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HR Business Partner

MacGregor Blackleicester, england🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 24 Aug 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
£65k/yr
Seniority
Leader
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
leicester, england, United Kingdom
Employee EngagementEmployee RelationsLearning & DevelopmentSuccession PlanningTalent AcquisitionWorkforce Planning

Job Description

Do you have experience partnering with operational leaders in a fast-paced, commercially driven environment?


Can you demonstrate strong experience managing complex employee relations, organisational change and performance?


Are you a credible and pragmatic HR professional who can build trusted relationships across all levels of a business?


MacGregor Black are partnering with a leading global logistics organisation on the search for an HR Business Partner . This is a permanent role based in Leicester.


Working closely with operational leaders, you will deliver a commercially focused people agenda across a complex and fast-moving business area.

You will provide end-to-end HR support while contributing to wider projects across employee engagement, organisational change, talent, performance and workforce planning. This role requires someone equally comfortable managing day-to-day operational priorities and influencing longer-term people decisions.


Key Responsibilities:


  • Partner with operational leaders to develop and deliver effective people plans.
  • Provide commercially focused advice across employee relations, performance, absence and organisational change.
  • Lead complex ER cases, investigations and formal processes.
  • Coach managers to improve leadership capability and people-management confidence.
  • Support workforce planning, talent reviews and succession planning.
  • Analyse people data to identify trends, risks and opportunities.
  • Lead and contribute to HR projects, including engagement and change initiatives.
  • Work closely with HR Shared Services, Talent Acquisition, Reward and Learning & Development.
  • Ensure HR policies and processes are applied consistently and in line with employment legislation.


What Are We Looking For:


  • Proven experience operating as an HR Business Partner within a fast-paced operational environment.
  • Strong employee relations and employment law knowledge.
  • Experience supporting organisational change and transformation.
  • Confident coaching and influencing senior operational stakeholders.
  • Commercially minded, resilient and comfortable working at pace.
  • Experience within logistics, distribution, manufacturing, retail operations or a similarly complex environment would be advantageous.
  • CIPD qualified or possessing equivalent professional experience.


£65,000 + Benefits


For more information, please contact Alice Redmond.

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