Senior HR Business Partner

Do you have experience leading an HR Business Partnering team across a complex, multi-site operational organisation?

Can you demonstrate strong commercial involvement in new-business tenders, contract renewals and customer partnerships?

Are you comfortable influencing Business Unit Directors while leading major change, talent and organisational effectiveness programmes?

MacGregor Black are partnering with a leading international logistics organisation on the search for a Senior HR Business Partner. This is a permanent, regionally focused role covering the East Midlands, with regular travel across operational and customer locations.

Reporting to the Head of HR, this is a senior strategic and commercially focused position with responsibility for leading an HR Business Partnering team and shaping the people agenda across a significant Contract Logistics business area.

Operating as a trusted partner to Business Unit Directors and their senior leadership teams, you will ensure the people strategy supports operational delivery, organisational capability and profitable growth. The role also has a major external and commercial dimension, supporting customer relationships, contract renewals, organic growth and new-business tenders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of HR Business Partners, ensuring a consistent and high-quality service across the business.
• Partner Business Unit Directors and senior leadership teams to shape and deliver strategic people plans.
• Provide leadership and strategic direction across talent, engagement, organisational design, performance, reward and complex employee relations.
• Lead the people agenda for new-business opportunities, contract mobilisations, renewals and organic growth.
• Support the tender process from initial RFQ through to customer presentation and implementation.
• Build credible relationships with customers and identify people solutions that enhance commercial performance.
• Lead complex organisational change, TUPE, restructuring and business transformation programmes.
• Manage collective bargaining, industrial disputes and senior Trade Union relationships.
• Evaluate the commercial implications of people decisions, including settlements, severance arrangements and organisational changes.
• Use HR data and performance metrics to identify workforce risks, operational trends and opportunities.
• Strengthen succession planning, talent pipelines and senior leadership capability.
• Lead HR improvement projects and develop more efficient, commercially relevant ways of working.
• Work closely with HR Centres of Excellence, Shared Services, Business Development and Project Management teams.
• Represent the HR function at senior leadership, customer and external industry forums.

What We’re Looking For:

• Substantial experience in a Senior HR Business Partner, Head of HR or equivalent senior partnering position.
• Proven experience leading and developing HR Business Partners or a comparable HR team.
• Strong commercial and business acumen developed within logistics, supply chain, distribution or another complex operational environment.
• Demonstrable experience supporting bids, tenders, new-business wins, contract renewals or customer-facing commercial activity.
• Extensive experience leading complex change, TUPE, restructuring and organisational design.
• Strong knowledge of UK employment law and industrial relations.
• Experience managing collective bargaining and complex Trade Union relationships.
• The credibility to influence Business Unit Directors, senior executives and external customers.
• Strong negotiation, presentation and stakeholder-management skills.
• The ability to balance commercial priorities with colleague, legal and organisational considerations.
• CIPD qualified or possessing equivalent senior-level professional experience.
• Flexibility to travel regularly across UK operational and customer sites.

Please contact Alice Redmond today for further information.