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People Business Partner

Biffa
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senior full-time Leicester, England

First indexed 4 Jul 2026

Description

The People Business Partner acts as a strategic advisor to senior leaders, delivering the people agenda that supports business growth and operational efficiency.

Your core responsibilities:

  • Partner with senior leaders to design and implement the People Strategy to enhance business performance.
  • Drive the talent agenda to deliver tangible outputs through retention, promotion, and succession planning.
  • Use people data and insight to influence decision-making and drive measurable outcomes and benefits to the business.
  • Lead complex change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and alignment with business goals.
  • Manage relationships with Trade Unions, planning and managing regular interactions.
  • Develop and implement initiatives that enhance the overall employee experience, ensuring a high-performing, engaged, and motivated workforce.

Essential requirements:

  • Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand financial performance and translate business objectives into effective People strategies.
  • Experience managing business change, including redundancy and TUPE projects.
  • Experience of collective grievance and working with Trade Union Officers.
  • Proactively identifies business risk and opportunity.
  • Strong analytical mindset, with experience using People data and metrics to drive decision-making.
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