HR Business Partner

The Vacancy

✨ HR Business Partner – Midlands (WPS)

📍 Location: Midlands (regional remit) 📍
🏗️ Business: WPS (part of Wates Group) 🏗️

Make a real impact where people and performance meet 🚀

We’re looking for a credible, commercially minded HR Business Partner to support leaders across our WPS business in the Midlands. You’ll coach and challenge senior managers, drive people initiatives end‑to‑end, and ensure governance and consistency in a geographically dispersed environment — all while helping us build a high‑performance, inclusive culture.

What you’ll do 🔧

• Lead the salary & bonus review cycle with Group Reward 💷
• Coach leaders to develop, motivate and grow their teams 🤝
• Ensure strong governance, compliance & people processes ✔️
• Provide clear, timely MI to support planning and change 📊
• Support and deliver change programmes aligned to our values 🔄
• Build recruitment plans that balance internal mobility & D&I 🎯
• Drive talent & succession activity across the business 🌱
• Partner with L&D to build capability through targeted interventions 📚
• Champion effective performance management 🧭
• Resolve ER cases promptly and improve engagement across teams 💬

What you’ll bring 🌟

• Strong HR partnering experience in a fast‑paced, dispersed environment
• Solid knowledge of UK employment law ⚖️
• Excellent coaching, influencing & communication skills
• Commercially minded with strong problem‑solving ability
• CIPD Level 5+ or equivalent qualification 🎓
• Experience managing a small team (2–4) desirable 👥

Why join us? 💚

Work closely with leaders, influence business performance, and partner with Centres of Excellence across the wider Group. Be part of a supportive, values‑driven team committed to Zero Harm and continuous improvement.

Ready to Apply?

If you’re excited to bring your HR expertise to a high‑energy new contract, apply now (and please notify your line manager before applying!).

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.