Job Description:

Senior HR Business Partner - Contract

Location: Manchester (with occasional travel to Nottingham and London)
Contract: 3-4 months - Temporary Assignment
Rate: £270 per day
Hours: Full Time - Monday to Friday 37.5 hours

The Opportunity

We are seeking an exceptional Senior HR Business Partner to join a fast-paced, multi-site distribution operation on an interim basis. This role requires a highly credible HR leader who can quickly establish trust with senior stakeholders, provide strategic direction, and deliver tangible business impact from day one.

This is not a traditional operational HRBP role. We are looking for someone who brings strong leadership presence, commercial acumen, and proven experience influencing senior leaders within complex operational environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with senior operational leaders to translate business priorities into effective people strategies.
• Lead workforce planning and organisational design initiatives across multiple sites.
• Provide strategic HR guidance to support operational performance and business growth.
• Drive key people projects, ensuring delivery of practical and sustainable outcomes.
• Analyse workforce, headcount and people data to inform decision-making and future planning.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders on budgeting, forecasting and resource planning.
• Lead talent, succession, capability and retention initiatives.
• Coach, influence and challenge senior stakeholders to drive positive organisational outcomes.
• Support organisational change and transformation programmes.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership teams, balancing commercial objectives with people priorities.

About You

You will be an experienced HR professional with the confidence, credibility and gravitas to operate effectively at senior leadership level.

Essential Experience

• Significant experience operating as a Senior HR Business Partner within a complex, fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability to influence, coach and challenge senior leaders.
• Strong strategic business partnering capability.
• Experience leading organisational design, workforce planning and change initiatives.
• Excellent commercial awareness and ability to align people strategies with business objectives.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using workforce and headcount data to influence decision-making.
• Demonstrable success delivering business-critical HR projects.
• Ability to build credibility and trusted relationships quickly across multiple stakeholder groups.

Desirable Experience

• Background within logistics, distribution, manufacturing, supply chain or FMCG environments.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent senior-level HR experience.

What Success Looks Like

• Establishing credibility and becoming a trusted partner to the leadership team quickly.
• Providing strategic people insights that support operational and commercial objectives.
• Delivering measurable progress against key people projects.
• Strengthening workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and talent capability.
• Coaching and influencing senior stakeholders to achieve sustainable business outcomes.

Why Apply?

• Opportunity to make an immediate impact within a complex operational business.
• Exposure to senior leadership and strategic decision-making.
• Challenging and rewarding interim assignment.
• Competitive daily rate.
• Chance to lead meaningful people and organisational initiatives.

If you are a strategic HR leader with strong coaching, influencing and stakeholder management skills, and you thrive in fast-paced operational environments, we'd love to hear from you.

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