Human Resources - Senior HR Business Partner Job in Wolverhampton

Wolverhampton 3-4 days a week We're partnering with a large, complex advanced engineering and manufacturing organisation to appoint an HR Business Partner supporting a significant operational business unit alongside several specialist functions. This isn't the type of HRBP role where you spend your days updating policies, forwarding emails or sitting on the sidelines giving advice from afar. You'll be embedded within the business. Involved in real people problems, organisational change, talent decisions and business critical projects. It's a role for someone who genuinely enjoys business partnering and wants to have a visible impact. The business is going through significant change and investment. There are major systems implementations underway, organisational design projects taking shape, critical skills shortages to solve, succession challenges to address and a growing demand for stronger leadership capability across the organisation. Some days you'll be coaching managers. Other days you'll be analysing workforce challenges, supporting recruitment of hard to find talent, helping shape organisational structures or contributing to business wide change initiatives. The primary focus initially will be supporting a high performing operational division alongside a portfolio of corporate functions including areas such as IT, programmes, engineering and planning. You'll quickly become the go to person for leaders who need pragmatic, commercial and credible people support. You may already be an HR Business Partner. You might be a Senior HR Advisor, HR Manager or People Partner operating at HRBP level without officially carrying the title. Partnering with managers and leaders rather than purely providing administrative HR support. Managing employee relations cases with confidence, including disciplinary, grievance, performance, absence or restructuring activity. Supporting talent reviews, succession planning or workforce planning discussions. Contributing to change initiatives, restructures or organisational improvement projects. You'll enjoy building trust and becoming part of a leadership team rather than sitting outside it. Curious about how businesses actually work. Commercially minded and interested in how people decisions impact business performance. Most importantly, you'll have the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively when needed whilst still building strong relationships. This isn't a pure HR administration role. It isn't a policy writing role. And it probably isn't right for someone who prefers to stay away from employee relations entirely. There are complex cases, demanding stakeholders and challenging projects. HR Business Partners regularly move between different business areas, giving exposure to new leaders, different challenges and wider organisational experience. You'll work alongside a highly supportive HR team who genuinely collaborate and share knowledge. You'll gain exposure to large-scale change programmes, operational leadership teams, talent strategy, workforce planning and business-critical projects that many HR professionals simply don't get access to. If you're looking for a role that will stretch you, build your capability and accelerate your HR career, we'd like to speak with you. If you're currently doing much of this already, even if your current title doesn't say "HR Business Partner", we'd encourage you to apply.