People Business Partner

7 days ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Low Carbon Contracts Company Full time £50,000 - £80,000 per year
People Business Partner

Application Deadline: 16 November 2025

Department: People Team

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Birmingham/Leeds

Description

Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5

Salary: circa GBP 63k depending on experience

Location: Birmingham or Leeds city centre

WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week

Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.

Reports to: Head of People Partnering & Operations
Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.

Role Summary:Here at Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) the People Business Partner (PBP) is responsible for partnering with one or more Executive Directors, and their leadership teams, to drive business outcomes through people. You will be adept at managing stakeholder relationships and juggling multiple priorities; striking the right balance between support and challenge in order to drive positive change.

The PBP will report into the Head of People Partnering & Operations working closely with the centres of excellence within the People Team, to attract, develop, engage and retain the talent and capabilities needed to accelerate the delivery of Net Zero.

Success in the role will require a data-driven approach and proven experience in effective management of employee relations and organisational change.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage Employee Relations cases, including absence, performance, disciplinary, grievance, and investigations, supported by the People Advisor.
  • Coordinate cyclical people activities, including workforce planning, performance and reward cycles, and engagement, in partnership with Talent Acquisition ( TA) and Learning & Development (L&D)
  • Maintain oversight of policies, procedures, and processes, ensuring legal compliance, market best practice, and alignment with organisational culture.
  • Support People Operations in embedding robust frameworks and processes to drive consistency, compliance, and fairness.
  • Use people data to inform priorities, measure impact, and demonstrate value of People initiatives.
  • Lead organisational design reviews, functional alignment, and role evaluations.
Attract:
  • Partner with the TA team to drive advocacy for our employer brand and talent opportunities.
Engage
  • Support embedding organisational values, ensuring clarity of expectations and a fair, consistent culture.
  • Partner with Internal Communications to review engagement insights, facilitate follow-up sessions, and support leaders in creating and delivering engagement action plans.
  • Ensure all people practices are viewed through a DEI lens to maintain a positive and inclusive culture.
Develop:
  • Partner with (L&D) to understand development needs, build line manager capability, and identify and retain high-potential talent.
  • Support the design and facilitation of targeted capability-building training programs.
  • Contribute to building and maintaining a strong succession pipeline for critical roles.
  • Drive a high-performance culture through effective feedback, talent development, and robust management of underperformance and behaviour misalignment with values.
Rewards and Recognition
  • Support the Rewards Partner and business leaders to ensure fair and competitive pay decisions that support equity, talent attraction and retention, and reward the right behaviours.
  • Champion and embed a culture of ongoing recognition that drives engagement, supports retention and aligns with organisational values
Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Essential

• Experience operating as a strategic Business Partner in a fast pace paced, scaling environment

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, able to balance support and challenge

• Excellent communication, problem- solving and decision making capability

• Proven Employee Relations case management experience with solid knowledge of current employment legislation

• Experience supporting with with Organisational design and change management initiatives

• Commercial mindset with a strong focus on delivery and results

• Understanding of learning, development and talent management approaches

• Ability to use people data to generate insights and demonstrate value/ROI.

Desirable

• Coaching qualification

• TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment) regulations

Employee Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn't rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:
  • Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
  • 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
  • Up to 8% pension contribution
  • Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
  • Employee referral scheme (up to GBP 1500), and colleague recognition scheme
  • Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
  • Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
  • Three paid volunteering days a year
  • Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
  • Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
  • Employee resource groups

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