People Business Partner

At Ian Williams, our mission is “To be loved by our customers and employers”, and as People Business Partner, you have the opportunity and responsibility to uphold the mission, and play a pivotal role in setting the cultural tone of Ian Williams.

A People Business Partner is a new role within the business, making this an exciting opportunity for you to define your role, with the support of the People management and team.

Working in partnership with the operational business, providing coaching and guidance on a range of people management activities you will drive their people plans and strategic aims and objectives. We want you to have the opportunity to be part of shaping and enhancing our culture, along with our values and objectives.

Reporting to the HR Manager, you'll support our business areas, nationally. This role is based in our Head Office, Chipping Sodbury, however it has responsibility for supporting the group on-site and remotely, therefore will require some travel.

**Benefits**:

- Be part of our company profit share scheme
- Car Allowance of £7000 OR Company car, both including a private mileage scheme and fuel card
- Let us help you prepare for your future with an employer pension contribution
- 23 days annual leave, buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
- We want our employees to have a well balanced work/ life balance, therefore flexible working patterns would be considered.
- Access to an employee assistance program to support employee’s health and wellbeing

**The People Business Partner role**
- Collaborating with the People Team, to support the integration and implementation of the People plan, ensuring a proactive approach to driving and embedding the solution
- Actively coach and develop our managers’ HR and cultural competency and knowledge in relation to employee relations activities, empowering and building confidence in the practicalities of our people-focussed policies and processes
- Design, implement and embed the EDI strategy, to strengthen and develop the businesses commitment to EDI
- Partner with Learning and Development to design and deliver training and coaching for our HR community and business leaders
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure resourcing requirements are met, aligned with the business needs to deliver
- Ensure timely and effective management of people issues including disciplinary and grievance cases, performance management, absence management and wellbeing
- Support management in ensuring we treat everyone fairly and with respect, with open and honest communication channels, turning our culture vision into tangible actions
- Analysing insight and translating data into effective and commercially focused evidence-based people solutions to influence strategic and leadership action
- Undertake projects as and when required, focused on people-based solutions

**What will you bring as a People Business Partner?**
- You would describe yourself as pragmatic, a strong listener, reasonable with the ability to engage and secure buy in and understanding from Operations
- Your experience has been working within an HR function, where you can demonstrate a sound knowledge and level of expertise of employee relations and people-based issues, having a strategic impact on HR within the business, to deliver commercially sound solutions, through influence, collaboration and creating open communication channels.
- As a business going through growth and change, you bring experience of working in a fast-paced environment, balancing a varied and high-volume workload
- You not only describe yourself as a “people” person, but you also can analyse data and translate into actionable insights
- A team player - you enjoy building positive and open relationships with the ability to work in a team environment and with many stakeholders
- Proficient in various IT systems including Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook

**Additional Benefits include**:

- Annual pay reviews
- Medical and life insurance
- Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay
- Training and development opportunities
- Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
- Specsavers vouchers
- For information on all other additional benefits we do, to enhance your work/life balance please visit our website

**About Ian Williams**

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**Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is more than a commitment at Ian Williams—it is the foundation of what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different.