermarkets, restaurants, gyms and cinemas
• Company-funded life assurance
• A generous colleague discount scheme
• A range of training and development programmes to support your growth

At Huws Gray, we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce makes us stronger, smarter and better at serving our customers. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to creating a respectful and inclusive workplace, whether you’re based in one of our branches, on the road or in one of our offices. If you need any adjustments to support you through the application or interview process, please let us know.