HR Business Partner
Posted Today by Zachary Daniels Recruitment
£55,000 Per year
Outside
Onsite
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Summary: The HR Business Partner role is a 12-month fixed-term contract based at a Distribution Centre in Milton Keynes, supporting a fast-paced retail business. The position involves partnering with site leadership to drive HR initiatives, manage employee relations, and enhance workforce engagement. The ideal candidate will have strong HR generalist experience, particularly in logistics or retail, and a passion for fostering a positive workplace culture. This role is pivotal in ensuring effective HR support in a dynamic operational environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partnering with the DC leadership team to deliver both strategic and hands-on HR support
- Supporting and coaching managers across performance, engagement and employee relations
- Leading on ER activity, including more complex cases, ensuring a consistent and fair approach
- Supporting workforce planning, structure and organisational changes on site
- Driving engagement, culture and wellbeing initiatives within a fast-paced environment
- Using people data to spot trends and support decision-making
- Playing a key role in developing capability across the management team
- Acting as a trusted advisor, bringing a pragmatic and solutions-focused approach
Key Skills:
- CIPD qualified (or working towards)
- Strong HR generalist / business partnering experience, ideally within a logistics, distribution or retail environment
- Confident managing ER in a fast-paced, operational setting
- Comfortable working on-site and building relationships across all levels
- Pragmatic, resilient and able to work at pace
- Strong communicator with a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up approach
- Passionate about people, culture and making a real impact
Salary (Rate): £55,000/year
City: Milton Keynes
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: HR
HR Business Partner - Supply Chain (12 Month FTC) | Milton Keynes
I'm supporting a well-established, fast-paced retail business as they look to welcome an HR Business Partner into their team on a 12-month maternity cover, based at their Distribution Centre in Milton Keynes.
This is a brilliant opportunity to step into a key role within a busy operational environment, partnering closely with site leadership to support the people agenda and keep things moving at pace.
What you'll be doing
- Partnering with the DC leadership team to deliver both strategic and hands-on HR support
- Supporting and coaching managers across performance, engagement and employee relations
- Leading on ER activity, including more complex cases, ensuring a consistent and fair approach
- Supporting workforce planning, structure and organisational changes on site
- Driving engagement, culture and wellbeing initiatives within a fast-paced environment
- Using people data to spot trends and support decision-making
- Playing a key role in developing capability across the management team
- Acting as a trusted advisor, bringing a pragmatic and solutions-focused approach
About you
- CIPD qualified (or working towards)
- Strong HR generalist / business partnering experience, ideally within a logistics, distribution or retail environment
- Confident managing ER in a fast-paced, operational setting
- Comfortable working on-site and building relationships across all levels
- Pragmatic, resilient and able to work at pace
- Strong communicator with a hands-on, sleeves-rolled-up approach
- Passionate about people, culture and making a real impact
This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys being close to the operation and wants to make a difference in a busy, people-first environment.
Salary c£50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits
Please apply with your most up-to-date CV! BH35906