HR Business Partner

 🚀 HR Business Partner – WPS

📍 Manchester (with national travel)

Are you a HR professional who thrives on influencing leaders, driving performance, and shaping people strategies?

At WPS, we're looking for a confident and proactive HR Business Partner to play a key role in delivering impactful people solutions across our business. This is a fantastic opportunity to partner with senior leaders, support growth, and truly make a difference.

🌟 About the Role

As an HR Business Partner, you'll work closely with leadership teams to deliver best-in-class people practices, ensuring alignment with our wider business strategy. You'll bring challenge, insight, and expertise—helping us create a high-performing, engaged, and inclusive workforce.

This is a national role with travel required, giving you exposure across multiple business areas and projects.

🔑 What You'll Be Doing

• 🤝 Partner with senior leaders to coach, challenge and support on all people matters
• 📊 Deliver key people processes, including salary and bonus reviews, ensuring data integrity
• 📈 Drive performance management and talent development, supporting succession planning across the business
• 🔄 Lead and support business change and transformation programmes
• 🧠 Use data and insight to support business planning and decision-making
• 🎯 Create and deliver resourcing plans aligned to business needs and D&I goals
• 📚 Support capability development through learning & development interventions
• ⚖️ Manage employee relations cases effectively and consistently
• ✅ Ensure governance, compliance and best practice are embedded across all people processes

💡 What We're Looking For

• Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner or senior HR professional
• Strong ability to influence, coach and challenge stakeholders at all levels
• Experience driving change, transformation and people initiatives
• Solid understanding of ER, performance management, and talent development
• A data-led mindset with the ability to turn insight into action
• A collaborative approach, with a passion for delivering great people outcomes

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks. 

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting 

👉 Ready to make your mark?

Apply now and be part of something bigger at WPS! ✨

Our commitments:  

WPS is proud to be an employer where anyone can thrive, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.  We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement, as we value transferable skills and assess all applications fairly.

We don't discriminate based on a criminal record; all applications are reviewed on an individual basis against the requirements of the role. Some roles may require additional checks, due to the nature of the work.  As a Disability Confident Leader, we offer an interview to applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role and opt in to the Disability Confident scheme.  Reasonable adjustments are available, please contact us at wpsrecruitment@wates.co.uk