People Business Partner
M Group Water
Date: 9 hours ago
City: Batley, England
Contract type: Full time
Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
What will you be doing?
As a People Partner, you’ll be aligned to a specific division within M Group, working closely with business leaders to tackle key talent challenges and opportunities. You’ll be instrumental in delivering a positive, inclusive workplace culture and ensuring our people strategies align with business goals.
You’ll collaborate with Centres of Excellence (CoEs) across Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Employee Relations, Reward, and Shared Services to:
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
What will you be doing?
As a People Partner, you’ll be aligned to a specific division within M Group, working closely with business leaders to tackle key talent challenges and opportunities. You’ll be instrumental in delivering a positive, inclusive workplace culture and ensuring our people strategies align with business goals.
You’ll collaborate with Centres of Excellence (CoEs) across Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Employee Relations, Reward, and Shared Services to:
- Design and implement effective organisational structures
- Build a future-ready, stable workforce
- Champion employee engagement and wellbeing
- Support TUPE, M&A, and integration activities
- Use data insights to drive strategic decisions
- Develop and deliver divisional people plans aligned with business priorities
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to create strategic workforce plans
- Drive leadership development and succession planning
- Coach leaders and managers to build organisational capability
- Lead on performance management and reward strategies
- Share best practices and contribute to continuous improvement
- Proven experience in a People Partner or HR Generalist role
- Strong understanding of TUPE (inbound and outbound)
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- High attention to detail and strong analytical mindset
- Resilient, adaptable, and collaborative approach
- CIPD qualified or equivalent HR experience
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
#MGroupW INDREG
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