Human Resources Business Partner
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 August 2025 |
| Location: | Greater Manchester, M1 1AA |
| Company: | Huws Gray |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG4285-NY1293993SheHRBP |
Summary
HR Business Partner
Please note, this role covers the North of England and Wales
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 Merchanting & Plant & Tool Hire divisions.
What will I be doing?
Building highly effective relationships with your stakeholders, ensuring a positive culture exists
Providing senior level solution focussed coaching, playing the role of 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 businesses 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
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 same time
Desirable - CIPD, or equivalent educational achievement (Level 7), plus experience
What will I get in return?
Competitive salary
23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays pro rata to your contract
Company car or car allowance
Company performance bonus scheme
Contributary pension scheme
Company funded life assurance
A generous colleague discount scheme
A range of training and development programmes to help you progress your career
Please note, this role covers the North of England and Wales
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 Merchanting & Plant & Tool Hire divisions.
What will I be doing?
Building highly effective relationships with your stakeholders, ensuring a positive culture exists
Providing senior level solution focussed coaching, playing the role of 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 businesses 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
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 same time
Desirable - CIPD, or equivalent educational achievement (Level 7), plus experience
What will I get in return?
Competitive salary
23 days annual leave, plus bank holidays pro rata to your contract
Company car or car allowance
Company performance bonus scheme
Contributary pension scheme
Company funded life assurance
A generous colleague discount scheme
A range of training and development programmes to help you progress your career
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