The Opportunity

Working as part of a small but highly collaborative HR team, you'll support a diverse employee population.

The business has grown through acquisition, bringing together several established businesses with their own ways of working. As a result, a key focus for this role will be helping to create a more consistent employee experience, embedding best-practice HR processes and supporting the development of a unified culture and employer identity.

This is a role for a pragmatic HR professional who can balance strategic thinking with operational excellence. Success will come from building credibility with leaders, strengthening management capability, embedding robust people practices and helping the business achieve its commercial objectives through its people.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with managers across the business to provide pragmatic, commercially-focused HR advice.
• Coach and develop leaders to improve people management capability.
• Support employee relations matters, ensuring fair and consistent outcomes.
• Drive improvements in performance management, talent development and employee engagement.
• Embed HR best practice and ensure fundamental people processes are executed effectively.
• Support organisational change and cultural integration initiatives.
• Use people data and insights to influence decision-making and identify trends.
• Work closely with operational teams to deliver practical HR solutions that support business goals.

About You

We're looking for someone who combines strong commercial awareness with a solid grounding in core HR fundamentals.

• Due to the travel requirements of the role, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential.
• Proven experience in an HR Business Partner or Senior HR Advisor role.
• Experience supporting operational, logistics, manufacturing, industrial, transport, or distribution environments.
• Strong employee relations knowledge and the confidence to advise and challenge managers appropriately.
• A pragmatic, resilient and hands-on approach.
• Excellent stakeholder management and coaching skills.
• The ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.
• A passion for developing managers and improving organisational capability.
• CIPD qualification (or equivalent experience) would be advantageous.

What's on Offer

• Salary of £55,000 + Car Allowance
• Hybrid working arrangement
• Genuine opportunity to influence culture and organisational development
• Supportive HR team and collaborative leadership environment
• A diverse and varied role where no two days are the same

Hybrid role, with a typical week consisting of:

• Two days in the main office (Crewe)
• One day visiting operational sites in Warwickshire and Somerset
• The remaining time working from home

To apply, please ???? [email protected] quoting reference: PR/010547