Novus Property Solutions Hiring for HR Business Partner at Bathgate Full Time

Novus Property Solutions is a dynamic, award winning property maintenance, refurbishment and new build specialist with excess of 750 staff in 26 Locations/operations across the UK, providing a combination of local knowledge and national strength. We are a social and environmentally responsible family run business with a rich 124-year heritage, delivering a range of bespoke services and solutions to a wide variety of clients.

We are currently seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to work alongside our operational teams. As one of two HR Business Partners, supported by a wider People team based in our Head Office in Stoke on Trent, you will have the benefit of being part of a team with ambitious plans.

The role will be home based and will support offices from Scotlland through the North West, North East and North Wales, therefore a Scotland/Northern England home location would be advantageous.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company Car/Car Allowance

Pension

Discounted Private Medical Insurance

24 Days Hols (plus Bank Holidays) with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days

Summary – HR Business Partner

You will provide strategic and operational value, support and guidance to the business line, you will be engaged upon, partnering with management and operational teams across the full HR remit including:

Workforce Planning

Succession Planning

Employee Engagement

Progressive Employee Relations including Absence Management

People Development

Main Responsibilities – HR Business Partner

Partnering with their business area to execute people plans linked to the overall business strategy and objectives

Coach and build the capability of senior managers to anticipate and pre-empt organisational issues

Support line managers in driving a performance culture through facilitating talent assessments and succession planning meetings.

Actively participates in business planning to ensure robust people plans are in place, including, talent, succession, restructures, and workforce planning.

Working alongside senior managers, identifies high potential colleagues for development, agrees development plans linked to future strategic plans and working alongside the Training Manager and line manager, identifies and ensures the delivery of development solutions

Works with senior managers to foster and promote colleague engagement at all levels by formulating structured, measurable, results focused engagement action plans

Partners with HR leads from other business areas to identify opportunities for development and progression

Responds positively and with pace to performance issues within the business area, supporting and coaching people leaders to act appropriately

Drives a consistent approach and supports and guides managers through people processes and ER cases

Identifies gaps and risk in resource and organisational structures and recommends options to address highlighted issues

Working with the Resourcing team, plan and execute appropriate recruitment campaigns to ensure the attraction of high calibre candidates, whilst supporting senior managers through the interview and offer process.

Acts as the performance improvement driver and provokes positive changes

Agrees short, medium and long-term plans for change and leads / facilitates delivery as appropriate

Partners with other areas of the business to deliver HR projects

Contributes to the development of policies and processes and proactively supports the delivery of HR policy and process into and across the business.

Skills/Experience

Understanding experience of working in a true HR Business Partnering way.

Significant employee relations experience gained within a blue collar workforce

Must be prepared to work remotely in multi-site national locations

Current Employment Law knowledge

Strong Stakeholder management skills

Talent Management and succession planning experience

Commercially astute

Date/ Evidence and Insights driven

Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)

Applications are welcomed from all as we are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We are a socially and environmentally responsible national building and maintenance company.

Please note that we do not require recruitment agency support with this role and speculative CVs will be treated as a direct application