HR Business Partner

The Vacancy

🚀 Ready to Shape the Future of People Strategy?

Join WPS as an HR Business Partner and become a driving force behind our people-first mission. If you’re a confident HR generalist with a passion for making a real impact, this is your chance to thrive in a fast-paced, purpose-led environment.

📍 Location: Ideally based in London or Birmingham
🏢 Division: Facilities Management
🌍 On-site Presence: Finsbury Park, Redditch, and Manchester (3 days/week)

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💼 What You’ll Be Doing

As our HR Business Partner, you’ll be at the heart of our national operations, partnering with operational leaders to deliver strategic people solutions that boost performance and support our business goals. You’ll also lead or contribute to exciting people projects across WPS, backed by our expert central HR teams.

Your mission includes:

• 🤝 Coaching & Support: Empower managers to lead and inspire their teams.
• 📜 Compliance & Governance: Champion consistent, high-performing HR practices.
• 🌱 Talent & Development: Shape career pathways and succession plans.
• 🔄 Change Management: Steer people-focused change initiatives.
• 💬 Employee Relations: Foster positive engagement across teams.
• 💰 Performance & Reward: Support salary reviews and performance cycles.

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🎯 What We’re Looking For

We’re seeking someone who’s:

• 🎓 A graduate (CIPD Level 5 preferred)
• 🧠 Experienced in generalist HR, ideally in multi-site or operational settings
• 📚 Knowledgeable in employment law and HR best practices
• 🗣️ A confident communicator and coach, credible with senior leaders
• 💡 Commercially savvy with a people-first mindset
• 🔧 Proactive, hands-on, and solutions-focused
• 🏘️ Bonus: Experience in facilities management, housing, or field-based operations

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🌟 Why WPS?

At WPS, you won’t just be part of a team—you’ll help shape it. We’re committed to creating a workplace where people thrive, ideas flourish, and careers grow. If you’re ready to take your HR career to the next level, we’d love to hear from you.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

📩 Once you apply one of the Recruitment Team will then be in contact to discuss the role in more detail and advise of next steps.

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.